1. AMIA. li2o 



1. AMIA. 

 A mia, L. tiyst. Nat. i. p. 500 ; Cuv. i^- Val. xix. p. 402 ; Vogt, Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. 1845, July ; Miil/cr, Ahhandl. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1844, p. 204; 

 Frunque, Amice calva; Anatomia, Berl. 1847, fol. c. tab. ; Heckel, 

 Sitzgsher. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1851, vi. p. 221. 



Body elongate, subcyliudrical, compressed behind. Snout short, 

 rounded ; cleft of the mouth of moderate width. Jaws with an 

 outer series of closely set pointed teeth, and with a band of rasp- 

 like teeth ; similar teeth on the vonier, palatine, and pterygoid bones. 

 One long dorsal, a short anal, aud rounded caudal tin. Ventral fins 

 well developed. A single large gular plate ; ten to twelve branchio- 

 stegids. Gills four. No pseudobranchia ; air-bladder bifurcate iu 

 front, cellular, comiuunicatiug with tlic pharj-nx. Stomach with a 

 blind sac ; no pyloric appendages ; a rudimentary spiral valve in 

 the rectum. No closed oviduct. 



Fresh waters of the United States. 



1. Amia calva. 



Bow-fia; Mud-fish. 



Amia calva, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 500 ; Schoepff, Scltrift. ntrf. Freutid. 



Berl. viii. p. 174 : Btmnaterre, Encycl. p. 140 ; Bl. Schn. p. 451, 



pi. 80 ; Cur. Reyne An. ; Kirtland, Bust. Jotini. Nat. Hist. iii. 



p. 479, pi. 20. fig-. 1 ; Dtkny, Netv York Faun. Fish. p. 270 ; Storer, 



Synopsis Fish. N. Amer. p. 212. 

 ocellicauda, Richards. Faun. Bor.-Amcr. iii. p. 230 ; Cuv. ^- Val. 



xix. p. 423 ; Girard, U. S. Pac. R.R. E.cp. Fish. p. 349. 

 occideutalis, Dekay, I. c. p. 2G9, pi. 39. f. 125} Cuu. &> Val. xix. 



p. 429 ; Girard, I. c. p. 350. 



marmorata, Cuv. |- Val. xix. p. 412, pis. 577 & 578. 



ornata, Cuv. ^- Val. xix. p. 420. 



viridis, Cuv. ^ Val. xix. p. 421. 



canina, Cuv. ^- Val. xix. p. 424. 



liutigiuosa, Cuv. ^- Val. xix. p. 426. 



subcasrulea, Cuv. ^- Val. xix. p. 427. 



cinerea, Cuv. ^- Val. xix. p. 430. 



reticulata, Cuv. Hf Val. xix. p. 431. 



D. 47-50. A. 12. L. lat. Go-70. L. transv. 9/17. 



The height of the body is rather less than the length of the head, 

 and about one-fourth of the total (without caudal). 

 North America. 



a,h,c-d. Adult (24 inches), half- grown, and young. North 



America. 

 e. Adult: skin. Lake rontcharlrain. Purchased of Mr. Parnell. 



