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from breeding mosquitoes. They will run up a little stream to 

 its very head and will manage to get into ponds and pools where 

 they have any kind of connection with a stream. 



Unfortunately tlie shape of the sunfish is such that it cannot 

 get into shallow, grass grown margins, nor over water-covered 

 leaves where Anopheles find shelter; therefore sunfish and 

 Anopheles may co-exist. 



The species grows to a length of eight inches and is one of 

 our most brilliant forms. The upper parts are greenish olive 

 with a bluish tinge, the sides profusely spotted with orange, the 

 belly and lower fins orange and the dorsal and caudal fins bluish 

 with orange spots. The cheeks are orange with undulating blue 

 stripes; the opercular flap is black, emarginated behind and 

 underneath with bright scarlet. 



It need hardly be said that there is no difficulty in introducing 

 sunfishes into almost any body of water ; but it should be said that 

 they are predatory and will attack almost any other small species 

 that may be in the same pond. Therefore when a pond has been 

 stocked with roach, no sunfish should be added. But sunfish and 

 Fnndulus would go well together. 



EUNKACANTHUS OBKSUS. 



Banded Sunfish. 



"This is a small species not exceeding three inches in length, 

 harboring altogether among plants ; never found in open water. 

 Quite widely distributed, but never nearly so abundant as the 

 preceding." 



Dr. Bean says : "It is olive green in color, with five to eight 

 dark cross-bars intermingled with golden or purplish spots. 

 There are lines and bars also on the cheeks. The flap on the 

 opercle contains a velvety black spot with a purple border. 

 Below the eye is a dark bar. This is a beautiful little species, but 

 has no economic importance. 



"In our vicinity it inhabits the entire Hackensack Valley, pre- 

 ferring quiet, weedy places. For the aquarium it is the most 

 desirable of all the sunfishes, as well on account of its hardiness 

 as of its harmless nature." 



