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1387. CHjENOBIlYTTUS GULOSUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(WARMOTJTH ; GOGGLE-EYE.) 



Head 2fc to 2 ; depth 2 to 2i ; eye 4 to 4|. D. X, 9 or 10 ; A. Ill, 8 or 

 9 ; scales 6-40 to 46-11 or 12 ; 37 to 42 pores ; 6 to 8 rows on cheek. Body 

 heavy, deep, more elongate than in Lcpomis ; head large, snout about 

 equal to eye ; mouth large, maxillary reaching posterior border of eye; 

 opercular spot about as large as eye. Dorsal spines low, longest reach- 

 ing to middle of pupil from tip of snout; pectoral not reaching origin of 

 anal fin ; ventrals nearly reaching anus, ventral spine about 2 in distance 

 between origin of ventral and anus. Gill rakers 8 or 9 besides rudi- 

 ments. Dark olive-green, clouded with darker, usually with red or blue, 

 and brassy ; a dusky spot on each scale more or less distinct ; vertical 

 fins mottled with dusky ; a faint spot on last rays of dorsal, bordered by 

 paler ; 3 oblique dusky or reddish bars radiating from eye ; belly yellow- 

 ish or brassy. Length 8 to 10 inches. Eastern United States from the 

 Great Lakes to Carolina and Texas and west to Kansas and Iowa. Chiefly 

 west or south of the Alleghanies ; common in South Carolina. A very 

 voracious species, variable in form and color, (gulosus, large-mouthed.) 



Pomotis gnlosus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 498, L829, Lake Pontchartrain 



and lagoons about New Orleans. 

 Centrarchus viridis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 460, 1831, Charleston, 



South Carolina. 



Calliurus punctulatus, AGASSIZ, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts. 1854, 300, Huntsville, Alabama. 

 Calliurus floridensis, HOLBROOK, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1855, 53, St. Johns River, Florida. 

 Galliums melanops, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 200, Leon and Medina rivers, 



and Dry and San Pedro creeks, Texas. 



Lepomis charijbdis, COPE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 224, Texas. 

 Lepomis gillii, COPE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 225, James River, Virginia. 

 Chienobryttus antistius, McKAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 88, Lake Michigan, at Chicago; 



(Coll. Jordan); specimens with dorsal spines a little more anterior than usual; JORDAN & 



GILBERT, Synopsis, 467, 1883. 

 Gh&nobryttus gulosus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 468 1883; BOLLMAN, I. c., 562, pi. 69, fig. 3; 



BOULENGER, Cat., I, 13. 



456. ENNEACANTHUS,* Gill. 



Enneacanthus, GILL, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts. 92, 1864, (obesus). 

 Hemioplites, COPE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 218, (simulans = gloriosus). 

 Copelandia, JORDAN, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1877, 56, (eriarcha). 



Body rather short and deep, compressed. Mouth small; the supple- 

 mental maxillary bone well developed. Teeth on vomer and palatines, 



* Concerning this genus McKay remarks: "This genus, Enneacanthus, Gill, as understood by 

 me, includes llemioplites and Copelandia. The genus Hemioplites was based by Cope on the pres- 

 ence of 8 spines in the dorsal fin and 4 in the anal. I learn from Professor Jordan's notes that 

 Cope's original type of Hemioplites simulans has really 9 spines in the dorsal. Dr. Edward J. 

 Nolan, who has recently examined the specimen, also informs me that there are 9 spines in the 

 dorsal. In a collection of young specimens of Enneacanthus margarotis from Virginia, which I 

 have examined in the National Museum, there are several specimens with the fin formula D. 9, 

 A. 4, several with the formula D. 10, A. 4, and the remainder with the formula D. 9, A. 3. That 

 is, some of these specimens, all collected at the same time and evidently of the same species, 

 were Enneacanthus margarotis, others were Hemioplites simulans, and the remainder would repre- 

 sent a second species of Copelandia. In 120 specimens of Enneacanthus margarotis, examined by 

 me the results were as follows: 13 specimens with D. 8, A. 3; 89 specimens with D. 9, A 3; 9 

 specimens with D. 10, A. 3; 5 specimens with D. 10, A. 4; 4 specimens with D. 9, A. 4. In the 

 examination of 53 specimens of Enneacanthus obesus the following results were obtained 4 

 specimens with D. 8, A. 3; 46 specimens with D. 9, A. 3; 2 specimens with D. 10, A. 3; 1 specimen 

 with D. 10, A. 4." McKay, Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus., 1881, 92. 



