Fishes . Fig. 404—Blue-Gill, Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill). Potomac River. Species of this type is the warmouth {Chcsnobryttus gidosus)of the ponds of the South, and still more familiar rock-bass. Fig. 405.—Long-eared Sunfish, Lepomis >?iegnlotis (Rafinesque). From ClearCreek, Bloomington, Indiana. Family Cenlrarchidce. or redeye (Ambloplites rnpestris) of the more northern lakesand rivers valued as a game- and food-fish. A very pretty 5i6 Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes aquarium fish is the black-banded sunfish, Mesogonistius chccto-don, of the Delaware, as also the nine-spined sunfish, Enne

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Fishes . Fig. 404—Blue-Gill, Lepomis pallidus (Mitchill). Potomac River. Species of this type is the warmouth {Chcsnobryttus gidosus)of the ponds of the South, and still more familiar rock-bass. Fig. 405.—Long-eared Sunfish, Lepomis >?iegnlotis (Rafinesque). From ClearCreek, Bloomington, Indiana. Family Cenlrarchidce. or redeye (Ambloplites rnpestris) of the more northern lakesand rivers valued as a game- and food-fish. A very pretty 5i6 Percoidea, or Perch-like Fishes aquarium fish is the black-banded sunfish, Mesogonistius chccto-don, of the Delaware, as also the nine-spined sunfish, Enneacan-thiis gloriosHS, of the coast streams southward. Apomotis cyanel-Ins, the blue-green sunfish or little redeye, is very widely dis-tributed from Ohio westward, living in every brook. The dis-section of this species is given on page 26. To Lepoviis belongnumerous species having the opercle prolonged in a long flapwhich is always black in color, often with a border of scarlet orblue. The yellowbelly of the South (Lepomis auritus), car-likethe showily colored long-eared sunfish {Lepomis megalotis) of the

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