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 Tahle of measurements — Continued. 



Dimensions. 



Head: 



Leugtli of mandible 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout ^ 



Lengtli of base 



Greatest heijil.t at fifth sjiine 



Hciglit at lirst spine 



Dorsal (soft) : 



Lengtli of base 



Height at antecedent spine 



Height at longest ray (the seventh) 

 Anal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Height at first spine 



Height at third spine 



Height at longest ray (the fifth) 



Caudal : 



Length of external rays 



Pectoral: 



Distance Irom snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Brauchiostegals 



Doisal 



Inches and 



lOOths. 



Anal 



Nuiuhi^r of scales in lateral lino 



Numl)er of transverse rows above lateral line 

 dumber of transverse rows below lateral line 



X,ll 

 111,10 



lOOths of 

 length. 



12? 

 () 



3fi 

 20 



17| 



8A 



17" 



57 

 20 



lo' 



IH 



31 



20J- 



38* 



17" 



6 



14-15 



"Perca gibbosa. P. 



P. 15. Y. 6. A. 13. C. 17. 



Be Geer:^ (p. 283.) 



28. Lepomis gibbosus (L.) McKay. 



lu the llttle-kiiown eleventh or Halle editiou of the Systema jSTaturie 

 of Linnaeus, occur the following descriptions : 



" Labrus auritus. L. cauda bifida, opercu- 

 lis branchiarura pinnifor- 

 niibus. D. 



Habitat in Philadelphia. Mtis. 



pinnis dorsalibus uni- 

 tis, Cauda bifida, abdo- 

 m i n e luteo, operculio 

 striatis, apice nigro ful- 

 voque. 



(Jatesh. car. 2. p. 8. t. 8. 

 f. 3. Perca iluviatilis gib- 

 bosa, ventre luteo. 

 Habitat in America." (p. 293.) 



The description of Ferca gihhosa refers of course to Eupomotis aureu^ 

 of authors, and the specific name of gibbosus must supersede aureits 

 Walbaum 1 792. In his twelfth editiou Linnaeus suppressed his Ferca 

 gibbosa, and referred Catesby's figure of Ferca fnviatilis gibbosa with 

 doubt, to the Labrus auritus. The description in the twelfth edition, as 

 Professor Gill has shown, can refer only to L. auritus. The specific 



