244 FISHES. 



flap rather long, with a wide red border; lat. 1. 35. Michx 

 igan to Illinois. 



8. XYSTROPLITES, Jordan. Sun Fishes. 



1. X. heros, (B. & G.) Jor. A species bearing muck 

 resemblance to Lejiomis pallid%t8^ having the same 

 general coloration, the black dorsal spot, the high spines, 

 etc., but with the pharyngeal teeth more or less paved, and 

 with the opercular flap broadly tipped with pale scarlet. 

 Lower Mississippi Valley. Pomotis 7iotatus^ ^K-> f^'oni 

 Tennessee is probably the same species. 



9. EU POMOTIS, Gill & Jordan. Poxd Fishes. 

 [Pomofis, Auct. not of Raf.) 



1. £. pall id us, (Ag.) Gill & Jor. Pale Sux Fish. 

 General color olivaceous, with faint darker bars; spines 

 high; general form, color and appearance of Lepiopomus 

 jKiUkhis^ but the mouth larger, the opercular flap broadly 

 tipped behind and below with scarlet, and the lower 

 pharyngeals very broad, concave, covered with large, 

 paved teeth. The gill-rakers are comparatively short 

 and weak. Illinois to Georo'ia and Louisiana. 



2. £. aureus, (Walb.) Gill & Jordan. Common Sun 

 Fish. Pumpkin Seed. Bream. Depth more than half 

 length; greenish olive above, sides orange - spotted; 

 orange yellow below; cheeks orange with blue wavy 

 streaks; ear-flap rounded, broadly edged with scarlet 

 below and l^ehind; lower fins orange, upper orange- 

 spotted; spines rather high; D. X, 10; A. Ill, 9'; lat. 1. 

 37. Great Lakes and streams, chiefly northward and E. 

 of the Alleganies; our most familiar species. {P. ma- 

 culatus^ auritus and vulgaris of authors.) 



