124 LÖNNBERG, LIST OF FISHES OBSEKVED IN SOUTH-FLORIDA. 



The eggs are large but few in number. 



December and Jauuary seein to be the spawning season of 

 this little fish and in that time the male has such a bright 

 colors, that it must be regarded as one of the handsomest fresh- 

 water fishes. It is blacii with seven, more or less complete, 

 vertical crossbars of bright metailic blue. A semicircular blue 

 spöt below and behind the eye. At the base of the caudal 

 there are two Avhitish blue or blue spöts surrounded by black. 

 The ventral fins almost blue with black börder. At the base 

 the dorsal has two and a half band of blue spöts; the anal has 

 one or two bands of the same kind. A little within the black 

 margin of all the vertical fins, the chiefcolor of which is black, 

 is a broad, blue band, which is broadest and brightest on the 

 anal. Pectorals not colored. After the spawning time the blue 

 will change to paler, greenish blue but still metailic. In spirit 

 the blue color is lost and the fishes become blackish with paler 

 band where the blue has been. Both the caudal spöts are al- 

 ways conspicuous. 



The female is not so bright. Its color is a kind of rusty 

 brownish with darker spöts. These are sometimes arranged in 

 three ranges along the side. The belly is always paler and the 

 entrails shine through, the liver reddish and the intestines dark, 

 if they contain anything. At the base of the caudal two Avhitish 

 dark bordered spöts. Dark spöts on the rays make one band 

 on the anal, two on the dorsal and three on the caudal. 



Pomoxys sparoides (Lacépéde) Girard. »Speckled perch ■ 

 »Goggleeye>, »Strawberry-bass». Abundant in Lake Apopka and 

 several other lakes in Orange Co. 



Chcenobryttus gulosus (CuviER & Valbnc). »Warmouthed 

 perch». In Ferncreek near Orlando, small lakes near Zellwood, 

 Apopka and Orlando, in a small brook from a sulphurspring at 

 Lake Jessup, Orange Co. In ditches and ponds Arcadia, De 

 Soto Co. 



Enneacanthus simulans (Cope). I found this fish together 

 with Chsenobryttus gulosus in abundance in a smal! pond near 



