84. CENTRARCHIDiE LEPOMIS. 
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Lt. maca’OcEiirus Raf. 
Bright steel-blue, with many bronze orange spots, which cover nearly 
the whole surface, so arranged that the ground color forms a series of 
vertical chain-like bars, very conspicuous in life ; vertical fins mottled 
with bronze and usually more or less edged with pale orange ; sometimes 
a faint black dorsal spot; no distinct blue stripes on cheek, but the 
sides of the head shaded with purplish. Opercular flap small, black, 
margined with pale. Body rather elongate, the head somewhat acute. 
Pectoral fins reaching beyond ventrals to anal. Gill-rakers rather long 
ami slender, strongly toothed, 11 developed. Supplemental bone minute. 
About 7 rows of scales on cheeks. Head 3; depth 2^. H. X, 12; A. 
Ill, 10; scales about G-12-15. L. 5 inches. Ohio Yalley; a small, 
handsome species. 
(Raf. Joum. de Physique 1819, 420; Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 239: Lepomis nephelus 
Cope, Journ. Acad!. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868, 222.) 
741. Li. inyslacalis Cope. 
Body deep, compressed. Eye large, 3^ in head. Dorsal spines 
robust, little shorter than the soft rays; paired fins long; maxillary 
extending somewhat beyond front of orbit; four rows of scales on 
cheeks; opercular spot short without border. Gill-rakers slender. 
Dusky, sides silvery, with irregular, short, dark vertical bars ; a pale 
baud from mouth'across preopercle, a dark line below this, then a silvery 
baud; lower parts and most of vertical fins yellow. Head 3|; depth 
2. D. X, 12; A. HI, 12; scales 7-51-15. East Florida. {Cope.) 
(Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 18'i7, 66.) 
742. Li. eloHgatias (Holbr.) Gill & Jor. 
Body rather elongate, compressed. Front steep. Caudal peduncle 
long. jMaxillary extending to front of eye. Eye large, 3| in head. 
Scales on cheek in 6 rows. Opercular flap moderate. Fins high, the 
longest dorsal fin as long as snout and eye. Dnsky above, yellowish 
below, with faint dark vertical bars on the sides, and a dark blotch on 
the tail behind the dorsal fin; cheeks with pale bluish lines; fins plain. 
Head 2f; depth 2 J. D. X, 11; A. HI, 9. L. 4 inches. South Carolina 
to Florida. {HoJbroolc.) 
(Pomotis elongatus Holhr. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 47: Pomotls clongatus 
Giiuther, i, 262: ^Lepomis ophthalmicus Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1888, 224.) 
743. Li. muraaans (Grd.) McKay. 
Body elongate, somewhat compressed, the form precisely as in L. cya- 
nellus. Month rather large; maxillary about reaching front of eye; 
