252 FISHES OF ILLINOIS 



Little Wabash River in White county. Elsewhere it is reported 

 from the Mississippi Valley southward as far as New Orleans, and 

 Houston,' Texas. Jordan and Evermann say that it is not infre- 

 quent in the lower Mississippi Valley, and that in Texas it is a com- 

 mon pan-fish. 



Fig. 61 



LEPOMIS EURYORUS McKay 



McKay, 1881, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 89. 



J. & |G., 481; M. V., 119; B., I, 24 (? Lepomis auritus [part]); T & E., I, 1008 

 (Eupomotis); R., 32. 



Length 6 to 8 inches; body rather robust and somewhat elongate; 

 depth 2 to 2.3 in length. Color in life not very well known; in spirits 

 dusky olive mottled with darker, the general appearance very much as 

 in E. gibbosus; fin-membranes dusky, darker tessellations behind on soft 

 dorsal and anal and near base of caudal ; opercular spot black, the mar- 

 gin paler, with some red or coppery behind in life. Head 2 . 6 to 2 . 9 in 

 length; eye 3.8 to 4.3 in head; mouth large, oblique, maxillary reaching 

 considerably past front of orbit, 2.6 to 2.9 in head; jaws about equal; 

 supplemental maxillary well developed; teeth on vomers and palatines; 

 lower pharyngeals narrow, but strong, teeth conical, heavy and bluntlv 

 pointed; opercle produced backward, sharply rounded posteriorly, the 

 margin wide; gill-rakers well developed, the longest J diameter of eye, 

 rather stiff and rough. Dorsal X, 11 or 12; the spines low, slightly 

 longer than from snout to eye in young specimens, 2.2 to 2.7 in head; 

 anal III, 9 or 10; pectorals short, 1.3 to 1.4 in head; ventrals reaching 

 slightly past vent. Scales 6 or 7, 43-45, 14 or 15 ; those on cheeks small, 

 in 6 to 8 rows. 



One of the rarest of our sunfishes, and known in this state only 

 by reason of two young specimens taken by us in Crooked creek, near 

 La Harpe, Hancock county, in 1900. It was originally described 



