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The Food of Fishes. 



Table of food of Apomotis and Lepiopomus— Continued. 



Xenotis megalotis, Raf . Long-eared Sunfish. 



This little species is not at all common in the state, but 

 has been taken by us from the middle course of Fox R., 

 from tributaries of the Illinois R., and from ponds in Union 

 county and southern Illinois. 



Unfortunately, the three specimens examined had not 

 lately taken food, and only a very imperfect notion of their 

 u sual aliment can be given. Corixa, Ephemerid larvae, 



