Fishes of Upper Georgia. 317 



Lepomis megalotis Cope, Journ. Phil. Ac. Sci., 1860, 220; Proc. Am. Phil. 



Soc, 1870, 452 (not Ichthdis megalotis Raf.). 

 ? Lepomis ardesiar.ua Cope, Jour. Phil. Ac. Sci., 18G9, 222; Proc. Am. Phil. 



Soc, 1870, 453. 

 ? Lepomis purpurascens Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1870, 453. 

 Ichthdis macrochira Jordan, Iud. Geol. Surv., 1874, 215 (not of Raf.). 



This abundant species is known to the Etowah fisherman 

 as the Spotted Pearch, or simply Pearch. My specimens 

 are all young, and are precisely like young specimens of the 

 same species from the Ohio. 



10. LEPIOPOMUS OBSCURUS. 



Pomntis obscurus Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sc and Arts, 1854, 302. 

 Ichthelis incisor var. obscurus Jordan, Man. Vert., 187G, 23G. 



This species is most nearly related to L. pallidus, but it is 

 certainly distinct. It is known to the fisherman of the Eto- 

 wah as the "Brim" (Bream), and according to some of them 

 it is the only species to which that name can properly be 

 applied. This species hides under rocks and bushes in deep 

 holes in the smaller streams, and cannot easily be taken with 

 the seine. We procured four or five large specimens, which 

 showed when fresh the following characters. As in Chceno- 

 bryitus melanops (Grd.), the coppery colors become black 

 in spirits. 



Dark-green above, shoulders and front of back with distinct greenish- 

 black spots ; sides with wide dark-green bars, much as in young specimens 

 of incisor; thorax bright dark coppery red, spotted with blackish, some- 

 times with orange; sides of body below mixed blackish and pale carmine; 

 face, lower jaw, and lower part of sides of head, a peculiar bright leaden 

 blue, mixed with some reddish, — a very distinctive feature, as shown by 

 Prof. Agassiz. Cheeks orange and lead-blue, without distinct stripes; 

 opercular spot rather large, all black, much as in L. incisor; dorsal and 

 caudal fins blue-green ; anal still darker and bluer. A dark blackish-green 

 spot on last rays of dorsal and anal, as iu L. incisor. In this species, as 

 in other brightly colored Percoids, the colors become suddeuly dull and 

 pale in death. 



