936 FISHES CENTRARCHID^. 



or less edged with pale orange ; no blaok dorsal spot ; no blue cheek-stripes, but the 

 sides of head with a purplish lustre ; opercular fljp small, bordered below with silvery. 

 In spirits the coloration is that of a young CluBtiobryttus antisiius, closely spotted or 

 clouded with brown, so that the pale ground color appears in irregular vertical chain- 

 like bars. The young resembles that of Eupomotis gibiosus very much, and older speci- 

 mens look like the young of Chmnobryttus. In both cases, the generic character will 

 serve for identification. This species reaches a length of about four inches. 



Habitat, Ohio and Mississippi Valleys from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Eitkiminitas 

 Eiver, Western Pennsylvania (Cope), White River (Jordan), Ohio Eiver (Rafinesque, 

 Jordan), Illinois Eiver (Forbes, Nelson, Jordan). 



Diagnosis. — The chain like bars and peculiar mottled coloration best 

 distinguish this species. The large mouth is also a point of importance. 

 This fish is of no value as food, but its activity, hardiness, voracity and 

 beauty commend it as an inhabitant of the aquarium. 



Lepomis macrochirus, although one of the very earliest described of our 

 Sun-fishes has been overlooked by most late writers. It is not by any 

 means rare, but it is somewhat select in its localies, preferring clear 

 weedy ponds and streams. 



12.1. Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill) Gill and Jordan. 

 Blue Sun-fish; Copper-nosed Bream; Dollardee. 



Labrus pallidus, Mitchill, Trans Lit. and Philos.Soo. N. Y. 1814, 407. 



Lepomis pallidus I Gill and Joiiban, Field and Forest, 1877. — Nelson, Eept. U. S. Fish 



Com., 1875-76, 790, 7t(j.— Bean, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus , 1880, 97.— Jordan, Man. Vert., 



3d Ed., 241. 

 Lepi/>pomus pallidus, Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyo. Nit. Hist, 1876, 316; Ann. N. Y. Acad. 



Soi., i, 1877, 99 ; Bull U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 10, 1B77, 35 ; Man. Vert., 1878, 241 ; Bull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 12, 1878, 40, 46, 60, 76 : Ball. Hayden's Geol. Sarv., iv, 1878, 436. 

 Helioperca pallida, Gilbert, Ohio Fish Com., 1877, 80. — Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyo. Nat. 



Hist., 1876, 355. 

 Lepomis appendix, Mitchill, Suppl. to Mem. Fishes N. Y. 1818, 2 17. 

 Pomotis incisor, DbKay, Fauna N. Y., Fish., 1842, 33.— Storbr, Syn., 1846, 293.— Agassiz, 



Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1854, 302. — Wailes, Report on Agrio. and Geol. Miss., 



1854, 334. 

 lohlhelis incisor, Holbrook, lohthy. S. C, 1860, 12.— Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z , 1863, 6.— 



Jordan, Man. Vert., 1876, 235.— Nelson, Cat. Fishes III., 1876, 36.— Abbott, Rept. 



U. S. Fish Com., 1875-76, 838. 

 Lepomis inoisor, Gill, Amer. Journ. Soi. and Art., 1854, 93, 

 Lepiopomis incisor, Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, 114. — Goode and Bean, Proo. 



U. S. Nat. Mas., ii, 1879, 139. 

 Pomotis gibbosus, Cvv. and Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii., 1831, 467.— DbKay, Fauna N. Y . 



Fishes, 1842, 33.— Stoher, Syn., 1846, 293.— Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., u, 



1879, 225. 



