COMMON SUN-FISH. 931 
tions of its mottled tides being the concentration of such rays as struggle through the 
floating pads and flowers to the sandy bottom, and in harmony with the sunlit brown 
and yellow pebbles. Behind its watery shield it dwells far from many accidents inev- 
itable to human life.” 
117. EKupomoiis noratus (Agassiz) Jordan. 
Pomotis netatus, AGAss1z, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1834, 302.—JORDAN, Man. Vert., 
1876, 240. 
Lepomis notatus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Scc., 1870, 453. 
Xystroplites notatus, JORDAN, Ann. N, Y. Acad. Sci., i, 1877, 99; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No 
10, 1877, 35; Bull. Hayden’s Geol. Surv., iv, 1878, 436; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 12, 
1878, 61. | 
Eupomotis pallidus, JORDAN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1877; Man. Vert, 2d Ed., 1878, 
244 (not Pomotis pallidus, Agassiz, ) 
Description —A large stout species, of an elongate form; head 3 inlength; depthabout 
2%; general aspect of Lepomis pallidus, but the mouth larger, reaching front of eye; 
eye large, 4 in head ; iris red; scales very large, 45 in the lateral line; four rows on the 
cheek ; spines high and strong, the longest as long as from snout to past the middle of 
pupil; pectoral fins long, but not reaching anal; gill-rakers stronger than in EZ. gib- 
bosus, much more strongly dentate; the pharyngeal bones as in that species are broad and 
strong, covered with large subtruncate teeth ; color in spirit pale brassy green, without © 
traces of blue or orange; opercular flap short and rounded, shorter than in Hupomotis 
gibbosus, black, with a wide pale border chiefly below and behind. 
Habitat, Lower Mississippi Valley, the specimens described from the Mississippi Val- 
ley at St. Louis. Others examined from Alabama River (Bean coll.), Agassiz’s types 
were from the Tennessee River in Alabama. Some of these sent to me by Professor Gar- 
man, belong to the present species formerly erroneously identified by me with 
the Pomotis pallidus of Agassiz. This species probably occurs in the Ohio River in Ohio, 
but no specimens from this State are on record. 
Diagnosis—This Sun-fish resembles among Ohio species Lepomis pal- 
Hidus, from which it may be known by the paved teeth and by the colora- 
tion of the ear flap. 
GENUS 64. LEPOMIS. Rafinesque. 
Lepomis, RAFINESQUE, Journal de Physique, etc., 1819, (type Labrus auritus, Linneus, 
and of Gill, Cope, and many recent writers, not of Rafinesque, 1820), 
Pomotis, RAFINESQUE, Journal de Physique, ete., 1819 (same type); Ich. Ohiensis, 1820 
(not of Holbrock and recent writers). 
Apomotis, RAFINESQUE, Journal de Physique, etc. (cyanellus). 
Ichthelis, RAFINESQUE, Ich. Ohiensis, 1820 (auritus). 
Telipomis, RAFINESQUE, Ich. Ohiensis, 1820 (cyanellus), 
Brytius, CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. (punctatus), 
Ichthelis, HOLBROOK, Ich. S. Car., 1860 (auritus and pallidus). 
Calliurus and Bryttus, GIRARD, U.S. Pac. R. R. Surv., 1858. 
Lepiopomus, JORDAN, Ann. N. Y. Lyceum Nat. Hist., 1877 (corrected orthography). 
Aenotis, JORDAN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1877, 76 (fallax). 
