84. CENTKARCHID^ ENNEACANTHUS. 
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730. A. pomotis (Baird) Gill. — Mud Sun-fish. 
Body oblong, moderately compressed. Snout short. Month wide, 
the gape short; the maxillary reaching liosterior part of orbit. Eye not 
very large, 3^ to 4 in head. Cheeks with about 5 rows of scales. Dor- 
sal spines low ; the longest about as long as from snout to middle of 
pupil. Color very dark greenish ; body usually with five rather indis- 
tinct blackish longitudinal bands along the sides ; cheeks with dark 
bands, which run nearly parallel, the lowest passing across the maxillary 
around the front part of the lower jaw. Fins plain dusky. A black 
opercular spot. Head 2| ; depth 2. D. XI, 10; A. V, 10; scales 6-43-12. 
L. 4 inches. Southern X ew York to South Carolina, in sluggish streams 
near the coast. 
{Centrarchus pomotis Baird, 9th Smithson. Eep. 1854, 325; Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 
2, 237 : Centrarchus pomotis, Gunther, i, 25(i. ) 
248.— ENIVEACAWTHUS Gill 
Hemioplites Cope: Copelandia Jordan.) 
(Gill, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts. 1864, 92: type Pomotis ohestis Grd.) 
Body rather short and deep, compressed. Mouth small ; the supple- 
mental maxillary bone well develoiied. Teeth on vomer and palatines, 
none on the tongue. Opercle ending behind in two flat points, with a 
dermal border. Preopercle entire. Scales rather large, the lateral 
line sometimes interrupted. Dorsal flu continuous, normally with 9 
spines ; anal fin smaller than the dorsal, with 3 spines ; caudal fin con- 
vex behind. Branchiostegals G. Species of small size and bright color- 
ation. Abnormal variations in the number of dorsal and anal spines 
have given rise to the nominal genera Hemioplites and Copelandia. 
(eleven, nine ; axavOa^ SpiuC.) 
731. E. eriai’cBiMS (Jordan) McKay. 
Body rather elongate, the profile forming a nearly uniform curve. 
Eye large, 3 in head. Mouth moderate, maxillary reaching slightly 
beyond front of pupil ; its supplemental bone well developed. Scales 
on cheek in about 3 rows. Soft dorsal high, its longest rays equal to 
distance from snout to front of opercle ; anal fin very large, with strong 
spines. Pectorals reaching beyond anal spines ; ventral spines reaching 
anal. Lateral line incomplete. Olivaceous; vertical fins with round 
(blue*?) spots. Head2f; depth 2^. D. X, 9; A. IV, 8; scales 4-33-10. 
L. 3 inches. Menomonee Eiver, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; but one speci- 
men preserved. It is probably an Enneacantlms with an abnormal in- 
