562 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
V. CHiENOBRYTTUS. 
1864. Chaenobryttus Gill, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 92 (Calliurus melanops 
Girard). 
1876. Glossoplites Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. i, 223 ( melanops ). 
Type : Calliurus melanops Girard (=Pomotis gulosus Cuv. & Yal.) 
Etymology: to yawn ; bryttus; i. e\, lepomis. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES OF CHAENOBRYTTUS. 
a. Body elongate, heavy, short and thick; head large; snout about equal to eye; 
mouth large ; maxillary reaching posterior border of eye ; eye large, 4 to 4£ in 
head ; opercular spot about as large as eye, black confined, margined ; scales 
moderate, 6 to 8 rows ou cheeks ; dorsal spines low, largest reaching to middle of 
pupil ; pectorals not reaching anal ; ventrals nearly reaching anus, ventral spine 
about 2 in distance between origin of ventrals and anus. Dark olive-green, sides 
brassy, with numerous blotches of blue and coppery red ; belly yellow, spotted 
with red; iris bright red; 3 or 4 dark-red bars back and below eye across cheeks and 
opercles; vertical fins reticulated; soft dorsal and anal with a faint spot. Head, 
2i to 2f; depth, 2 to 2£; D. x, 10; A. m, 9 ; lat. 1., 38 to 44 ; L., 10 inches. 
Gulosus, 6. 
6. CHA3NOBRYTTUS GULOSUS. 
(War-mouth. Plate lxix, fig. 3.) 
Pomotis gulosus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 498, 1829 (New Orleans). 
Centrarchus gulosus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 459, 1831. 
Calliurus gulosus Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 300, 1854 (Huntsville, Ala.). 
Chcenobryttus gulosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865,84 (Michigan). 
Lepomis gulosus Cope, Journ.. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868, 223. 
Centrarchus viridis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 460, 1831 (New Orleans). 
Chcenobryttus viridis Jordan and Copeland, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 137, 1876. 
Calliurus punctulatus Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 300, 1854 (Huntsville? 
Alabama). 
(?) Pomotis pallidus Agassiz, 1. c., 1854 (Huntsville, Alabama). 
Calliurus floridensis Holbrook, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 53 (St. John's 
River, Florida). 
Bryttus floridensis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 260, 1859. 
Chcenobryttus floridensis Jordan & Copeland, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 137, 1876. 
Calliurus melanops Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857 (Leon River, Rio 
Medina, Dry Creek, and San Pedro Creek, Texas). 
Bryttus melanops Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 260, 1859. 
Chcenobryttus melanops Gill, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 92, 1864. 
Glossoplites melanops Jordan, Man. Vert., 223, 1876 (Illinois River). 
Lepomis gillii Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868,225 (James River, Va.). 
Chcenobryttus gillii Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. ,425, 1870. (All streams of North 
Carolina east of the Alleghanies; not found in the French Broad). 
Glossoplites gillii , Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. i, 233, 1876. 
Chcenobryttus gillii Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 252, 1870 (French Broad). 
Lepomis charybdis Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1868, 224 (Texas). 
Chcenobryttus antistius McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 88 (Lake Michigan). 
Chcenobryttus gulosus antistius Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 76, 1885. 
? Lepomis lirus McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881,89 (based on Pomotis pallidus 
Agassiz). 
Habitat : Eastern United States from the Great Lakes to Virginia, 
southwest to the Gulf ; east of the Alleghanies ; north to Virginia ; west 
to Kansas and Texas. 
