110 ROOK OF THE P.I.ACK BASS. 



larger than first; dorsal notch rather sliallow ; scales smaller 

 than in M. pallidus—e\e\en rows between lateral line and dorsnl; 

 mouth smaller; anal nearly scaleless ; D. X, 13; A. Ill, 11; 

 lat. 1. 70 to 80. Great lakes and streams from L. Champlain 

 8. and W.; common in New York and in most reuions west of 

 the Alleghanies; introduced eastward." — (Jordan, Manual 

 Vertebrates E. U. S. 2d ed. 236, 1878.) 



MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES (Lac.) IIenshall. 

 THE LAEGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS. 



SYXONYMY. 



1802 — Lahrus sabnoidcs Lacepede, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. IV, 



716. 

 Grijstes salmoides Agassiz, Lake Superior, 295, 1850. 

 Grystes salmoides Holbrook, Ich. So. Car. 25, 1855, and 



2d ed. 28, 1860. 

 Gnjstes salmoides Norris, Am. Angler's Book, 99, 1864. 



(In part.) 

 Dioplites salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt, ]MSS, Miss. 



Sfi. au Mexique, 1874. 

 Microptenis salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique: ined. 

 1820 — Lrpomis jjalUda Rafinesque, Ich. Ohiensis, 30. 



Micropterus j)aUidm Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 



XI, 314, 1877. 

 Micropterus pallidus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. ^NIus. IX 



and X, 1877. 

 Micropterm pallidus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. XII, 



1878. 

 Micropicrus jxtllidiis Jordan, Hayd. Geol. Surv. Ter. 



Bull. IV, No. 2, 435, 1878. 



