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Tahle of measurements — Contiuiied. 



Dimensions. 



Head : 



Length of mandible 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



(rreatest height at fifth sijine 



Height at first spine 



Dorsal (soft) : 



Length of base 



Height at antecedent spine 



Height at longest ray (the seventh) 



Anal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Height at first spine 



Height at third spine 



Height at longest ray (the fifth) 



Caudal : 



Length of external rays , 



Pectoral: 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral: 



Distance from snout , 



Length , 



Branchiostegals 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Number of scales in lateral line 



Number of transverse rows above lateral line 

 Number of transverse rows below lateral lino 



Inches and 

 lOOths. 



X, 11 

 III, 10 



14-13 



lOOths of 

 length. 



12| 



e 



36 

 26 

 9i 



31 



17| 



17 



57 

 20 

 4i 

 10" 

 14* 



31 



20 i 



3P* 



17' 



6 



"Perca ffibbosa. P. 



15. Y. G. A. 13. C. 17. 



. Be GecrP (p. 283.) 



28. Lepomis gibbosus (L.) McKay. 



In the little-known eleventli or Halle edition of the Systema aSTaturie 

 of LiuniTeus, occnr the following descriptions : 



" Labrus anritns. L. canda bifida, opercu- 

 lis branchiarum pinnifor- 

 luibns. D. ^a. p. 



Habitat in Philadelphia. Mus 



pinnis dorsalibus iini- 

 tis, Cauda bifida, abdo- 

 m i n e luteo, operculio 

 striatis, apice nigro fal- 

 voque. 



Catesh. car. 2. p. 8. t. 8. 

 f. 3. Perca fluviatilis gib- 

 bosa, ventre Inteo. 

 Habitat in America." (p. 293.) 



The description of Perca gihhosa refers of course to Eiipomotis auren., 

 of authors, and the specific name of gibbosus must supersede aureus 

 Walbaum 1792. In his twelfth edition Linnaius suppressed his Perca 

 gihbosa, and referred Catesby's figure of Perca flnviatiUs gibbosa with 

 doubt, to the Labrus auritus. The description in the twelfth edition, as 

 Professor Gill has shown, can refer only to L. auritus. The specific 



