1885.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 369 



Esox scomberius Mitchill, Arner. Monthly Mag., 1818, 322 (Murderer's 

 Creek, N. Y.); De Kay, X. Y. Fauna, Fish, 1842, 225 (copied). 



Esox fasciatus De Kay, X. Y. Fauna, Fish, 1842, 224, pi. 34, fig. 110 

 (Long Island). 



Esox ornatus Girard, "Proc. Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., 1854, 41 " (Massa- 

 chusetts); Storer, Hist. Fish, Mass., 1867, 313 (Boston market). 



Esox ravenelii Holbrook, Ichthyol. S. C, 1855, 201 (South Carolina); 

 Cope, Proc. Acad, Xat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 79 (Catawba River); Cope, 

 Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1870, 457 (Catawba River); Giruther, Cat. 

 Fish, Brit. Mus., vi, 1866, 230 (copied); Jordan, Annals X. Y. 

 Lyceum Xat. Hist., vol. x ; , 1877, 3C8 (Coosa R., Georgia); Jordan 

 & Brayton. Bull. U. S. Xat. Mus., xii, 1878, 16 (Catawba River); 

 Goode, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1879, 117. 



Picorellus ravenelii Jordan & Copeland, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Xat. Sci., 



1875, 143 (Check list). 



Habitat. — Coastwise streams from the Charles River, Mass., to 

 the Savannah River, Georgia. 



The specimen examined by us is from the market. 



The synonymy of the species offers little room for question, 

 although some of the earlier descriptions are very scanty. 



2. Esox vermiculatus. 



Esox vermiculatus (Le Sueur MSS.) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Xat. 



Poiss., xviii, 1846, 233 (Wabash Valley); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 



U. S. Xat. Mus., 1884, 110 ; Forbes, 111. State Fish Comm., 1884, 71 



(Illinois); Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1884, £09 (East Fo:k of 



White River, Indiana); Gilbert, Pioc. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1884, 208 



(Switz City Swamp, Greene Co., Indiana) ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. X. A., 



50, 1835. 

 Esox lineatus (Le Sueur MSS.) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Xat. 



Poiss., 1846, 335 (Wabash Valley, young). 

 Esox umbrosus Kiitland, " Cleveland Annals of Sciences, 1854, 79" 



(near Cleveland, Ohio); Cope, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1835, 79; 



Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1866, 409 (Grosse Isle, Michigan); 



Hay, Bull. U. S. Xat. Mus., 1882, 67, 74 (Memphis; Jackson; 



Vaughans ; Granada). 

 ? Esox crassus Agassiz. Amer. Jour. Sci. & Arts, 1854, 308 (Tennessee 



River, at Huntsville, Alabama); Cope, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila.. 



1865, 79 (copied); Jordan & Copeland, Bull. Buffalo Soc Xat. Sci., 



1876, 143 (Check list). 



Esox cypho Cope, Proc Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 78 (Waterford, 

 Oakland Co., Michigan); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vi, 1866, 

 230 (copied); Jordan Annals X. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. i, Xo. 4, 1877, 

 368 (Fox River, Illinois); Xelson, Bull. 111. Mus. Xat. Hist., i, 1877, 

 43 (Fox River at Geneva); Jordan, Bull. U. S. Geol. Sur. Terr., iv, 

 1878, 432; Jordan* Man. Vert. Ed., iii, 1880, 267. 

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