THE FISHES OF NEW JERSEY. 313 
Lepomis auritus (Linnzeus). 
Long Eared Sun Fish. 
Color in life olive-brown above, center of each scale darker, 
and edges shot with metallic greenish in some lights. Head more 
or less translucent brownish, several blue-green streaks before 
eye, and I running up close below. Fins translucent dusky, 
margin of rayed dorsal pale grayish-white. Sides of body also 
tinged grayish with saffron tints of abdomen extending up to 
lateral line. Breast gamboge. Some of scales on belly and pre- 
ventral region tinted vermilion. Opercular flap black, with a 
slight blue-green line above and below. Iris dusky-brown. 
Lower surface of head translucent brownish, tinted dull gam- 
boge in some lights. Pectoral and caudal with olivaceous tints. 
Margin of ventral in front and behind grayish-white. Length 
about 6 inches. ‘Taken on salt-clam in the Rancocas Creek at 
Centerton, Burlington County, October 14th, 1906, where they 
are abundant. T. D. Keim and H. W. Fowler. 
Eupomotis gibbosus (Linnzus). 
Sun Fish. Common Sun Fish. 
Color in life with upper surface olivaceous-dusky, and vertical 
fins with more or less of same tints. ach scale on back with a 
vertical dusky bar, and pale ones extending below level of eye. 
Belly golden or coppery-amber. Several dusky azure-green 
streaks radiate from eye, turning to coppery-amber. Iris brown- 
ish. Jaws translucent brownish. <A black blotch on opercle 
equals eye, with bright scarlet margin posteriorly, pinkish-purple 
anteriorly below, and olive-purple above. Inside of gill-opening 
pale translucent coppery. A dusky blackish-streak between each 
dorsal and caudal ray basally, and parallel with rays. Anal 
dusky-gamboge. Caudal mottled basally, and with a coppery 
tint. Pectoral dilute amber-brown. Ventral same, bright basally, 
