84. CENTRAECniD^ LEPOMIS. 475 



740. Li. iiiai^i'orJiirus Kaf. 



Blight steel-blue, with maiij' 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 

 and slender, strongly toothed, 11 developed. Supplemental bone minute. 

 About 7 rows of scales on cheeks. Head 3; depth 2 J. D. X, 12; A. 

 HI, 10; scales about G-42-15. L. 5 inches. Ohio Valley; a small, 

 handsome species. 



(Eaf. Jouru. dc Physique 1819, 420; Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2, 239: Lepomis ncpliehis 

 Cope, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 18o8, 222.) 



741. L.. i»ystac:tlis Cope. 



Body deep, compressed. Eye large, 3J- 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 

 band from mouth across preopercle, a dark line below this, then a silvery 

 band; lower parts and most of vertical fins yellow. Head Sj; depth. 

 2. D. X, 12 ; A. Ill, 12; scales 7-51-15. East Florida. {Cope.) 



(Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 18; 7, CG.) 



742. L,. cSoH^atus (Holbr.) Gill Sc Jor. 



Body rather elongate, compressed. Front steep. Caudal peduncle 



long. Maxillary extending to front of eye. Eye large, 3J in head. 



Scales on cheek in G rows. Opercular flap moderate. Fins high, the 



longest dorsal fin as long as snout and eye. Dusky 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 2% ; depth 2.J. D. X, 11; A. HI, 9. L. 4 inches. South Carolina 



to Florida. {Holbroolc.) 



(Pomotis clonfjatm Ilolbr. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 47: Fomolis dongatua 

 Giiutber,i, 2()2 : ^ Lejiomis ophlkabnicus Coi)c, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 18G8, 224.) 



74'J. Li. inurimus (Grd.) McKay. 



Body elongate, somewhat compressed, the form precisely as in L. cya- 

 nellus. Mouth rather large; maxillary about reaching front of eyej 



