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FISH. Suborbicular; depth about half length; spines 

 long, longest equal to distance from snout to preopercle; 

 eye large, three in head; dirty straw color, clouded with 

 olive; sides with four to six well-defined black vertical 

 bars running up on the fins; first through eye, last at 

 base of tail; D. X, 11; A. Ill, 12; lat. 1. 28; L. 3. New 

 Jersey to Maryland, in sluggish waters; a small, hand 

 some species, known at once by its peculiar coloration 

 resembling some Chcetodonts. 



9. GLOSSOPLITES, Jordan. BLACK SUN FISHES. 



&amp;lt; Calliurus, Ag. 



1. G. melanops, (Grd.) Jordan. BLACK SUN FISH. 

 Depth nearly half length; head two-fifths; eye large; 

 body very robust, broad forwards, compressed behind; 

 nape rounded; a depression over eye, the snout project 

 ing, and forming an angle; fins rather low, with stout 

 spines; mouth very large, with strong teeth, the maxil 

 lary bone very broad and flat, reaching to posterior mar 

 gin of eye; tongue with one or more conspicuous 

 patches of teeth; teeth on palatines; scales large; 

 coppery olive, or blackish, sides with faint streaks along 

 the rows of scales; five dark bands radiating from eve 

 across cheek; opercular spot very large; soft rays of 

 fins barred; D. X, 10; A. Ill, 9; lat. 1. 40. Illinois R. 

 (Prof. Forbes) to Texas and W.; a fine large species 

 having the appearance and dentition of Ambloplites, but 

 with three anal spines and a rounded operculurn as in 

 Chcenobryttus. (Ch. charybdis, Cope.) 



2. G. gillii, (Cope.) Jordan. RED-EYED BREAM. Light 

 green with olive cross-bars, which embrace pale spots, 

 forming a chain-like pattern ; four radiating bands behind 

 the eye; fins blackish, barred; opercular spot small; 



