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Genus ACANTHABCHUS Gill. 



21. Acanfliarchus poniotis (Baird) Gill. Mud Sun-fish. 



Eastern United States from New York to South Caro- 

 lina, in sluggish streams. 



This is a small, but handsome species, reaching 5 inches 

 or more in length ; it is too small to have much value 

 as a food-fish. 

 24774. Kinston, North Carolina. H. W. Welsher. 



Genus ENNEACANTHUS Gill. 



22. Enneacantluis piimiger Jordan. 



North Carolina, in streams near the coast. 



The typical ginniger from North Carolina is, in my 

 opinion, sufficiently distinguished from the New Jer- 

 sey form to retain the name proposed for it by Prof. 

 Jordan. The intergradation between the two has not 

 yet been shown. 



20491. Kinston, North Carolina. Mason & Qmnn. 



Genus MESOGONISTIUS Gill. 



23. Mesogonistius chratodon (Baird) Gill. Black-banded 



Sun-fish. 



New Jersey to Maryland, in sluggish streams (Jor. & 

 Gilb.). 

 20354. Trenton, New Jersey. Dr. C. C. Abbott. 



Genus LEPOMIS Bafinesque. 



Subgenus Apomotis Bafinesque. 



24. I<epoiMi§cyaraeIIii§Baf. Bed-eye; Blue-spotted Sun-fish. 



Apomotis cyandlus Jordan, Man. Vert. E. U. S., ed. 2, p. 239. 



Great Lake Begion ; Mississippi Valley and southward 

 to Mexico. 



20052. Cumberland River, Tennessee. A. Winchell. 



Subgenus Lepomis Bafinesque. 



25. Jjepomis auritus (L.) Baf. Long-eaked Sun-fish. 



Eastern United States east of the Alleghanies from 

 Maine to Florida. 

 The species is everywhere abundaut, and though seldom 

 exceeding 8 inches in length, it is extensively eaten. 

 4306. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, J, H. Richard. 



