COMMON SUN-PISH. 931 



tioDB of its mottled tides being the concentration of such rays as straggle tiirongh the 

 floating pads and flowers to tlie sandy bottom, and in harmony with the snnlit brown 

 and yellow pebbles. Behind its watery shield it dwells far from many accidents inev- 

 itable to human life." 



117. EupoMOTis NOTATUS (Agassiz) Jordan. 



Pomotie notatus, Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1834, 302,— Jordan, Man. Vert., 



1876, 240. 

 Lepomis notatus, Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 1870, 453. 

 XyetropUtea notatus, Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Soi., i, 1877, 99; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No 



10, 1877, 35; Ball. Hayden's Geol. Surv,, iv, 1878, 436; Ball. U. S. Nat. Mus,, No. 12, 



1878, CI. 

 Eupomotia palUdus, Jordan, Ball. U. S. Nat. Mub., x, 1877; Man. Vert, 2d Ed., 1878, 



244 (not Pomotis palHdus, Agassiz,) 



Description — A large stoat species, of an elongate form ; head 3 inlength; depthabont 

 3i; general aspect of Lepomis pallidus, but the month larger, reaching front of eye; 

 eye large, 4 in head ; iris red ; scales very large, 45 in the lateral line ; foar rows on the 

 cheek ; spines high and strong, the longest as long as from snout to past the middle of 

 pnpil ; pectoral flos long, bat not reaching anal ; gill-rakers stronger than in M. gib- 

 iosus, mnch more strongly dentate ; the pharyngeal bones as in that species are broad and 

 strong, covered with large subtruncate teeth ; color in spirit pale brassy green, without 

 traces of blue or orange ; opercular flap short and rounded, shorter than in Eupomoiis 

 gibiosus, black, with a wide pale border chiefly below and behind . 



Habitat, Lower Mississippi Valley, the specimens described from the Mississippi Val- 

 ley at St. Louis. Others examined from Alabama Elver (Bean coll.). Agassiz's types 

 were from the Tennessee Eiver in Alabama, Some of these sent to me by Professor Gar- 

 man, belong to the present species formerly erroneously identified by me with 

 the Pomotis pallidus of Agassiz. This species probably occurs in the Ohio Biver in Ohio, 

 but no specimens from this State are on record. 



Diagnosis. — This Sua-fish resembles among Ohio species Lepomis pal- 

 lidus, from which it may be known by the paved teeth^and by the colora- 

 tion of the ear flap. 



Genus 64. LEPOMIS. Eafinesque. 



Lepomis, Eafinesque, Journal de Physique, etc., 1819, (type Labrus auritus, Linneens, 

 and of Gill, Cope, and many recent writers, not of Eafinesque, 1820). 



Pomotis, Eafinesque, Journal de Physique, etc., 1819 (same type) ; loh, Ohiensis, 1820 

 (not of Holbrook and recent writers). 



Apomotis, Eafineeque, Journal de Physique, etc. (cyanellus). 



Ichthelis, Eafinesque, Ich. Ohiensis, 1820 (auritus). 



Telipomis, Eafinesque, Ich. Ohiensis, 1820 {eyanellus). 



Bryttua, Cuvibr and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. (punctatua). 



Ichthelis, Holbrook, Ich. S. Car., 1860 {auritus a,ndpallidu^). 



Calliurus and Bryttua, GirarD, U. S. Pac. E. E. Surv., 1858. 



Lepiopomus, Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyceum Nat. Hist., 1877 (corrected orthography). 



Xenotia, Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Soi., 1877, 76 (fallax). 



