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larger than first; dorsal notch rather shallow; scales smaller 

 than in 31. pallidus — eleven rows between lateral line and dorsal ; 

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

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

 S. 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.) Henshall. 

 THE LAEGE-MOUTHED BLACK BASS. 



SYNONYMY. 



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



716. 

 Grystes saJmoides Agassiz, Lake Superior, 295, 1850. 

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



2d ed. 28, 1860. 

 Grystes salmoides Noeris, Am. Angler's Book, 99, 1864. 



(In part.) 

 Dioplites sahnoides Vaillant & Bocourt, INISS, Miss. 



Sei. au Mexique, 1874. 

 Micropterus salmoides Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. 



au Mexique: ined. 

 1820 — Lepomis pallida Rafinesque, Ich. Ohiensis, 30. 



3Iicropterus pallidus Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 



XI, 314, 1877. 

 3Iicropterus 2)(dHdus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. IX 



and X, 1877. 

 Micropterus pallidus Jordan, Bull. U. S. Nat. ]\Ius. XII, 



1878. 

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



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



