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in Miiller'.s Arcli. f. Auat. 1841, p. 221 (air-bhuldrr) ; Ilyrtl, 

 Sitzgsbor. Ak. Wiss. Wieii, 1852, viii. p. 71 (air-hliulcler) ; Valentin, 

 in his Report. Anat. & Pliys. v. 1840, p. 3'J2 (air-bladder) ; Hyrtl, 

 /. <•. p. 234 (arteries). 



1. Lepidosteus viridis. 



Cateshy, 8. Carol, ii. i^l. .'iO. 



Manjuari, Parra, p. Ill, lam. 40. fig. 2. 



Esox viridis, Gm. L. i. p. l.'J89; Bl. Schn. p. 393. 



tristoechus, Bl. Schu. p. 39o. 



Lepisosteus spatula, Lacip. v. p. 333 ; Guichen. 3I(ig. Zool. 1839, Poks. 



p. 7 ; Af/ass. Poiss. Foss. ii. 2, p. 3. 

 ferox, (Baf.) Kirtland, I. c. p. 18, pi. 1. fig. 2 ; Storer, Mem. Am. 



Acad. ii. p. 4GG. 

 platyrhincus, Dekay, New York Fmin. Fish. p. 273, pi. 43. 



fig. 137. 

 ( Atractosteus) berlandieri, Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Exp. Fish. 



p. 353. 

 manjuari, Poey, Mem. Cuba, i. pp. 273, 438, pis. 28-30 (very 



detailed description of external and internal structure), ii. pp. 68, 



415; also in Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1855, p. 1.34. 

 Atractosteus tropicus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1803, p. 172. 

 Ijepidosteus tropicus, Gitnth. Trans. Zool. Soc. vi. p. 490. 



Snout rather broad, spatulate, the length of the cleft of the mouth 

 being one-half or not much more than one-half of the length of the 

 head. There are from eigliteen to twenty-two scales in an oblique 

 series ascending obliciuely forward from the root of the ventral to 

 the median line of the back. A series of stronger teeth along the 

 palatine bone, similar to the maxillary series of strong teeth. 



United States ; Central America ; Cuba. 



a. Twenty inches long : skin. Cuba. From Mr. W. S. Macleay's 

 Collection. 



b-c. Nineteen inches long. Huamuchal. From Mr. Salvin's Col- 

 lection. 



d. Si xty- two inches long : stuffed. Mexico. Purchased of Mr. War- 

 wick. 



€. Fourty-four inches long : stuffed. Mexico. Purchased of Mr. 

 Warwick. 



f-(j. Thirteen and sixteen inches long : stuffed. Mexico. Purchased 

 of Mr. Warwick. 



h. Fifty-one inches long : stuffed. North America. 



(. Skull of a very largo example (20 inches long). 



2. Lepidosteus platystomus. 



Lepisosteus platostonius, (Baf.) Kir/land. Beport on Zool. of Ohio, 

 p. 19G, and Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 20, pi. 1. fig. 3 ; Storer, I. c. 



grayi, Ayass. Poiss. Foss. ii. 2. p. 3. 



Ijopisosteus { Cvlindrostcus) Iatiri>stris, Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Fvped. 

 Fish. p. .loL'.' 



( ) oculatus, ]\'inchell,Proc.Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 183. 



