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with about 4 broad indistinctly defined longitudinal bands. Color 
very dark, otherwise similar to adult. Margin of ventral paler 
in examples 3 inches long. 
Enneacanthus gloriosus (Holbrook). 
Blue Spotted Sun Fish. 
Color in life muddy-brown speckled with brilliant gilded spots, 
with azure and blue-green reflections. These spots extending on 
bases of caudal and dorsal, and on head, though not on predorsal 
region. Iris, rayed dorsal and anal wine-color, and same tint on 
caudal basally, though margin dusky. Pectoral translucent with 
diluted olive. Ventral pale, spine and first ray dusky with its 
tip slaty and first 2 rays dusky wine-color. After death colors 
become darker, more of a deep greenish-olive, and abdomen 
remains pale. Opercle with black blotch, smaller than pupil, and 
margined above and below with gilt-like spots. Affluent of 
Crosswicks Creek, near Trenton. July 15th, 1906. Dr. C. C. 
Abbott, T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
Enneacanthus obesus (Girard). 
PLATE 102. 
Banded Spotted Sun Fish. 
Small spotted sunfish, most likely this species, and the last, 
are reported to occur in the small cedar-stained affluents and 
ponds about Dennisville in Cape May County. 
Lepomis phenax (Jordan). 
Deceptive Sun Fish. 
There are about 15 scales between lateral line and origin of 
spinous anal, counted obliquely forward. 
