CENTRARCHIDyg. 79. 



Genus : Ambloplites. 



Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque). Rock Bass; Goggle-Eve ; 



Red-eye. 



Head 2^; depth 2 to 2}4; eye very large, 3^. D. XI, 10 or 11; A. VI, 

 10; scales 5 to 7-40-12. Body oblong, compressed. Head large, profile 

 little depressed above eye; mouth large and oblique, lower jaw projecting. 

 Preopercle serrate near its angle. Color olive green, tinged more or less 

 with brassy yellow, with much dark mottling; each scale with a dark spot 

 producing longitudinal rows; a black opercular spot. Soft dorsal, anal and 

 caudal with dark mottlings. Length 12 inches. 



A widely distributed and abundant species found in all larger 

 streams and lakes. Recorded by Kirtland as common. Abund- 

 ant, Jordan's Report; " Lake Erie, Ohio river, near little Sandy 

 river," Henshall, 1889; Eorain County, "common in the larger 

 streams, sometimes taken by the pound nets in the lake," McCor- 

 mick, 1892; " A common fish at nearly all points where investi- 

 gations were made," Maumee river basin, Kirsch, 1893; Frank- 

 lin County, nearly every stream, common, Williamson and 

 Osburn, 1897; Big Jelloway creek, Knox County, not common, 

 Parker, Williamson and Osburn, 1898; John's creek at Waterloo,. 

 Huron river at Milan, Sandusky Bay, Ashtabula creek, Wabash 

 river at Celina, Stillwater and Wolf creeks near Dayton, North 

 Fork of picking river at Newark, R. C. Osburn, 1899; Nigger- 

 mill Run and Mahoning river, E. B. Williamson, 1900; Pippin 

 lake, Cuyahoga river and Breakneck creek at Kent, R. C. Osburn,. 

 1900. 



Genus: Ch.Enobryttus. 



Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cu\ier and Valenciennes). Warmotjth. 



Head 2i to iV^ depth 2 to 2%; eye 4 to 4%. The general form and' 

 dentition of Ambloplites, with the convex opercle, 10 dorsal and 3 anal 

 spines of Lepomis. Preopercle entire. Head large, snout about equal to 

 eye; mouth large, maxillary reaching posterior border of eye, teeth on vomer, 

 palatines, pterygoids and tongue. D. X, 9 or 10; A, III, 8 or 9; dorsal spines, 

 low. Color dark olive green, clouded with darker, usually with red or blue, 

 and brass}'; a dark spot on each scale; belly 3-ellowish or brassy. Length 8 

 to 10 inches. 



Taken by Kirsch in the Maumee basin in Fish creek, at: 

 Edgerton, and Tiffin river at Brunersburg, " not common," 1893.. 

 Not recorded for the state by any other collector. 



