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tiSj providing, of course, the latter genus should retain its identity. 
An excellent figure of the pharyngeal teeth of this species is given 
by Bean and Weed.^ The width of the pharyngeal teeth is con- 
tained times in the toothed portion or midway between the 
two of Eupomotis and the three of Lepomis which Forbes and 
Richardson ^ use to separate the genera. 
The fins are quite characteristic and have been used by some 
for taxonomic purposes. Boulenger ^ for instance separates his 
genera Lepomis and Eupomotis on the ground that the pectoral 
fins of the former are rounded and those of the latter pointed. 
By this token, our specimen would come under the genus Eupomo- 
tis. We have found already, however, that it has the pharyngeal 
teeth of Lepomis. We are not surprised then to find Boulenger ^ 
combining Lepomis pallidus and Eupomotis pallidus. We would 
think it advisable, however, to have placed them under the genus 
Lepomis rather than under Eupomotis. We notice that Smith, 
McKay^^ and Bollman^ combine the three genera Apomotis, Eupo- 
motis and Lepomis under the one genus Lepomis. Our specimen, 
which has the pectoral fin of Boulenger’s ® Eupomotis and the 
pharyngeal teeth of Lepomis, should add weight to the advisabil- 
ity of combining at least two of these genera. Bean and Weed ^ 
were unable, unfortunately, to obtain specimens of the so-called 
E. pallidus when making their notes on the pharyngeal teeth of 
Lepomis. We believe that this may be due to the fact that, as 
Boulenger suggests, they are synonymous and, together with other 
writers already mentioned, we believe that the genius Lepomis 
proposed in 1816 should include the genus Eupomotis proposed in 
1860. Our grounds for this, based on our specimen, are summar- 
ized as follows: It has pharyngeal teeth such as are ascribed to 
the genus Lepomis by Bean and Weed.^ It has a pointed pectoral 
such as is ascribed to the genus Eupomotis by Boulenger.^ It has 
the width of the toothed portion of the pharyngeals or midway 
between the width of two for Eupomotis, and three for Lepomis 
which Forbes and Richardson ^ use as a criterion. 
Lepomis heros (Baird and Girard)- 
“Bream,” Pumpkin-seed Sunfish. 
Two specimens of this species were collected June 24, 1912, 
at a cypress crossing one-half mile from camp. This species is 
not generally considered as common and the range given for it 
by all authors classifies it as a southern form. 
As in other sunfishes of the Apomotis, Eupomotis and Lepomis 
