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blotches of pale blue and bright coppery red the latter 

 shade predominating; belly bright brassy yellow, pro- 

 fusely mottled with bright red; lower jaw chiefly yellow; 

 iris bright red, as in most Sun Fishes; opercular spot as 

 large as eye, black, bordered with copper color; three or 

 four wide 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 former color predominating, lower fins blackish; 

 a few small faint black spots on last rays of dorsal; dorsal 

 spines moderately high, very stout, the longest as long 

 as from snout to middle of eye; head 2f in length; depth 

 2; eye as long as snout, 4 to 5 in head; mucous pores 

 about head very large; body very robust, broad forwards, 

 compressed behind; nape rounded; a depression over 

 eye, the snout projecting, and forming an angle; fins 

 rather low, with stout spines; mouth very large, with 

 strong teeth, the maxillary bone very broad and flat, 

 reaching to posterior margin of eye; tongue with one or 

 more conspicuous patches of teeth; teeth on palatines; 

 scales large; D. X, 10; A. TIT, 9; lat. 1. 40. Great Lakes 

 South and West; a fine large species having the appear- 

 ance and dentition of Ambloplites, but with three anal 

 spines and a rounded operculum as in Apomotis. (Ch. 

 cJuirybdis, Cope, C. melanops^ Grd.) In spirits, the 

 coloration is very dark. 



2. C. viridis, (C. & V.) Jordan. RED-EYED BREAM. 

 WAR-MOUTH PERCH. Very similar to C. gulosus, but 

 differently colored olive green, with blackish spots on 

 the scales, and more or less reticulated; form somewhat 

 more slender; fins, etc., the same; Virginia to Florida. 

 (C. gillii) Cope.) 



