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The Food of Fishes. 
Table of Food of Eupomotis and Centrarchus. 
Eupomotis. 
Cen- 
trarchus. 
One inch to two. 
Two to three inches. 
Three to four inches.l 
to 
XJ 
< 
One inch and under. 
1 1 
One inch to two. 
c n 
X 5 
Number of specimens examined 
9 
01 
5 
04 
2 
45 
9 
46 
07 
33 
04 
1 1 
01 
5 
2 
I. Mollusc a . 
Undetermined 
Gasteropoda 
01 
02 
45 
Amnicoia 
Vi vi para 
Planorbis 
Physa 
40 
3 ° . 
05 
05 
A oepkala * 
02 
61 
03 
45 
44 
02 
02 
06 
20 
01 
01 
02 
02 
II. Insecta 
60 
03 
52 
5 1 
24 
21 
21 
20 
91 
07 
06 
06 
Undetermined 
i. Diptera (larvae) 
Chironomus 
2 Coleoptera . 
Hvdrophilidae 
3. H erniptera 
20 
20 
23 
23 
55 
55 
Corixa 
4. Neuroptera (larvae) 
05 
05 
11 
05 
2 5 
2 5 
17 
03 
03 
03 
03 
Enhemeridae 
Palingenia 
Agrionidae 
06 
Libeilulidae 
08 
02 
Phryganeidae 
III. Arachnida 
01 
01 
75 
04 
Hydrachnidae 
IV. Crustacea 
39 
35 
H 
25 
25 
22 
*3 
09 
80 
Amphipoda (Allorchestes) 
Isopoda (Asellus) 
Entomostraca 
39 
13 
12 
26 
21 
03 
01 
18 
7i 
12 
12 
21 
38 ' 
80 
Ciadocera 
Simocephalus 
Ostracoda 
35 
45 
09 
Copepoda 
V. Vegetation 
t 
12 
04 
06 
02 
Myriophyllum 
Chara 
Algae 
t 
Only two specimens were ' examined which could be 
classed as adults — one three and a fourth inches long, the 
other smaller. These indicate that the food of full-grown 
individuals differs from that of the young chiefly in the 
