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base of the ear-flap) in the length three. Flap of the adults sometimes 

 half as long as the head ; that of the younger specimens shorter. Mouth 

 small, the maxillary reaching little, if any, beyond the anterior border 

 of the orbit. No palatine teeth. Gill-rakers very short. Dorsal rays 

 X, 10; anal rays III, 9. Scales 6-38-12. Brilliantly colored. Sides 

 brassy and orange, many scales indigo-blue. Belly orange or red. 

 Cheeks and opercles orange, with horizontal streaks of blue ; these anas- 

 tomosing more or less. Snout and lower jaw blue. Membranes of 

 the dorsal fin deep orange. Anal fin mostly orange, tipped with blue. 

 Ear-flap black, with a pale or scarlet border. Length six or eight inches. 



Distributed from Michigan to Mexico. Abundant in all parts of In- 

 diana. Carroll County (23, '88, 49) ; Marshall County (33, '88, 55) ; 

 Clarke and Ohio counties (23, '88, 56); Franklin County (5, No. 2, 7) ; 

 Monroe County (1, '85, 411); Marion County (1, '77, 44, 376) ; Kan- 

 kakee River (1, '77, 44) ; Lawrence County (33, '84, 204) ; St. Joseph's 

 River (4., '88. 154) ; Kankakee River, at Plymouth (4, '88, 156) ; Lo- 

 gansport (4., '88, 159) ; Gibson and Posey counties (4, '88, 163) ; Vigo 

 County (16, 95) ; Winamac, in Pulaski County ; Eel River basin (4, '94, 

 38) ; Wabash and Decatur counties (34, '93, 99). 



This is one of the most brilliantly colored fishes that is to be found in 

 our streams. It is frequently taken on the hook and is, barring its 

 usually small size, as good as any of our other sun-fishes. It haunts quiet 

 holes in clear streams. Of its breeding habits I know nothing. Prof. 

 Forbes (I4, No. 3, 53) found in the alimentary canal of the specimens 

 examined by him about sixty per cent, of Chironomus larvse, sixteen 

 per cent, of mollusks, and the remainder of the food to consist of crus- 

 taceans and insects. 



Lepomis garmani Forbes. 

 Garman' § Sun-fish . 



Forbes, 1885, I4, Vol. II, 135 ; Bollman, 1888, 11, 574. 



A small sun-fish reaching a length of about four inches. Depth in the 

 length two and one-fourth. The dorsal outline well arched, and with a 

 depression at the nape. Head in the length, somewhat less than three 

 times. Mouth of moderate size, the maxillary scarcely reaching the 

 front of the pupil. No teeth on the palatines. Eye in head a little less 

 than four times. Cheeks with five rows of scales, the opercles with six. 

 Gill-rakers very short and few. Dorsal fin X, 10 or 11. Anal fin III, 8 

 to 10. Pectorals reaching the anal. Lateral line high-arched. The 

 scales 6-34 to 41-14. Color dark, with a purplish tint ; sides striped 

 with rows of bronze spots, one on each scale. 



Wabash Valley. This species was originally described by Prof. Forbes 

 from specimens taken in White County, Illinois. Since that time, it has 

 been taken in considerable abundance in Posey County, Indiana, by Dr. 



