626 Bulletin 47, Untied States Natiofial Museum. 



(I. Head short, 3f in length of body; snout 2^ in length of head; eye 2% iu length 



of snout. Color dark green; sides with about 20 distinct curved blackish bars; 



fins plain. americanus, 921. 



dd. Head longer, 3)^ in length of body; snout 2J in length of head; eye 2J^ in length 



of snout. Color light greenish, the sides ivith many narmw curved streaks of 



darker; these usually distinct, irregular, and much reticulated; fins plain. 



VEBMICULATUS, 922. 



CO. Branch lostegalB 11 to 16; dorsal rays 14; anal 13; scales in lateral line about 125; 



middle of eye midway between tip of lower jaw and posterior margin of opercle; 



head about 3'^ in length of body; snout 2}-^ in head; eye 33^ in snout. Color 



greenish, with many narrow dark curved lines and streaks, mostly horizontal and 



more or less i-eticulated; fins plain. reticulatus, 923. 



Lucn's; 



fcfc. Opercles with the lower half bare of scales; branchiostegals 14 to 16; dorsal rays 16 or 17; 



anal rays 13 or 14; scales in lateral line about 123; head 3J4 J" length of body; snout 



2g in length of head; eye 3 in snout; middle of eye midway between tip of lower jaw 



and gill opening. Color grayish, with many whitish spots, the young with whitish or 



yellowish crossbars; dorsal, anal, and caudal spotted with black; a white horizontal 



band bounding naked portion of opercle. Size large. Lucius, 924. 



Mascalonous {}nas,a, mask; lonrjus, long):* 



aa. Cheeks as well as opercles with the lower half naked; branchiostegals 17 to 19; dorsal 



rays 17; aual rays 15; scales in lateral line about 150; middle of eye midway between 



tip of lower jaw and gill opening; head 3% in length of body; snout 2]^ in head; 



eye more than 4 times in length of snout. Color dark .gray, the sides usually with 



scattered round black spots, sometimes immaculate, sometimes banded with dark; 



fins spotted with black; size very large. masquinongv, 925. 



Subgenus KENOZA, Jordan & Evermann. 



921. LUC'llS AMERICANUS (Gmelin). 



(Banded Pickerel.) 



Head 3? ; depth 5i ; eye 5. B. 12 or 13 ; D. 11 or 12 ; A. 11 or 12 ; scales 



105. Body short and robust; head heavy, with blunt, short snout; eye 



rather large, its diameter 2| in length of snout, its posterior margin 



scarcely behind middle of head, its middle nearer tip of chin than gill 



opening ; snout 2i in head. Cheeks and opercles fully scaled ; upper 



branchiostegals scaly. Dark green ; sides with about twenty distinct, 



blackish, curved bars, sometimes obscurely marked, but not distinctly 



reticulated ; a black bar below eye, another from upper edge of opercle 



through eye to snout ; fins plain. Length 12 inches. A small pickerel, 



abundant from Massachusetts to P^lorida, in lowland streams and swamps. 



Found only east of the Alleghany Mountains, the westernmost record 



being from Escambia Eiver, at Flomaton, Alabama. 



Esux lucius /3 americanus, Gmelin, Systema Natura', 1390, 1788, Long Island, New York- 



after Schopf. 

 Esox niyer, JjE SVEVR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. I'hila., i, 1818, 415, South Carolina; Guntheu, 



Cat., VI, 229, 1866. 

 Esox scomberius, Mitciiill, Amer. Month. Mag., 1818, 322, Murderer's Creek, New York. 

 Esox fasciatus, De Kay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 224,1842, Murderer's Creek and other 



streams near New York. 

 Esox oriinlus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phila., 1854, 41, Charles River, Massachusetts. 

 Esox raveneU, HoLBROOK, Ichth. South Carolina, 201, 1800, Charleston, South Carolina. 

 Esox aniericanna, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 352, 1883. 



* An erroneous etymology of the word muscalonge, formerly supposed to be from the French 

 Mos(/ue allongce, long face. The word is now known to bo of Indian origiu, Mas-Kinonge. 

 h'inoiiyc is apparently the same word as A'ewo-a. 



