576 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
A careful comparison of the figures and descriptious of heros with 
two specimens of notatus from Posey County, Indiana, shows that the 
two species are probably identical. The type of heros is an old ex- 
ample. I have no means of positively deciding which of the two names, 
heros and notatus , has priority of date. 
24. LEPOMIS HOLBROOKI. 
Pomotis holbroolci Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 466, 1831 (Charleston, S. C.). 
Eupomotis holbroolci Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 224. 
Lepomis holbrooTci McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 92. 
Pomotis speciosus Holbrook, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1850, 48 (St. John’s R.). 
Eupomotis speciosus Jordan, Bull.x, U. S. Nat. Mus., 35, 1877. 
Pomotis microlophus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 264, 1859. 
Ichthelis microlophus Jordan & Copeland, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., 138, 1876. 
Xystroplites longimanus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1877, 66 (Volusia and Bay 
Port, Fla.). 
Habitat : Virginia to Florida, in streams of the lowlands. 
Etymology : To John Edwards Holbrook, author of Ichthyology of 
South Carolina. 
25. LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS. 
(Common Sunfish ; Pond Fish; Pumpkin Seed ; Sunny. Plate lxxii, fig. 1.) 
Perea gibbosus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat.,ed. x, 292, 1758 (after Perea fluviatilis gib- 
bosa, ventre luteo, of Catesby). 
Lepomis gibbosus McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 91, 1881. 
Sparus aureus Walbaum, Artedi, Pise., 290, 1792 (lakes of New York). 
Eupomotis aureus Jordan, Bull, x., U. S. Nat. Mus., 35, 1877. 
Morone maculata Mitchill, Fishes N. Y., 18, 1814. 
Pomotis vulgaris Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., ill, 91, 1829. 
Pomotus raveneli Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., yii, 465, 1831 (Philadelphia). 
Pomotis catesbei Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 469, 1831 (Philadelphia.) 
Pomotis Solis Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 468, 1831 (Philadelphia, New Or- 
leans; in part). 
Lepomis euryorus McKay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 89 (Fort Gratiot, Lake Huron). 
Habitat: Great Lake region and Upper Mississippi Valley, eastward 
to Maine, and thence south to Florida, east of the mountains, uot de- 
scending south of the Upper Wabash and Upper Illinois in the west. 
Etymology : Latin ; gibbous. 
Of the four species of Lepomis ( cyanellus , megalotis, pallidus, and gibbo- 
sus) that are found in the lakes of Michigan, Mr. McKay’s euryorus 
seems to agree best with the last, as is shown by the character of the 
pharyngeal teeth, gill rakers, and the opercular flap. It is probably 
based on a very old example of Lepomis gibbosus . 
