1 . M;r!i)()s;i;rs. 329 



ill M.iUcr's Ardi. I' Aiiat. IS-il, p. 221 (air-Maddci) ; Jlyrtl, 

 Sit/jj:sbt'r. Ak. Wiss. Vt'ieii, 1S.")2. viii. p. 71 (air-bladder) ; Valentin, 

 in his Rq-.crt. Anat. & ]*liys. v. lS-!(t, p. 3i)2 (air-bladder) ; Hyrtl, 

 /. c. p. 2-54 (arteries). 



1 . Lepidosteus viridis. 



Cdtcshi/, .V. Carol, ii. pi. 30. 



Manjuari, Parnt, p. 1 1 1, lam. 40. fig. 2. 



Esox viridis, (Jm. L. i. p. I;i8<.); Bl. Schn. p. :59.'5. 



tristoechiis, J)l. Sc/in. p. '.M)'). 



Lepisosteus .spatvila, Lac&p. v. p. ;J3;5 ; Giiichcn. Mafj. Zool. 1839, I'ohs. 



p. 7 ; Afid^s. Poiss. lu>f!s. ii. 2. p. 3. 

 fero.v, {liaf.) Kirtla/id, I c. p. 18, pb 1. fig. 2; Storer, Mem. Am. 



Acad. ii. p. 4()(). 

 platyrliincus, JJekai/, Nea. York Faun. Fis/i. p. 273, pi. 43. 



fig. 137. 

 (Atractosteus) berlaudieri, Girard, U. S. Pac. Ii. P. Exp. Fish. 



p. 353. 

 nianjuari, Poey, 3Iem. Cuba, i. pp. 273, 438, pis. 28-30 (very 



detailed description of exti'rnal and internal structure), ii. pp. 68, 



415 ; also in Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. Ni-u- York, 1855, p. 134. 

 Atr.actosteus tropicus, GUI, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 18G3, p. \1'Z. 

 Lepidosteus ti'opicus, Giinth. Trans. Zool. Sue. vi. p. 400. 



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 arc from eighteen to twenty-two scales in an oblique 

 series ascending obliquely 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. 



6-e. Nineteen inches long. Huamuchal. From ]Mr. Salvin's Col- 

 lection. 



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



wick. 



e. Fourty-fuur inches long : stuffed. Mexico. Purchased of Mr. 



"^^^arwick. 

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



of Mr. Warwick. 

 /(. Fifty-one inches long : stuffed. North America. 

 ('. Skull of a very large example (20 inches long). 



2. Lepidosteus platystomus. 



Lepisosteus platostonuis, {Raf.) Kirfland, Pcport on Zool. of Ohio, 

 p. 19(), and Post. Jotavi. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 20, pi. 1. fig. 3 ; Storer, I. c. 



f^i'iiyi) Afjass. Poi-^s. Foss. ii. 2. p. 3. 



Le))isosteus (Cylindrosteus) latirostris, Girard, U. S. Pae. R. P. Kijxd. 

 Fish. p. .'{52. 



( -) oeuliitu.-^, U'inc/ie/l,Pror.Ac. Nd. Sr. Phi/ad. l^;(54,p. IS:"!. 



