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Pomotis guttatus Morris, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 3, 1859, Delaware River, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Enneacanthus obesus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 470, 1883 ^ 



Bean, Fishes Penna. 108, 1893; Eugene Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1897, 



34, 1898, Hacliensacli Valley, N. Y. 



The body of the banded sunfish is elliptic in form, its depth 

 more than one half the total length without caudal, its thickness 

 equal to two fifths of its depth. The caudal peduncle is short 

 and stout, its least depth one third of greatest depth of body. 

 The head is short, two fifths of total length without the caudal ; 

 the snout is very short and oblique, its length about two thirds 

 of the diameter of the eye, which is one third as long as the head,, 

 and exceeds the width of the interorbital space. The mouth is 

 oblique, moderate in size, the maxilla broadly expanded pos- 

 teriorly and reaching to below the middle of the eye; a supple- 

 mental maxillary bone. A black opercular flap, two thirds as 

 long ae the eye. Scales on cheeks in four rows. Gill rakers short 

 and spiny, 13 developed on the first arch, the longest scarcely 

 one half as long as the eye. The first dorsal spine is over the 

 pectoral base, minute, less than one half as long as the second, 

 which is two thirds as long as the eye; the spines increase in 

 size to the last, which is one half as long as the head; the fourth 

 and longest soft ray is two thirds as long as the head. The 

 ventral begins a little behind the pectoral base; the spine is two 

 fifths as long as the head; the fin reaches to the second anal ray, 

 its longest ray produced into a filament. The anal begins under 

 the 13th scale of the lateral line; the base is two thirds as long 

 as the head; the /first spine is two thirds as long as the second, 

 which is as long as the eye; the last spine is as long as the eye 

 and snout combined. The anal rays increase in length to the 

 fifth, which is as long as the head without the snout. The 

 pectoral is below the median line and reaches to above the third 

 anal spine. The caudal is rounded, the middle rays as long as 

 the head without the snout. The lateral line is imperfect after 

 the 17th to the 19th scale. D. IX, 11; A. Ill, 10; Y. I, 5; P. 12. 

 Scales 5-32-10. The type of the species, no. 6538, U. S. National 

 Museum, from Beesleys Point N. J. is here described; it is 3 J 

 inches long. 



