Contribiitio7is to the Ichthyology of Ohio. 1 23 



My former list and the present one aggregate one Intnderd and 

 ten species, distributed among twenty-four families, which I think 

 is fully two-thirds of the entire number of known species to be 

 found in Oiiio waters. Next summer I hope to add to these lists- 

 by exploring the streams in the interior of the State, on both side& 

 of the wdter-shed separating the waters of Lake Erie from those of 

 the Ohio Valley. 



A number of fishes which I know to be common to Lake Erie,, 

 and some that belong to the Ohio River system, are not mcluded 

 in these lists, and will not be until I have positively identified them 

 as existing within the limits of the State. 



I am arranging a series of species from these collections for the 

 Museum of the Society, and shall add to it from time to time as 

 opportunity offers; for I deem it of the utmost importance that the 

 Society should possess as complete an exhibition of the fishes of 

 Ohio waters as possible. Heretofore this branch of the fauna of ' 

 the State of Ohio has been entirely ignored or neglected, for I find, 

 outside of my ovvn collections, but four specimens of Ohio fishes 

 in the Museum of the Society — a sturgeon, a paddle-fish, a gar and 

 an eel. 



In the following list the name of the original describer of each 

 species is alone given, as in the first list. Where the original corn- 

 bin ition of generic and specific title is still retained, the name of 

 the author is primed without parentheses; where, however, the 

 original describer places the species in question in a genus different 

 from the one here adopted, the author's name is inclosed in 

 parentheses — following the plan adopted by Dr. D. S. Jordan in 

 his last edition of "Manual of the Vertebrates. ' 



Those families marked with an (*) asterisk are additional to the 

 first list. 



Family L — PtTROMVzoNTiDiE. * 



1. Petromyzon c ncol<jr (Kirtland). Lamprey. A specimen: 

 of this species, about six inches long, was presented by Dr. Chas. 

 E Caldwell, it having passed through a hydrant pipe in a house 



in the city. 



Family IL — LEPisosrEiDiE. * 



2. Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus). Long-nosed Gar. Ohio 

 River ; Lake Erie. 



3. Lepisosteus platysiomus Rafinesque. Short-nosed Gar^ 

 Lake Erie. 



