20 C0NTRIBUTI01>rS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY 1. 



2d subgenus, POMOTIS. (p. 98.) 



9th species, Red-Eye Sunfish, ICTHELIS ERYTHROPS, Icthele ceuil- 

 rouge. (p. 29.) 



Amploplites kupestris (Raf.) Gill. 

 Bodianus rupestris Rafinesque, 1818. 



Description fair. The name Pomotis, first proposed in 1819, is a mere 

 synonym of Lepomis. 



* 10th species, Eared Sunfish, ICTHELIS AURITA, Icthele oreiUeuse. 



Xenotis lythrochloris Jordan, nom. sp. nov. 

 Not Pomotis auritus ("L.") Giinther. 

 = Lepomis auritus Cope. (Not of Raf. 1818.) 



llth species, Big-Ear Sunfish, ICTHELIS MEGALOTIS, t Icthele megalote. 

 (p. 29.) 



Xenotis megalotis (Raf.) Jordan. 



Pomotis nitidus Kirtland. 

 Not Ichthelis incisor (C. & V.) Holbr. 

 Not Lepomis megalotis Cope. 

 IchtJielis megalotis Raf., Bliss {in lit.). 



Description pretty good. This cannot be the Lepiopomus pallidus [in- 

 cisor)., as has been supposed by Professor Cope. 



V. Genus, RIVER-BASS, LEPOMIS, Lepome. (p. 30.) 



= Micropterus Lacepede. 

 Not Lepomis Raf., 1819. 



* Body oua? eZZipiic (diameter one-third), olivaceous with Hue and rufous dots; head, 

 small, jaws equal, opercule iiexuose, appendage Mach, hroad and truncate, some blueflex- 

 uose lines on the side of the head; tail brownish lunulate ; back brownish ; aual fin 3 and 

 9; pectorals not reaching the vent. Thoracics mucronate. 



Length from 3 to 12 inches ; common in the rivers, creeks, and ponds of Kentucky. 

 Vulgar name, Sunfish. Iris brown. Dorsal fin brownish, 10 and 10, spiny rays shorter, 

 thoracic fins very long; spiny rays rather shorter, first soft ray mucronate ; pectorals 

 nearly rhomboidal with 14 rays, tail 16 rays. 



t Body oval, rounded (diameter two-fifths), chestnut color with Hue dots, telly red; head 

 large, lower jaw longer, opercule with hlue flexuose lines, appendage black, 'very large 

 elliptic, end rounded ; tail black, slightly forked, pectoral large, reaching the vent ; anal 

 fin 3 and 9 ; thoracics long and mucronate ; black tail. 



A fine species, called Red-belly, Black-ears, Black-tail Sun-fish, &c. It lives in the 

 Kentucky, Licking, and Sandy Rivers, &c. Length from 4 to 8 inches. Head very 

 sloping, iris silvery brown, hell y of a bright copper red color. All fh&fini blade except the 

 pectorals, which are olivaceous, trapezoidal, acute and large. The dorsal has 20 rays, 

 whereof 9 short ones are spiny. Body very short, hardly as long as broad, if the head and 

 tail are deducted. Thoracics like those of the foregoing species. 



