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HELD AND I'OkEST 



question of specific identity being thus settled, the species follow 



thus : 



i. Lepomis auritus, Gill. 

 Labrus auritus, Linn. 

 Pomotis solis, Cuv. and Val. 

 Pomotis rubicauda, Storer. 

 Pomotis appendix, Storer, Holbrook, etc. (Not Labrus appendix, Mitchill.) 



The common oblong black-and-long-eared Sunfish. 



2. Lepomis pallidas, Gill and Jordan. 



Labrus palladus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., v. [, p 407, 1815. 

 Labrus appendix, Mitchill, Am. Month. Mag. and Crit. Rev., v. 2, p, 247. 



Feb. 1 818. 

 Pomotis incisor, Cuv. and Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., v. 7, p. 466, 1831. 

 Pomotis tuna, Girard. Expl. and Surv. for i'acif. R. R., v. 10, Fishes, p. 22, 

 and several others. 



The large short black-and-square-eared Sunfish of the Eastern and 

 Northern States. 



Having directed Prof. Jordan's attention to the descriptions of 

 Mitchill, he fully concurred with me in the identifications above 

 indicated. 



II. Eupomotis, Gill and Jordan. 



Rafinesque knew no species of the present genus, and although I 

 have heretofore retained his name Pomotis as revived in another sense 

 by Cuvier and Valenciennes, I am now convinced that it is better 

 to slightly modify it to remove all misapprehension, and in this Prof. 

 Jordan entirely concurs. We therefore suggest the name here given. 



Eupomotis aureus, Gill and Jordan. 



Perca fluviatilis gibbosa ventre luteo, Catesby, 1754.* 

 Labrus. auritus, Schcepft et. al. 

 Spar us aureus, Walhaum, 1792. 

 Labi'tis maculatus, Mitchill, 1814. 

 Spay us mocasinus, Raf. 1 814. 



Pomotis auritus, Putnam, Gunther, et. al. (Not Labrus auritus, Linn.) 

 Pomotis vulgaris, Cuv. and Val. 

 Pomotis Catesbcei, Cuv. and Val., 

 and others. 



The common yellow spotted Sunfish with a short opercular flap, 

 mostly black but tipped with red and yellow. 



Theodore Gill. 



*" Perca fluviatilis gibbosa ventre luteo. Small. Upper parts dusky blue, back 

 darkest, belly yellow, gills blue with streaks of dark yellow, red spot at angle of 

 each gill, joined to a black spot," &c. &c. Carolina and Virginia. Catesby, 1754, 

 vol. 2, p. 8, tab. 8, fig. 3. 



