57. roMOTis. 263 



4. Fomotis speciosus. 



Baird 8f Girard, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 24, and U. S. Pacif 

 B. R. Exp. Fishes, p. 23. pi. 8. f. 5-8 (not Holbrook). 



D.|^. A. :^. L. lat. 43. 



The length of the head is one-fomth of the total ; the diameter of 

 thr eye one-fourth of the length of the head. Caudalis emarginate ; 

 pectorals reachrag as far backwards as the ventrals. Brownish, 

 with a narrow blackish band parallel to, and near, the dorsal line ; 

 posterior part of the soft dorsal with a large subcirciilar blacldsh 

 spot ; anal and ventrals blackish ; pectorals yellowish. 



Fresh waters of the United States. (Texas.) 



Some of the specimens in the British Museum Collection have the 

 spinous dorsal rather elevated, the fifth spine being more than one- 

 half of the length of the head. Others have the same spine much 

 shorter, contained about 2| in the length of the head. These 

 specimens, perhaps, are specifically different, but exhibit the black 

 dorsal spot mentioned in the diagnosis. 



a-e. Adult, half-grown, and young : skins. (Lake Erie ?) From 

 Dr. Parnell's Collection. 



5. Pomotis chsetodon. 



Paird in the Ninth Smithson. Report, p. 324. 



The height of the body is more than one-half of the total length ; 

 eye large, only one-third of the length of the head. Caudalis sub- 

 tiiincated ; the pectorals and ventrals extending beyond the third 

 anal spine. Dirty white, with six black vertical bands ; ventrals 

 black in the centre; the dorsal black between the tlirec anterior 

 rays. (Baird.) 



Cedar Swamp Creek, New Jersey. 



6. Pomotis heros. 



Paird ^ Girard, Proc. Ac. Nut. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 25, and U. S. Pacif. 

 R. R. Exp. FisJies, p. 24. pi. 9. f. 13-16. 



• 12 n 



The length of the head is 3| in the total ; the fliametcr of the 

 eye one-fourth of the former. Pectorals very long, extending to 

 the second soft ray of the jinal fin. Caudalis emarginate ; the spinous 

 dorsal elevated. Uniform blackish bro\Mi ; pectorals yellowish ; 

 other fins greyish. (B. 4' G-) 



Texas. 



Compare Pomotis machroch,ir[a, Raf.J, Kirtland, Best. Journ. iii 

 p. 460. pi. 27. f. 3. 



