302 I, Agassiz on Fishes of the Tennessee River. 
rather large, the lateral line is so high near the back, that it is not 
ec y it anteriorly. The general color is of a reddish brown, 
motiled with red above and passing gradually into a uniform 
bright brick-red color prevailing upon the lower part of the body, 
aud sprinkled with irregular light dots. 
2. Pomotis inscriptus, Agass.—Small species, the outline of 
which is more elongated than in P. sanguinolentus. The gill 
covers are marked as in that species with three or four lines of a 
metallic steel blue color; opercular appendage long, directed more 
obliquely upwards than in any other species here described, black, 
with a light border which is a continuation of two of the lines 
of the cheeks, the one running below the eye, the other termina- 
ting behind the eye. Each scale of the back and sides is marked 
in its centre with a short narrow black line, hence the sides are 
3. Pomotis notatus, Agass.—Called Pond Perch at Huntsville. 
Body more elongated than in P. vulgaris; its upper and lower 
curve nearly equal. Opercnlar appendage very short, not eX- 
tending beyond the base of the pectorals; its hinder margin !s 
orange-colored, with a black spot in front, from which a faint 
dusky band extends to the eye. The spinous rays of the dorsal 
and aval are more slender than in P. vulgaris, and the articnlated 
toral fins are long, extending beyond the base of the anal, as 10 
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the sides, gill cover and belly being silvery ; scales not dotted 
with black as in many similar species. 
that the profile is still more precipitate and the body somewhat 
moré elongated as well as much stouter, especially in the per? 
