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Terca of Linnaais. I have nevertheless chosen to take that name rather than to give 

 a new one. 



At least two species are now Icnown ot the genus Muroiw. One i>i' tlieui is the 

 well-known "White Perch" of the eastern coast; the other is our Morone interriqita, a. 

 species that had been erroneously described uudei- the name Lahrax iJtrijsops. 



The synonymy of each species will be given, but a description is only oftered of 



the Moroiic httcrnipfd. 



MOKONE AMERICANA, GiLL. 



Sijnonijmij. 



Pehc\ Schoepff', Schiift. der Gesells. Xat.-Fieiiudc, vol. viii, p. l.')i). 



Perca AMERICANA Cmtl., Systenia Natiira', vol. i, pars iii, p. 1308. 



Perca Sckoepf, Natiirforsclier, vol. xx, p. 17. 



Perca i.mmaculat.^ JTalbamn, Artcdi Genera Pisciuiii, p. 330. 



Pebca AMERICANA Bloch. .Systema Iclitliyolo{;ia', Scbnekl. ed. 



Perca americaxa Lac, Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. iv, p. 4V2. 



Morone kufa Mitchill, Report, iu part, on the Fishes of New Yoik, p. 18. 



BoDiANUS RUFL'.s 3IikhiU, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of New York, vol. i, ji. 120, .Ian., 1^11. 



BoDiANUS RUKL'S, Centropomiis albas Kaf. ; Priieise des d^eouvertes SoniiidoKiqnes, p. I'J, Juni', 1814. 



Perca mccroxata Bn/., American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, vol. ii, p. 20r>. 



Laurax MCCRoNATls Cm-, and I'd/., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. ii, p. ■'I, pi. 121. 



BoDlAXl'S Rll-u.s Smilh, Nat. Hist. I'ishes of Mass., p. 274. 



Labrax mucronatus Storer, Report on Ichthyology of Mass., p. s. 



Perca mucrox.itus (misprint) Sw., Nat. Hist, of Fishes, Amphibious and Koptilc, vol. ii, p. IJrf, l-i3'J. 



Labrax rufus De Kai/, Nat. Hist, of New York Fishes, p. '.I, pi. 3, fig. 7. 



Labrax mucronatus Ayres, Boston Journal Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 257. 



Labra.x mucronatus iiiisZt^, Catalogue of Fishes of Connecticut. 



Labrax rufus iS(orc-r, Synopsis of the Fishes of North America, p. 22 ; ib. in Memoirs of American Academy, new se- 

 ries, vol. ii, p. 274. 184fi. 



Labrax rufus Storer, Hist, of the Fishes of Mass., p. 1 ; ib. iu Memoirs of American Acad., new series, vol. v, p. T)/. 



Labrax mucronatus liaird. Report ou Fishes of New Jersey Coast, p. 8 ; ib. in Ninth Annual Report of Smith. Inst., p. 

 322, ia-)5. 



Labrax americ.inus Bolbrook, Ichthyology of South Carolina, p. 21, pi. 3, tig. 2, 1855. 



Labrax rufus GiU, Annual Report of Smith. Inst., p. 256, 18.57. 



Labrax mucronatus IliU, Catalogue of Fish of Jamaica, p. 1. 



Labrax rufus Giinther, Catalogue of the Acauthopterygian Fishes of the British Muaouui, p. 65. 



Labrax nigricans De A'oy, Nat. Hist, of New Y'ork Fishes, p. 12, pi. .50, fig. 160, 1842. 



Labrax nigricans Slorir, Synopsis of the Fishes of North America ; ib. iu Memoirs of .\merican Acad., vol. ii, p. 23, 1846. 



Grystes nigricans rar. 1 Herbert, Frank Forresters Fish and Fishing in the United States, vol. i, p. 191. 



Morone pallida AlilchUt, Report, iu part, on the Fishes of New York, p. 18. 



BODIANUS PALLIDUS J/i/cAi??, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of New York, vol. i, p. 420. 



BODIANUS PALLIDUS Smith, Nat. Hist, of Fishes of Mass., p. 294. 



Labrax i'allidus De Kay, Nat. Hist, of New Y'ork Fishes, p. 11, pi. 1, tig. 2, 1842. 



L.VBRAX PALLIDUS Storer, Synopsis of the Fishes of North America, p. 22 ; ib. iu Memoirs of American Acad., vol. ii, p. 22. 



Labrax pallidus Perley, Report upon the Fishes of the Bay of Fundy, p. 121, 1851. 



Labrax p.u.lidus jPer/ty, Descriptive Catalogue (iu part) of Fishes of New Brunswick an<l Nova Scotia, p. 4; ib. in 



Reports (Ui Sea and River Fisheries of New Brunswick, p. 182, 1852. 

 Labrax pallidus GiiiillKr, Catalogue of the Acanthopterygiau Fishes of tho British Miisonm, p. 67. 



The history of this species and its nonienclature has been fully discussed in the 

 monograph published iu the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences. It is 

 therefore unnecessary to reproduce it in this report, the species not being an inhabitant 

 of those regions traveled over l)y the exi)edition under Captain Simpson. 



Giinther has recently, in his "Catalogue of the Acauthopterygian Fishes in the 

 Collection of the British ]\Iuseum", retained the Lahmx pallidii.s and Lahrax nifiis as 

 di.stinct species. We see no reason to change our opinion concerning their identity 

 expressed in our monograph. 



