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Lower pharyngeals broader, teefcli bluntly conic or paved. ( Xystroplites Jordan.) 
lc. Cheefts without wavy blue lines; dorsal not mottled ; sides of 
body not spotted. 
I. [Pectorals shorter than head, not extending beyond ventrals; 
body elongate, rather deep mesially; caudal peduncle 
rather elongate ; snout projecting, forming an angle 
above eye; mouth wide, the lower jaw projecting ; max- 
illary reaching just past front of pupil ; eye as long as 
opercular flap, in head; flap moderate, broad, with a 
very wide pale margin below and behind ; dorsal spines 
moderate, as long as snout and half of orbit ; five rows 
of scales on cheeks; lower pharyngeals blunt, almost 
paved ; light olive, uniform in spirits ; traces of dusky 
mottlings on last rays of dorsal and anal. Head,2£; 
depth 2; lat. 1., 42 ; L., 5 inches] (Jordan & Gilbert.) 
Albulus, 22. 
II. Pectorals longer than head, extending past ventrals. 
m. Scales along lateral line 34 to 39 ; dorsal and ventral out- 
lines about equally curved; body moderately elongate, 
compressed ; head rather large; snout 3f to 4 in head; 
maxillary slightly longer than snout ; eye moderate, 3f 
to 4f in head; opercular flap much smaller than eye, 
black confined, pale margin widest above and below; 
scales rather large, 4 rows on cheeks ; longest dorsal spine 
reaching past posterior border of pupil ; pectorals reacn- 
ing beyond middle of anal ; ventral spine If to If in dis- 
tance between origin of ventrals and anus ; d.usky olive, 
silvery beneath. Head, 2£ to 3 ; depth, 2 to 2§ . . Heros, 23. 
mm. Scales along lateral line 42 to 44; dorsal outline much 
more strongly curved than ventral ; longest dorsal spine 
reaching posterior border of eye ; scales smaller than in 
nolatus ; rest as in the above species Holbrooki, 24. 
A fc. Cheeks with wavy blue lines; dorsal mottled; sides of 
body spotted ; body short and deep ; head small ; snout 
short, 4f in head ; maxillary extending to pupil ; eye 
moderate, 4 to 4f in head ; opercular spot about equal to 
eye, margined below and behind, black not confined; 
scales rather large ; dorsal spines moderately low, longest 
reaching middle of pupil ; pectorals scarcely longerthan 
head ; ventrals not reaching anal, spine If to If in dis- 
tance between origin of ventrals and anus. Greenish- 
olive, sides bluish, belly and lower fins orange ; the sides 
profusely mottled with orange ; dorsal bluish, orange- 
spotted. Head, 3 to 3^ ; depth, 2 to 2f ; lat. line, 38 to 43; 
L., 8 inches Gibbosus, 25. 
12. LEPOMIS CYANELLUS. 
(Green Sunfish ; Little Red-eye.) 
Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, Journ. de Phys., 420, 1819. 
Icthelis cyanella Rafinesque, Ich.Oli., 28, 1820 (Ohio River). 
Chcenobryttus cyanellus Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. 1, 234, 1876. 
Telipomis cyanellus Jordan & Copeland, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 138, 1876. 
Apomotis cyanellus Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 376, 1877 (White River). 
