57. roMOxis. 261 



head 3^. Caudalis rounded. Olive-brown : head, body, dorsal and 

 anal fins with numerous golden spots ; a black blotch at the root of 

 the caudal fin. (Holhr.) 



Cooper River ; South Carolina ; Georgia. 



57. POMOTIS*. 



Pomotis, Cm: Regne Anim. ; Cur. Sf Vul. iii. p. 90. 



Six branchiostegals. All the teeth villiform, without canines ; teeth 

 neither on the palatines nor on the tongue. One dorsal, with ten, 

 rarely with nine or eleven spines ; the anal fin with three spines. 

 Operculum with a rounded, nn^mbranaceous, coloured lobe above 

 the angle ; prajopercidura entire or minutely orenulated. Scales 

 moderate. Air-bladder large, subdivided posteriorly into two hornSx 

 Pyloric appendages in small number (fi-8). 



Fresh waters of the Nearctic region. 



1. Pomotis auritus, 



Labrus auritus, L. Gin. p. 1286; £1. Sclm. p. 246; Shaw, Zool. iv. 



p. 4S2. 

 Perea gibbosa, Cateshy, t. 8. f. 3. 

 Pomotis vidgaris, Ciw. ?f Vol. iii. p. 91. pi. 49, vii. p. 465 ; Richards. 



Faun. Bar. Amer. p. 24. pi. 76 ; Kirtland in Bost. Journ. iii. p. 470. 



pi. 28. f. 2 ; Cut. Rkgne Anim. 111. Poiss. pi. 10. f. 3 ; Dekay, New York 



Fauna, Fish. p. 31. pi. 51. f. 166 ; Hvlbr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 6. pi. 1. f.2. 



D. j^^. A. l^. L. lat. 33-34. L. transv. ^^. Vert. 14/16. 

 Caec, pylor. 6-8. 



The height of the body is 2| in the total length, the length of the 

 head 3| ; the diameter of the eye is one-fourth of the latter, or two- 

 thirds of the distance between the eyes. Praeoperculum sUghtly 

 serrated ; caudal fin slightlj- notched, wdth rounded lobes. The 

 length of the third dorsal spine 2| or three times in the length of the 



* 1. Pomotis t«tracanthu8, Ciiv. 4' Val. iii. p. 94. — Buenos Ajres. 



2. ravenelii, Cui>. £f Val. vii. p. 465. — N. America. 



3. holbrookii, Cuv. cf Val. vii. p. 466. — Charleston. 



4. incisor, Cuv. # Val. vii. p. 466 ; Holbr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 13. pi. 2. 



f. 1. — New Orleans, S. Carolina. 



5. gibbosus, Cup. (|- Val. vii. p. 467. — Charleston. 



6. solis, Cuv. ^- Val. vii. p. 468. — Lake Pont Chartrain. 



7. catesbyi, Cuv. cf- Val. vii. p. 469. — Pliiladelphia. 



8. brevieeps, Baird # Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat Sei. Philad. 1853, p. 390, 



and in Marci/'s E.vplor. Bed River, Zool. p. 246. pi. 13, and in 

 U.S. Pucif. R. R. Exp. Fish. p. 28.— Bed Eiver. 

 9. Labrus appendix, Mitch. Suppl. Mem. Amer. Monthly Mag. ii. p. 247. — 

 Pomotis appendix. Dekay, New York Fauna, p. 32. — N. America. 



10. Pomotis nitidus, K/rtl. Bost. Joxcrn. iii. p. 472. pi. 28. f. 1. — Oliio. 



11. luna, Gir. U. S. Pacif. R. R. Eipcd. Fish. p. 22. pi. 8. f. 1-4.— U. S. 



12. aquilensis, Baird cf- Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1853. p. 387, 



and U. S. Pacif. R. R. F^-pcd. Fish. p. 25. pi. 9. f. 1-4, pi. 10. 

 f. 8-11.— P. nolastus, Baird .^ Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 

 1854, p. 24.— P. popcii, Girard, U. S. Pacif. R. R. Krp. Fish. p. 26. 



