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and larvae of insects early in the season; later its food consists- 

 of minnows and crawfish. The young feed on insects and their 

 larvae. The spawning season is May and June, and gravelly 

 shoals are resorted to for depositing the eggs. 



The rock bass bites very freely and is a fair game fish and 

 excellent for the table. It fights vigorously, but its endurance 

 is not great. Suitable baits are white grubs, crickets, grass- 

 hoppers, crawfish and small minnows. Common earthworms are 

 also successfully used. 



Genus chaenobryttus Gill 



This genus has the general form and dentition of A m b 1 o - 

 p 1 i t e s , with the convex opercle, 10 dorsal and three anal 

 spines of L e p o m i s . Preopercle entire; branchiostegals six; 

 caudal fin emarginate; scales weakly ctenoid; vertebrae 13+16= 

 29; posterior processes of the premaxillaries extending nearly 

 to the frontals; frontals posteriorly with a transverse ridge con- 

 necting the parietal and supraoccipital crest, which are very 



strong. 



234 Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuv. & Val.) 



Warmouthj Goggle-eye 



Pomotis gulosus Cuvier & Vai^enciennes, Hist. Nat, Poiss. Ill, 498, 1829^ 



Lake Pontchartrain and lagoons about New Orleans. 

 Centrarchus viridis Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit. VII, 460, 1831, 



Charleston, S. C. 

 Centrarchus gulosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit. VII, 459, 1831; 



GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 258, 1859. i 



Chaenobryttus antistius McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 88, 1881, Lake Michi-^ 



gan; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 467, 1883. 

 Chaenohryttus gulosus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 468, 



1883; BoLLMAN, Bept. U. S. F. C. XVI, 562, pi. 69, fig. 3, 1892; Jordan 



& EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 992, 1896, pi. CLVII, fig. 421, 



1900. 



The body of the warmouth is heavy and deep, more elongate 

 than in L e p o m i s , its greatest depth contained Irom two to 

 two and one half times in total length without caudal; head 

 rather long, its length contained from two and one fifth to two 

 and two thirds times in the total without caudal; eye large, 

 about one fourth as long as the head, and about equal to the 

 snout; mouth large, the maxillary reaching to below hind margin 

 of eye; gill rakers eight or nine besides some rudiments; oper- 



