368 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1885. 



66. Branchiostegals 14 to 16; D. 14; A. 13; scales in lateral 

 line about 125 ; middle of eye midwa}^ between tip of 

 lower jaw and posterior margin of opercle ; head about 3^ 

 in length of body ; snout 2^ in head ; eye 3^ in snout. 

 Color greenish, marked with numerous narrow dark lines 

 and streaks which are mostly horizontal, and are more or 

 less reticulated ; fins plain. Reticulatus. 3. 



aa. Cheeks scaly ; lower half of opercle bare ; branchiostegals 14 

 to 16 ; D. 16 or 17 ; A. 13 or 14 ; scales in lateral line 123 ; 

 head 3.' { - in length of body ; snout 2| in length of head ; eye 

 3 in length of snout : middle of eye midwaj' between tip of 

 lower jaw and posterior margin of opercle. Color grayish 

 with many whitish spots, the young barred; dorsal, anal, 

 and caudal fins spotted with black ; a white horizontal bar 

 bounding the naked portion of opercle. Lucius. 4. 



nna. Cheeks as well as opercles bare on lower half; branchioste- 

 gals 17 to 19 ; D. 17 ; A. 15 ; scales in the lateral line about 

 150 ; middle of eye midway between tip of lower jaw and 

 posterior margin of opercle ; head 3| in length of body ; 

 snout 2* in head; eye more than four times in length of 

 snout. Color dark gray, sides with round blackish spots ; 

 fins spotted with black. Masquinongy. 5. 



I . Esox americanus. 



Esox americanus Schoepf, ' ' Naturforscher, torn, xx, 1784, 26" (Long 

 Island). 



Esox lucvisil americanus Gmelin, Systema Naturae, 1788, 1390 (based 

 on Schoepf). 



Esox americanus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 1803, 299; Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xviii, 184(1, 329 (Saratoga Lake), 

 Jordan, Annals N. T. Acad. Nat. Hist., vol. i, No. 4, 1877, 104 

 (Delaware River ; bong Island); Jordan, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur. Ter., 

 iv, 1878, 132 ; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 285 (McBean creek, 

 Georgia) ; Goode and Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., vol. ix, 1879, 22 (•New- 

 ham Lake, Mass.); Bean, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1880, 104 (Pier- 

 mont, N. V.: Trenton, N. J.; Long Island); .Jordan, Man. Vert. Ed. 

 iii, 1880, 26'J ; Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.. 21, 1880, 32; Jordan 

 and Gilbeit, Syn. Fish, N. A.. L882, 352; Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A. 

 50, 1885. 



Picbrellus americanus Jordan and Copeland, Bull. Buffalo Sue-. Nat. 

 Bci., 1876, 1 13 (<hcck List). 



Kxnx niij i r Le Sueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1817, 415 (South 

 Carolina ). 



