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The small specimen is more elongate, with higher spines ; 

 higher than the short rays, and the vertical bars quite dis- 

 tinct, as in the young of Helioperca pallida. 



Length of larger specimen, 7 inches; smaller 3 inches. 

 Taken in the South Fork of the Ocmulgee Eiver, where 

 the species is known as "Bream" and "Red Eye." 



This species is closely related to "Ch. melanops," or "gulo- 

 sus." A specimen of the latter from Lake Michigan, eight 

 inches long, differs from the above description in the follow- 

 ing particulars : — 



Body stouter, thicker and deeper; the generic characters more em- 

 phatic; depth 2jt in length; head 2f ; angle made by projection of snout 

 greater; lat. 1., 40; spines shorter, longest 3£ in head ; opercular spot very 

 large, as large as eye. Coloration quite different; in spirits nearly black; 

 in life as follows : — Dark olive green above ; sides greenish and brassy, 

 with blotches of pale blue and bright coppery red, the latter shade pre- 

 dominating ; belly bright brassy yellow, profusely mottled with light red ; 

 lower jaw chiefly yellow; iris bright red ; opercular spot black, bordered 

 with copper color ; three or four dark red bands radiating backwards from 

 eye across cheeks and opercles, separated by narrow pale blue ones ; upper 

 fins barred with black, orange and blue, the black predominating ; lower 

 fins blackish. The young of this species is very much mottled and 

 blotched, somewhat as in Ambloplites rupestris, but the pattern of marking 

 more chain-like, sometimes forming obscure vertical bars. 



4. LEPIOPOMUS AURITUS. 



Labrus auritus "Linnaeus, Systema Naturae." 



Lepomis auritus Gill, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1864, 93. 

 Ichthelis auritus Jordan and Copeland, Bull. Buff. Soc, 1876, 138. 

 Pomotis rulricauda Holbrook, Ich. S. Car. 1st. Ed., 10, 1855. Giiuther, 

 Cat. Fishes, I, 262, part. 

 Ichthelis rubricaucla Holbrook, Ich. S. Car., 1860, 15. Putnam, 



M. C. Z., 1863, 6. Jordan, Man. Vert., 239. 

 Lepomis rubricauda Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, 1870, 452. 



Many small specimens of this species were taken ; and the 

 remains of two or three large ones, thrown away by the fish- 

 ermen, were seen. The common long-eared Sunfish of the 

 North-east {Pomotis or Lepomis appendix of authors) is 

 probably identical with Lepiopomus auritus. 



