996 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



cc. Eye 3% to 3% in head; color olive, usually with many dark bronze spots like fly 

 specks scattered over the body; no black spot on last rays of dorsal and anal. 



PUNCTATUS, 1394. 



bb. Scales large, 33 to 35; color green, with darker bars; dorsal fin usually with a black 

 ocellated spot at base of last rays. SYMMETRICUS, 1395. 



1391. APOMOTIS CYANELLTJS (Rafinesque). 

 (BLUE-SPOTTED SUNFISH ; GREEN SUNFISH ; LITTLE BED-EYE.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2|. D. X, 11 ; A. Ill, 9 ; scales small, 6 or 7-45 to 55-16 ; 

 40 to 48 pores ; 8 rows on cheek. Body oblong, rather elongate, becoming 

 short and deep with age ; moderately compressed. Head large, with pro- 

 jecting snout. Mouth rather large, the maxillary broad and flat, with a 

 small supplemental bone, reaching nearly to middle of eye; lower 

 jaw projecting. Dorsal spines quite low, the highest scarcely longer than 

 snout, 3 to 4 in head in the adult, longer in the young. Opercular spot 

 small, less than eye, broadly margined with bronze, the black confined to 

 the bony part. Gill rakers moderate, x -f- 13. Pectoral short, not reach- 

 ing anal, !- in head ; ventrals not reaching vent. Color variable, the 

 prevailing shade green with a strong brassy luster on sides, which becomes 

 nearly yellow below ; each scale usually with a sky-blue spot and more or 

 less of gilt edging, giving an appearance of pale lateral streaks ; besides 

 these marks, dusky or obscure vertical bars are often present, and the 

 sides are sprinkled with dark dots ; vertical fins marked with blue or 

 green, the anal usually edged in front with pale orange ; usually a con- 

 spicuous black spot on posterior base of dorsal and anal, these often obso- 

 lete ; iris red ; cheeks with narrow blue stripes. Length 7 inches. Very 

 variable. Great Lake region to Mexico ; very abundant from Ohio south- 

 westward to the Rio Grande; ascending small brooks; not found east of 

 the Alleghanies. (/cwveof, blue.) 



Lepomis cyanellus, RAFINESQUE, Journ. de Physique, 1819, 420, Ohio River; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Synopsis, 474, 1883; BOLLMAN, 1. c., 569; EVERMANN & KENDALL, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 xii, 1892 (1894), 111. 



Iclhelis melanops, RAFINESQUE, Ichth. Ohiensis, 28, 1820, Ohio River. 



Pomotis longulus, BAIRD & GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1853, 391, Otter Creek, Arkansas; 

 (Coll. Capt. Geo. B. McClellan). 



Calliurus diaphanus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Rio Blanco, Texas. 



Calliurus formosus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Arkansas. 



CalUurus microps, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Rio Blanco, Texas. 



Calliurus murinus,* GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 200, 1857, Texas; (Type, No. 415). 



Bryttm signifer, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 201, 1857, Rio Medina, Texas. 



Bryttus mineopas, COPE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 84, 1865, Whittlesey Lake, Minnesota. 



Calliurus longulus, GIRARD, Kept. U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Ichth., 5, pi. iv, figs. 1-4, 18^9. 



Apomotis cyanellus, BOULENGER, Cat., i,21. 



*The specimens called Calliurus murinus by Girard are uoarly all the ordinary cyanellus. One 

 of them (No. 415, U. S. N. M.) differs somewhat and has been regarded by McKay as a distinct 

 species, thus described: 



Apomotis murinus (Girard): Head 2jj; depth 3. D. X, 10; A. Ill, 9; scales 7-42-15. Body elongate, 

 somewhat compressed, the form precisely as in Apomotis cijanellus. Mouth rather large; maxil- 

 lary about reaching front of eye; teeth on vomer and front of palatines. Gill rakers moderate, 

 9 or 10 developed. Supplemental maxillary scarcely appreciable. Eye equal to iuterorbital 

 width. Cheeks with 7 rows of scales. Spinous dorsal rather high, the longest spine about as 

 long as from tip of snout to pupil; pectorals short, scarcely reaching vent. Scalessmall, reduced 

 on breast. Dark greenish; a black spot on dorsal as in A. cyanellus. Characters from No. 415, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., from Texas; definite locality not known, (murinus, like a mouse, Mus.) 



