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2330. Xenotis occidentalis (Meek). 



Rio Grande Basin in Mexico. 



Lepomis occidentalis Meek, Field Col. Mus., Zool., Ill, 1902, 118, Rio 



Conches, Mexico. 



Genus 800. HELIOPERCA Jordan. 



Helioperca Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., XI, 1876 (1877), 355 



(Labrus pallidus Cuvier and Valenciennes; not of MitchiW^ Potnotis 



incisor Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Erichaeta Jordan, Klippart's Rept. Fish Com. Ohio, 1876 (1877), 48 



(Pomatis incisor Cuvier and Valenciennes); uncorrected in proof, 



reading for Helioperca. 



2331. Helioperca incisor (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Bluegill; Blue bream; 



Blue sunfish; Copper-nosed bream: DoUardee; Black-eared pondfish; 



Blue Joe; Blue-mouthed sunfish; Blue perch; Bream; Copper-headed 



bream; Perch; Sunfish. 

 Great Lakes to Florida and the Rio Grande. 

 Pomotis incisor Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, 



350 (466), New Orleans. 

 Pomotis gibbosus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 1831, 351 (467), 



Charle.ston, S. C; not of Linnaeus. 

 Pomotis speciosus Baird and Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 



1854, 24, Brownsville, Tex. 

 Pomotis obscurus Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, XVII, 1854, 302, 



Huntsville, Ala.; specimens almost black. 

 Pomotis luna Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., IX, 1857, 201, Fort 



Snelling, Minn. 

 Lepomis longisjnnis Cope, loc. cit., 1865, 83, Leavenworth, Kans. 

 Lepomis ardesiacus Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1868, 222, 



Kiskiminitas River, Pa. 

 Lepomis purpurascens Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XI, 1870, 454, 



Yadkin River, N. C. 



:2332. Helioperca macrochira (Rafinesflue). Bream; Chain-sided perch; Chain- 

 side; Gilded sunfish; Gold perch; Perch; Sunfish. 

 Ohio Valley and southwestward to Missouri and Kentucky. 

 Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, Jour, de Physique, LXXXVIII, 

 1819, 420, Ohio, Wabash, Green, and Licking Rivers. 



2333. Helioperca nephela (Cope). 



Western Pennsylvania. 



Lepomis nephelus Cope, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 1868, 222, 



Kiskiminitas River, western Pennsylvania. Perhaps the same as 



//. macrochira. 



2334. Helioperca marginata (Holbrook). 



Florida. 



Pomotis marginatus Holbrook, Jour. .\cad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 1855, 

 49, PI. VI, fig. 2, St. Johns River, Fla. This and the remaining species 

 here referred to Helioperca are of uncertain value and of doubtful 

 relatioii.ship. 



2335. Helioperca haplognatha (Cope). 



Monterey, Nuevo Leon. Mexico. 



Lepomis haplognathus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XXII, 1884 (1885), 

 16.S, Mf)iit('rey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 



2336. Helioperca botnbifrons (.Agassiz). 



Tennessee River. 



Pomotis bombijrona Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts, XVII, 1854, 

 :«W, Huntsville, Ala. 



Genus 801. XYSTROPLITES Jordan. 



Xystroplites Jordan, liull. X, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1877, 24 {X. gillii Jordan = 

 Pomotis pallidua AgassizJ. 



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