574 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
Pomotis elongatus Holbrook agrees in all respects with auritus , with 
the exception of a u dark blotch on the tail behind dorsal fin,” but as 
this is a character which does not occur in any known sunfish, it is 
safe to say that it is based on erroneous observations. There is in the 
museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts, a sunfish labeled u Lepomis elon- 
gatus Holbrook and Agassiz,” from South Carolina, which is identical 
with auritus. Although probably not a type specimen of elongatus , 
nevertheless it affords a clew as to the identity of Holbrook’s species. 
The Lepomis mystacalis Cope agrees with auritus in the number of 
scales in the lateral line and partly in color, aud with holbrooJci* in the 
number of scales on cheeks and the silvery coloration. But it is no 
doubt identical with auritus , for the next species Cope described after 
mistacalis is Xystroplites gillii , which is identical with holbrooM as is 
shown by the character of the pharyngeal teeth. The teeth of mysta- 
calis he does not describe and the natural inference is that they must 
have been of the auritus type. Lepomis miniatus* Jordan I am unable 
to satisfactorily separate from auritus , although the specimens exam- 
ined differ somewhat in coloration, and none of them are as large as the 
adult auritus. 
19. LEPOMIS GARMANI. 
Lepomis garmani Forbes, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 135, 1885 (Wabash and 
Little Fox Rivers). 
Habitat: Wabash and Illinois valleys. 
Etymology : Named after Dr. Harrison Harman, of Champaign, 111. 
20. LEPOMIS PUNCTATUS. 
(Chinquapin Perch. Plate lxxi, tig. 2.) 
Bryttus punctatus Cuv. &Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 462, 1831 (Charleston). 
Ichthelis punciatus Jordan & Copeland, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 138, 1876. 
Lepomis punctatus 5 ordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 224. 
Bryttus reiiculatus Cuv. & Yal., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 463, 1831 (Charleston). 
Lepomis apiaius Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 1877,65 (Volusia, Fla.). 
Lepiopomus opiatus Jordan, Bull, x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 25, 1877 (St.John’s River). 
Habitat : South Carolina to Florida, in lowland streams. 
Etymology : Latin ; dotted. 
21. LEPOMIS PALLIDUS. 
(Blue-gill ; Dollar Dee ; Blue Bream ; Copper Nose. Plate lxxj, fig. 3.) 
Labrus palladus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. 1815, 407 (New York). 
Pomotis pallidus Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 303, 1854 (Huntsville, Ala.). 
Eupomotis pallidus Gill & Jordan, Ball, x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 21, 1877. 
Lepiopomus pallidus Gill & Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 316, 1877. 
Helio perca pallida Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 355, 1877. 
Lepomis pallidus Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. 2, 241, 1878. 
* This species needs further comparison before it is definitely united to Lepomis 
auritus. It is also a question as to whether a subspecies solis can be maintained for 
the southern form of Lepomis auritus (Carolina to Louisiana). — JORDAN. 
