CHAIN-SIDED SUN-FISH. 935 



Lepiopomue humilU, Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 10, 1877, 35; Bull. Hayden's 



Geol. Surv., iv, 1878, 435. 

 Lepomis anagallinus, Cope, Joum Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil , vi, 1869, 221. 

 Ichthelie anagallinus, Jordan, Man. Vert , 1876, 237. 

 Lepiopomua anagallinus, Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat Mas , No 10, 1877, 35 ; Ann. N. Y. Acad. 



Soi., 1, 1877, 99; Man. Vert., 1878, 240; Bull. Hayden's Geol. Sarv., iv, 1878, 435. 



Description. — A small, elongate, brightly colored species, resembling somewhat the 

 young uf Lepomis cyanellus ; depth 2i in length ; head about 3 ; caudal peduncle and fin 

 more than one-third the total length ; mouth rather large; mucous cavities large; gill- 

 rakers loBg, about as in Lepomis cyanellus ; scales large ; 33 to 36 in the course of the 

 lateral line ; fins well developed ; dorsal spines rattier high, the longest as long as from 

 snout to past the pupil ; coloration brilliant ; general color greenish, the fins and sides 

 with mottings of a daiker green (a very characteristic feature) ; sides in adults with 

 many very distinct salmon red spots, very conspicuous in life, slowly fading in spirits; 

 operoulaf flap rather large, with a very wide ciiiuson border which entirely surrounds 

 the black ; no blue cheek stripes ; a black dorsal spot (on Cope's type, and on specimens 

 in the Smithsonian Institution from ladian Territory ; my Kentucky specimens, how- 

 ever, do not show it). Length three inches. 



Habitat, Kentucky to Kansas (Cope, type). Missouri (Cope), Salt Elver, Ken- 

 tucky (Jordan, extremely abundant, many specimes sent by Mr. W. M. Linney), Indian 

 Territory (specimens in U. S. Nat. Mus ). Lepomis humilis has not yet been noticed in 

 Ohio, but it doubtless occurs in small rdcby streams in the southern part of the State. 



Diagnosis. — This is our sm illest Sun fish, and one of the most brilliantly- 

 colored ; the very wide red margin of the ear-flap, and the green mot- 

 tling of the vertical fine, easily distinguish it in connection with the 

 'long gill-rakers. It is of little value as food from its small size. 



120. Lepomis maceochirus Rafinesque. 



Chain-sided Snn-fisii. 



Lepomis macrochirus, Eafinesquk, Journ. de Phys., 1819, 420. 



lohthelis maorocMra, Rafinesque, Ichth. Oh., 1820, 26. 



Lepiopomm macrochirus, Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Scii, i, 1877, 99 ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mns., 



No. 10, 1877, 35; Bull. Hayden's Geol, Surv., iv, 1878, 435 ; Man. Vert , 1878, 239. 

 Lepomis nephelus, Cope, Journ. Acad. Nat. Soi., Phila., vi, 1869, 222. 

 Chcenohryttus nephelus, Jordan, Man. Vert., 1876, 235. 

 Telipomis neplielas, Nelson, Cat. Fishes 111., 1876, 37. 



Description. — Small, bright-colored species of a regularly oblong form ; depth 2 2-5 in 

 length ; mouth large, larger than in most of the species of this genus, approaching that of L, 

 oyanellus ; head somewhat pointed ; mucous cavities large ; scales moderate, about 42 in 

 the lateral line, 5 rows on the cheeks ; fins well developed ; pectorals elongate, reaching 

 anal ; dorsal spines rather high, much as in the preceeding species; coloration in life, 

 bright with lustre ; general color a brilliant steel-blue with many dark bronze-orange 

 spots so arranged that the ground color forms a series of vertical chain-like bars very 

 eonspicaous in life ; soft rays of the vertical fins mottled with brown and the anal more 



