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Genus 461. APOMOTIS Eafinesque. 

 Aj>omotis Rafinesqiie, Jour, de Physique 1819, 420 (cyanelliis). 



1419. Apomotis cyanellus (Ralinesque). Eed-eye; Bhic-spotted Sunfish; Green 



Sunfish; Utile Ited-eijc, 

 Great Lakes region to Mexico; very abundant from Ohio southwestward 



to the Eio Grande. 

 Lepomia cyamilua Ralinesque, Jour, de Physique 1819, 420, Ohio River. 



1420. Apomotis ischyrus (Jordan &. Nelson). 



Upper Mississippi Valley. 



Leinopomiis ischiirns Jordan & Nelson, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 25, 1877, Illi- 

 nois River, Illinois. 



1421. Apomotis phenax Cope & Jordan. 



Beesley Point, New Jersey. 



Apomotis jilietiax Cope & Jordan, Bull. U. S.Nat. Mus., x, 26, 1877, Beesley 

 Point, New Jersey ; locality possibly erroneous. 



1422. Apomotis punctatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



South Carolina to Florida. 



Brxjttns punctatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 462, 1831, 

 Charleston, South Carolina. 



1423. Apomotis symmetricus (Forbes). 



Mississippi Valley ; Illinois to Louisiana and Texas. 



Lepomia symmetricus Forbes, in Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 473, 1883, Illinois 

 River, Illinois. 



Genus 462. LEPOMIS Eafinesque. The Sunjishes. 



Lepomis Ralinesque, Jour, de Physique 1819, 402 {auritus). 

 Subgenus LEPOMIS Raflnesque. 



1424. Lepomis auritus (Liunreus). Yellowhelly; Redbreast Bream. 



Maine to Louisiana; abundant in all streams east of the Alleghanies. 

 Labrua auritus Linujeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 283, 1758, Philadelphia. 



1424a. Lepomis auritus soils (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 Virgiuia to Louisiana, in coastwise streams. 



Fomotis soils Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ^■II, 468, 1831, Lake 

 Pontchartrain, Louisiana. 



1425. Lepomis miniatus Jordan. 



Mississippi Valley; southern Illinois to Louisiana and Texas. 



Lepomis miniatus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 26, 1877, Tangipahoa River. 



Subgenus XEXOTIS .Jordan, 

 Xenotia Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat, Sci. Phila. 1877, 76 (fallax). 



1426. Lepomis gartnani Forbes. 



Lower Wabash River basin. 



Lepomis garmani Forbes, Bull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. ii, art. 2, 135, January, 



1885, Little Fox River at Phillipstown, and Wabash River and Drew 



Pond at Carmi, Illinois. 



1427. Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque). Long-eared Sunfiah. 



Michigan to Minnesota, South Carolina, and southward to the Rio Grande. 

 Ichthelis megalotis Ralinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 29, 1820, Kentucky, Licking, 

 and Sandy rivers, Kentucky. 



Subgenus HELIOPERCA Jord.an. 

 JSelioperca Jordan, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1876, 335 (pallidus). 



1428. Lepomis humilis (Girard). Bed-spotted Sunjish. 



Ohio and Kentucky to the Dakotas, Kansas, and Texas; locally abundant, 



especially in the lower Missouri Basin. 

 Bryttus humi'Us Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857, 201, Sugar Loaf 



Crpek, Arkansas. 



