1004 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Subgenus HELIOPERCA, Jordan. 



1400. LEPOMIS HUMILIS (Girard). 



(RED-SPOTTED SUNFISH.) 



Head 2f to 3 ; depth 2* to 2| ; eye large, 3 to 3| in head. D. X, 10 or 11 ; 

 A. Ill, 8 or 9 ; scales 5-34 (33 to 39)-ll ; pores 25 to 32, about 5 rows on 

 cheek. Body oblong. Scales large. Spines rather high. Profiles not very 

 steep. Mucous pores on head very large; opercular flap rather long, 

 broad, with a very broad red margin, which entirely surrounds the black. 

 Longest dorsal spine not quite half head ; pectoral a little shorter than 

 head. Gill rakers rather long, blunt, x -f 9 to 11, well developed. Bluish, 

 with conspicuous greenish spots and mottlings posteriorly; sides with 

 many conspicuous round, salmon-red spots, usually a faint black spot on 

 last rays of dorsal ; belly and lower fins red. Length 4 inches. Ohio and 

 Kentucky to the Dakotas, Kansas , and Texas ; locally abundant, especially 

 in sandy streams of the Lower Missouri basin ; a small, highly-colored 

 species, (humilis, humble.) 



Eryttus humilis, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 201, Sugar Loaf Creek, Arkansas. 

 Bryttus oculatus,* COPE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 83, Lake Whittlesey, Minnesota. 

 Lepomis anagattinus, COPE, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 221, Leavenworth, Kansas. 

 Lepomis humilis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 479, 1883; EVERMANN & Cox, Report U. S. Fish 



Comin., xv, in, 1893 (1895). 

 Eupomotis humilis, BOULENGER, Cat., i, 30. 



1401. LEPOMIS HAPLOGNATHUS, Cope. 



Head (without flap) 3i ; depth 2f ; eye 3| in head without flap, equal to 

 the nearly flat iuterorbital space. D. X, 11; A. Ill, 9; scales 6-35-14 or 

 15, 6 rows on cheek. Form oval. Dorsal and ventral outlines subequally 

 convex. Lower lip more prominent, maxillary bone reaching anterior 

 line of orbit, lower pharyngeals narrow, with conical teeth ; gill rakers 

 obtuse, rather stout; no supplementary maxillary bone nor palatine 

 teeth. Pectorals not described ; ventrals barely reaching anal ; extremi- 

 ties of soft dorsal and anal of the same length, and falling far short of base 

 of caudal. Caudal notched at middle, the lobes beveled at the free bor- 

 ders. Opercular flap rather long. Color olivaceous, yellowish below, a 

 blue band crossing the preorbital bone above, and another following the 

 premaxillary border and passing along the inferior border of the orbit ; 

 below this another blue line crosses the cheek. Other blue bands have 

 been obscured by the alcohol ; flap plain black. Length of type 4 inches. 

 Monterey, Nuevo Leon. The most southern of the group to which it 

 belongs, and, the first known from Mexican waters. (Cope.) (avrAoof, 

 simple; yvdftof, jaw.) 



Lepomis haplognathus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1884 (1885), 168, Monterey, Nuevo Leon. 

 (Coll. Cope.) 



* Lepomis oculatus (Cope): Similar to Lt-pomis humilis, but the body deeper, the caudal pedun- 

 cle and fin forming but % of length. Head short; opercular flap long, with a black spot as 

 large as eye, surrounded by a broad, pale margin; body without red spots. Depth 2%. Scales 

 5-32-11. Length 3 inches. Minnesota. Cope. 



