57. POMOTis. 261 



head 3|. Caudalis rounded. Olive-brcJwn : head, body, dorsal and 

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

 the caudal fin. (Holbr.) 



Cooper Elver ; South Carolina ; Georgia. 



57. POMOTIS*. 



Pomotis, Cuv. Hegne Anim. ; Cuv. ^ Val. iii. p. 90. 



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

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

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

 Operculum with a rounded, membranaceous, coloured lobe above 

 the angle ; praeoperculum entire or minutely crenulated. Scales 

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

 Pyloric appendages in small number (6-8). 



Fresh waters of the Nearctic region. 



1. Pomotis auritus. 



Labrus auritus, L. Gm. p. 1286; Bl. Schn. p. 246; Shaw, Zool, iv. 



p. 482. 

 Perca ^bbosa, Catesby, t. 8. f. 3. 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Cuv. Sf Val. iii. p. 91. pi. 49, vii. p. 465 ; Richards. 



Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 24. pi. 76 ; Kirtland in Bost. Jcnirn. iii. p. 470. 



?1. 28. f. 2 ; Cuv. Eigne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 10. f. 3 ; Dekay, New York 

 ^auna, Fish. p. 31. pi. 51. f. 166 ; Holhr. Ichth. S. Carol, p. 6. pi. 1. f. 2. 



D. j^2- ^' To' ^- 1^*- ^^-^^- ^- ^^^^^^' Tizn- 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-foui'th of the latter, or two- 

 thirds of the distance between the eyes. Praeoperculum slightly 

 serrated; caudal fin slightly notched, with rounded lobes. The 

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



* 1. Pomotis tetracanthuB, Cuv. ^ Val. iii. p. 94. — Buenos Ayres. 



2. ravenelii, Cuv. ^ Val. vii. p. 465. — N. America. 



3. holbrookii, Cuv. c^ Val. vii. p. 466. — Charieston. 



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



f. 1. — New Orieans, S. Carolina. 

 6. gibbosus, Cuv. ^ Val. vii. p. 467. — Charieston. 



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



7. catesbyi, Cuv. ^ Val. vii. p. 469. — Philadelphia. 



8. breviceps, Baird ^ Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Set. Philad. 1853, p. 390, 



and in Marcy's Explor. Red Eiver, Zool. p. 246. pi. 13, and in 

 U.S. Pacif. R. R. Exp. Fish. p. 28.— Eed 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, Kirtl. Bost. Journ. iii. p. 472. pi. 28. f. 1. — Ohio. 



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



12. aquilensis, Baird ^ Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Set. Philad. 1853. p. 387, 



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

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

 1854, p. 24.— P. popeii, Girard, U. S. Pacif R.R. Exp. Fish. p. 26. 



