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Pomotis longulus Baird and Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 



1853, 391, Otter Creek, Ark. 

 Calliurus diaphanus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IX, 1857, 200, 



Rio Blanco, Tex. 

 Calliurus formosus Girard, loo. cit., 1857, 200, Arkansas. 

 Calliurus microps Girard, loo. cit., 200, Rio Brazos, Tex. 

 Calliurus murinus Girard, loc. cit., 200, Texas. 

 Bryttus signifer Girard, loc. cit., 201, Rio Medina, Tex. 

 Bryttus mineopas Cope, loc. cit., XVII, 1865, 84, Whittlesey Lake, 



Minneapolis, Minn. 



2318. Ap o metis euryorus (McKay). 



Upper Great Lakes region. A form regarded as this occasional in the 

 upper Mississippi. 



Lepomis euryorus McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 89, Lake 

 Huron at Fort Gratiot, Mich. Regarded by Hubbs as a hybrid 

 between Apomotis cyanellus and Eupomoiis gibbosus. 



2319. Apomotis ischyrus (Jordan and Nelson). Big-nosed sunfish. 



Upper Mississippi Valley. 



Lepiopomus ischyrus Jordan and Nelson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 

 1877, 25, lUinois River, 111. Rare; thought by Hubbs to be a hybrid. 



2320. Apomotis phenax Cope and Jordan. Deceptive sunfish. 



Streams of New Jersey. 



Apomotis phenax Cope and Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1877, 26, 



Beaseley's Point, N. J.; locality possibly erroneous; rare; thought to 



be a hybrid. 



2321. Apomotis punctatus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Bream; Chinquapin 



perch; Spotted bream. 



South Carolina to Florida. 



Bryttus punctatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, 

 347 (462), no locality, probably Charleston, S. C. 



Bryttus reticulatua Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 348 (463), Charles- 

 ton, S. C. 



Lepomis apiatus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XVII, 1877, 65, Volusia, 

 Fla. 



2322. Apomotis symmetricus (Forbes) 



Mississippi Valley; Illinois to Louisiana and Texas. 

 Lepomis symmetricus Forbes, in Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, 

 473, Illinois River, 111. 



Genus 796. LEPOMIS Rafinesque. Sunfishes. 



Lepomis Rafinesque, Jour, de Physique, LXXXVIII, 1819, 420 {Labrus 



auritus Linnseus). 

 Pomotis Rafinesque, loc. cit., 420 (Labrus auritus Linnajus). 

 Icthelis Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 1820, 27 (Labrus auritus Linnseus). 



2323. Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill). 



New York. 



Labrus palladus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 407, 



New York. Misprint for pallidus. 

 Lepomis appendix Mitchill, .\mcr. Month. Mag., 1818, 247, New York. 



.\n uncertain species, perhaps based on L. auritus. 



2324. Lepomis auritus (Linnajus). Yellowbelly; Redbreast bream; Sunfish; 



Tobaccobox; Long-eared sunfish; Sun perch; Bream; Redbreast; Black- 

 cared pondfish; Flatfish; Flounder; Fresh-water sunfish; Kiver; Leather- 

 ear; Leatherwing; Perch; Quiver; Redbelly; Red-bellied bream; Red- 

 bellied robin perch; Red-headed bream; Red perch; Red sunfish; Red- 

 tailed bream; Red-tailed pomotis; Roach; Robin; Robin perch; Yellow 

 perch; River stinfish; Horned-eared sunfish. 



Maine to Virginia; abundant in all streams east of the Alleghenies and 

 south of New York. 



Labrus auritus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 283, Philadelphia. 



Bryttus unicolor Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, 

 348.(464), Philadelphia and Charleston. 



Pomotis rubri-cauda Storer, Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., IV, 1842, 

 177, Concord, N. H. 



Lepomis ophthalmicus Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1868, 223. 

 224, Roanoke River, Va. 



