Aquatic Zile 
streaks ; cheeks orange with blue stripes. 
6 inches. Creeks and small rivers. Mich- 
igan to Minnesota, South Carolina and 
south to Rio Grande. Very attractive. 
(megalotis, large-eared. ) 
LEPoMIS MINIATUS. Dark olive, with 
rows of bronze or purplish spots below 
lateral; below light or brassy; cheeks 
Lepomis auritus 
dark bluish-green. 4 inches. Lakes and 
ponds. Mississippi Valley; Southern II- 
linois to Florida, Louisiana and ‘Texas. 
(mimatus, vermillion or scarlet.) 
LrEPpoMiIs PALLADUS. Blue-gill Sunfish. 
Light to dark green with purple lustre; 
sides with dark bars; belly coppery-red. 
12 inches. Ponds, lakes and rivers. 
Great Lakes to Florida and the Rio 
Grande. An attractive fish for large 
tanks. (palladus-pallidis, pale.) 
Eupomoris EURYoRus. Rare and little 
known. Allied to E. gibbosus. 6 to 8 
inches. Lakes and creeks, Northern 
Great Lakes region. (Eupomotis, truc 
opercle-ear ; euryorus, wide margin. ) 
EUPOMOTIS GIBBOSUS. Common Sun- 
fish; Sunny; Pumpkin-seed. Olive above 
with bluish reflection; sides spotted with 
orange ; cheeks orange with blue streaks ; 
lower fins orange, dorsal and caudal with 
orange spots; opercular flap black, rear 
margin bright scarlet. 6 inches. Ponds 
and streams. Eastern U.S. An attract- 
ive fish and probably the most abundant 
species. Select small specimens; large 
ones are quarrelsome. (gibbosus, round- 
ed outline like a full moon. ) 
EUPOMOTIS HEROS. Pale olive, slight- 
ly mottled; black opercular flap with 
wide border, which is blood-red in males, 
pale in females. 8 inches. Streams. 
Southern Illinois and Indiana to Florida 
and the Rio Grande. (heros, hero, after 
a genus of Cichlidae which this species 
resembles. ) 
EupomMotrs HOLBROoKI.  Holbrook’s 
Sunfish. Dark green above; silver be- 
low; breast yellow; fin dark with yel- 
low rays. 10 inches. Lowland streams. 
Virginia to Florida. (holbrooki, in hon- 
or of Dr. Holbrook.) 
EUPOMOTIS PALLIDUS. Bears a resem- 
blance to L. palladus. Rare; few speci- 
mens known. 7 inches. Georgia to Texas. 
MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU. Small-mouth 
Black Bass. Dull green with brassy lus- 
tre. 6 pounds. Cool, swift waters. Can- 
ada, Middle and Eastern U. S. (Microp- 
terus, small-finned, an inappropriate 
name; dolomieu, in honor of Dolomieu, 
a French naturalist. ) 
MICROPTERUS 
SAL MOIDES. Large- 
Lepomis palladus 
mouth Black Bass. Back green; sides 
silvery; belly white; black lateral band. 
25 pounds. Lakes and sluggish warm 
water; has been taken in brackish and 
salt water. U.S. east of the Rockies. 
(salmoides, like a salmon or trout; inap- 
propriate, but given because this species 
is called “trout” by the fishermen in some 
localities, especially in the South. ) 
