CENTRARCHIDA. 7g: 
Genus: AMBLOPLITES. 
Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque). Rock BAss; GOGGLE-EVE ; 
RED-EVE. 
Head 23%; depth 2 to 2%; eye very large, 3%. D. XI, ro ori; A. VI, 
10; scales 5 to 7-40-12. Body oblong, compressed. Head large, profile 
little depressed above eye; mouth large and oblique, lower jaw projecting. 
Preopercle serrate near its angle. Color olive green, tinged more or less 
with brassy yellow, with much dark mottling; each scale with a dark spot 
producing longitudinal rows; a black opercular spot. Soft dorsal, anal and. 
caudal with dark mottlings. Length 12 inches. 
A widely distributed and abundant species found in all larger 
streams and lakes. Recorded by Kirtland as common. Abund- 
ant, Jordan’s Report; ‘‘ Lake Erie, Ohio river, near Little Sandy 
river,’’ Henshall, 1889; Lorain County, ‘‘common in the larger 
streams, sometimes taken by the pound nets in the lake,’’ McCor- 
mick, 1892; ‘‘ A common fish at nearly all points where investi- 
gations were made,’’ Maumee river basin, Kirsch, 1893; Frank- 
lin County, nearly every stream, common, Williamson and 
Osburn, 1897; Big Jelloway creek, Knox County, not common, 
Parker, Williamson and Osburn, 1898; John’s creek at Waterloo, 
Huron river at Milan, Sandusky Bay, Ashtabula creek, Wabasb. 
river at Celina, Stillwater and Wolf creeks near Dayton, North 
Fork of Licking river at Newark, R. C. Osburn, 1899; Nigger- 
mill Run and Mahoning river, FE. B. Williamson, 1900; Pippin 
lake, Cuyahoga river and Breakneck creek at Kent, R. C. Osburn, 
1900. 
Genus: CHASNOBRYTTUS. 
Cheenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). WARMOUTH. 
Head 21 to 2%; depth 2 to 2%; eye 4 to4%. The general form and 
dentition of Ambloplites, with the convex opercle, 1o dorsal and 3 anal 
spines of Lepomts. Preopercle entire. Head large, snout about equal to 
eye; mouth large, maxillary reaching posterior border of eye, teeth on vomer, 
palatines, pterygoidsand tongue. D. X, gor 1o; A, III, 8or 9; dorsal spines. 
low. Color dark olive green, clouded with darker, usually with red or blue, 
and brassy; a dark spot on each scale; belly yellowish or brassy. Length 8. 
to 10 inches. 
Taken by Kirsch in the Maumee basin in Fish creek, at 
Edgerton, and Tiffin river at Brunersburg, ‘‘ not common,’’ 1893.. 
Not recorded for the state by any other collector. 
