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3. /. bombifrons, (Ag.) Bliss. ROUND-FACED SUN 

 FISH. Light brown; fins pale, unspotted; belly and 

 sides dotted with golden orange; head much broader, 

 deeper and shorter than in any other species; the profile 

 being exceedingly prominent, the forehead strongly 

 arched, and the greatest depth immediately over the 

 opercle ; flap very short and small ; soft rays of dorsal 

 much higher than spines; depth 2^ in length, head 

 nearly 3. Tennessee R.; rare. 



4. /. inscriptus, (Ag.) Bliss. BLUE-GREEN SUN FISH. 

 Dark olive green, with blue shades; many scales marked 

 each vrith a short horizontal black line, like a pencil mark, 

 these forming faint stripes along the sides of the back; 

 cheeks with blue lines; opercular flap moderate, rather 

 narrow, directed quite obliquely upwards, bordered above 

 and below by pinkish; spines long; depth 2^ in length. 

 A small handsome species, abundant in the Valley of the 

 Ohio and S % 



5. /. anagallinus, (Cope.) Bliss. RED-SPOTTED SUN 

 FISH. Dusky bluish, with greenish mottlings; sides 

 with many distinct, rather large, salmon-red spots; belly 

 bright salmon-red; opercular flap rather large, with a 

 very wide red margin, which entirely surrounds the black; 

 sometimes a black dorsal spot (?); spines rather high; 

 depth 2 in length; scales large; lat. 1. 33 to 36. Michi- 

 gan to Tenn. and Kas. ; a small highly colored species. 

 (L. peltastes, Cope. ? L. oculatus, Cope.) 



6. /. megalotis, Raf. LONG - EARED SUN FISH. Dark 

 olive, with blue shades; belly and sides of head strongly 

 tinged with orange; cheeks and sides of head with blue 

 horizontal bands; a broad blue stripe in front of eye; no 

 dorsal spot; caudal usually dusky; opercular flap ex- 

 tremely long in adults, more or less pale-edged, very 



