84. CENTRARCHID^ LEPOMIS. 473 
a. Pharyngeal teeth all or nearly all slender, acute; lower pharyngeals narrow, the 
teeth mostly conic. 
h. Supplemental maxillary evident ; pahatine teeth present ; gill-rakers stilf and 
rather long. {Apomotis* Rafinesque.) 
736. Li. cvaiaeUHS Eaf. — Bed-eye; Blue- spotted Sun- fish. 
Body obloug, rather elongate, becoming short and deep with age ; 
moderately compressed. Head large, with projecting snont. Mouth 
rather large, the maxillary broad and flat, with a small supplemental 
bone, reaching nearly to the middle of the eye ; lower jaw projecting. 
Dorsal spines quite low, the highest scarcely longer than snont (in the 
adult, longer in young). Scales small. Opercular spot small, less than 
eye, broadly margined, the black confined to the bony part. Pectoral 
short, not reaching anal. Color variable, the prevailing shade green, 
with a strong brassy lustre on sides, which becomes nearly yellow below ; 
each scale usually with a sky-blue spot and more or less of gilt edging, 
giving an appearance of pale lateral streaks; besides these marks, dusky 
or obscure vertical bars are often present, and the sides are sprinkled 
with dark dots ; vertical fins marked with blue or green, the anal usually 
edged in front with pale orange; usually a consincuous black spot on 
posterior base of dorsal and anal, these often obsolete ; iris red ; cheeks 
with narrow blue stripes. Scales on cheeks in 8 rows. Head 3 ; depth 
2^. D. X, 11; A. Ill, 9; Lat. 1. about 48 L. 7 inches. Very variable. 
Great Lake region to Mexico ; very abundant south westward ; ascend- 
ing smidl brooks. 
(Raf. Journ. de Physique, 1819, 420 : Ictlielis melanops Raf. Ichtli. Oh. 1820, 28: Cal- 
liurus longuliis, dlaphanus, formosus, and microps Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish, 
and U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 1859 : Bryttus signifer Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. 
Fish. 20 : Bryttus longulus Gunther, i, 260 : Lepomis microps, mineopas, and melanops 
Coije, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868 223,224: Apomotis cyanellus Jordan, Man. 
Vert. E. U. S. ed. 2, 239.) 
737. L.. sy BBianetracus Forbes, sp. nov. 
Color dark, most scales with a vertical dark bar at base; cheeks mot- 
tled, not striped ; sides with about 10 vertical bars, widest forward ; 
pectoral fins pale; ventrals dusky in the male; dorsal fin in the female 
with a dark ocellated spot on its last ray. Body short, deej), with reg- 
ular outlines. Mouth moderate, the lower jaw longest, the maxillary 
reaching the front of the piqul ; supplemental maxillary present. Pala- 
tine teeth iiresent ; phar^ ugeal teeth rather blunt. Gill-rakers stilf and 
long. Cheeks with 7 rows of scales. Opercular angle not prolonged, 
* Rufinesqne, Journ. de Physique, etc., 1819, 420 : type Lepomis cyanellus Raf. ; a, 
primitive; TTcOyU a, operculum; ou?, ear =Tt'Zipo»tis Raf. 1820. 
