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body robust and rather more elongate than in that species; dor- 

 sal outline more arched than ventral: depth 2 to 2.3. head 2.6 

 to 2.9 in length. Mouth large, oblique, maxillary reaching con- 

 siderably past front of orbit. 2.6 to 2.9 in head; jaws about 

 equal; supplemental maxillary well developed; teeth present 

 on vomers and palatines; lower pharyngeals narrow, the teeth 

 rather bluntly pointed; eye small. 3.S to 4.3 in head; opercle 

 produced backward and rather sharply rounded behind, trian- 

 gular; gill-rakers well developed, rather stiff and rough. Dor- 

 sal X, 11 or 12. the spines low, l)ut slightly longer than from 

 snout to eye in young specimens, 2.2 to 2.7 in head; anal HI, 9 

 or 10; pectorals short, 1.3 to 1.4 in head; ventrals reaching a 

 little past vent. Scales 6 or 7. 43-45, 14 or 15, those ou cheeks 

 small, in 6 to 8 rows. Color in life not very well known; in 

 spirits dusky olive, mottled with darker, the general appear- 

 ance very much as in E. (/ibbosiis; fin-membranes dusky, with 

 darker tessellations behind on soft dorsal and anal and near 

 base of caudal; opercular spot l)lack, the margin paler, with 

 some red or coppery behind in life. 



Known in this state from two young specimens, 2 and 3i 

 inches in length respectively, taken in Crooked Creek, near 

 La Harpe, Illinois, in May, 1900. These specimens form the 

 basis of the present description. 



Lepomis fti/DuiicfrirHs Forbes. 



Apoinotissytniiictriiiii, Jordan &■ Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No, 47, p. ggS. 



Not taken in Illinois since 18S3, when it was described by 

 Professor Forbes from specimens taken in the Illinois River at 

 Pekin. Found only sparingly, chiefly in the southern por- 

 tion of the state, especially the Wabash valley. 



It has not been observed that the pharyngeals of this fish 

 suggest affinities with the genus Eiiiioiiiiitis as hitherto sup- 

 posed. 

 Lepomis 1)1 ill idf IIS Jordan. 



Lepomis miniatus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.,Nu. 47, p. 1002. 

 Lep07nis garmani, Forbes, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., Vol. I!., Art. II., p. 135. — 

 Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, p. 1002. 



Specimens which I now refer to this species were de- 



