1002 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



1397. LEPOMIS MINIATUS,* Jordan. 



Head 2f; depth 2i; eye large, 3| in head. D. X, 10; A. Ill, 9; scales 

 4_40-11, 4 rows on cheek. Body oblong and somewhat regularly ellipti- 

 cal. Mouth rather large. Opercular flap short and broad, entirely black 

 or dark green. Gill rakers stout but not very short. Palatine teeth 

 present. Dorsal spines rather long, as long as from tip of snout to pos- 

 terior edge of pupil ; pectorals long. Sides of male with about 14 rows 

 of red spots, those of the lower rows very bright in life ; middle of side 

 with a few scales with black spots, and some black on scales under the 

 pectorals; belly orange, with red spots. Length 6 inches. Mississippi 

 Valley and southward in lowland streams ; common about New Orleans, 

 ranging from Texas eastward to Indian River, (miniatus, scarlet.) 



Lepomis miniatus, JORDAN, Bull, x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 26, 1877, Tangipahoa River, Louisiana; 

 (Coll. T. H. Bean); JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 476, 1883. 



Subgenus XENOTIS, Jordan. 



1398. LEPOMIS GABMANI, Forbes. 



Head 2; depth 2. Eye large. D. X, 10 or 11; A. Ill, 8 to 10; scales 

 5-34 to 41-14, 5 rows on cheek. Body rather deep; mouth moderate; 

 maxillary not reaching front of pupil ; longest dorsal spinjB about half 

 head. Gill rakers short and flexible. Dusky olive, sides with rows of 

 bronze spots, 1 on each scale, 7 rows below lateral line ; head with blue; 

 opercular flap large, f diameter of eye. Length 4 inches. Perhaps not 

 distinct from Lepomis miniatus. (Named for Professor Harrison Garman, 

 now of the University of Kentucky, at Lexington.) 



Lepomis (jarmani, FORBES, Bull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist., 135, January, 1885, Little Fox River, at 

 Phillipstown, and Wabash River and Drew Pond, at Carmi, Illinois; (Coll. 

 Forbes); Bouleoger, Cat., I, 27. 



1399. LEPOMIS ME6ALOTIS (Baflnesque). 

 (LONG-EARED SUNFISH.) 



Head without flap, 3 in length ; depth If to 2| ; eye 3| to 4 in head. 

 D. X, 10 to 12 ; A. Ill, 8 to 10 ; scales 5-36 to 45-14 ; pores 31 to 40, about 

 5 rows on cheek. Body short and deep, compressed, the back very 

 strongly arched in adult, the profile very steep, usually forming an angle 

 above eye, but sometimes full and convex. Mouth small, oblique, the 

 premaxillary rather below the eye, the maxillary extending to opposite 

 middle of eye. Gill rakers very short and soft, weaker than in any other 

 species, x + 8 or 9. Dorsal spines very low, the longest little longer than 

 the snout, 3 in head. Pectoral H to 1 in head. Opercular flap in the 

 adult very long and broad, with a broad or narrow pale blue or red mar- 

 gin, the margin sometimes very broad, sometimes almost wanting ; theflap 

 half or more longer than the eye in the adult, much shorter in the young, 



*This is probably a distinct species; not the young of auritus, as Bollman and Boulenger have 

 regarded it. 



