KEPORT ON ICHTHYOLOGY. 391 



States, especiall)^ in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Philadelphia. It has been 

 nevertheless deemed advisable to accept the name rather than to apply a new one. Tt 

 is scarcely worse tluin Lumpus^ GunneilHs, Vogmanis, Kaiirjarus, Catus, liattus, and many 

 other names of similar derivation, which have been introduced into systematic nomen- 

 clature. 



C. S. Rahnesque, in the "Ichthyologia Ohiensis", also proposed for his iVm chnj- 

 sops, in case it should be found to be generically distinct from rerca, the name Lcpi- 

 hmia. He believed it to be distinguished "by the scaly leases of the caudal, anal, and 

 second dorsal fins, the last with some spiny rays, and all the three parts of the gill- 

 cover more or less serrulate, besides the small teeth ". Rafinesque suggested that to 

 this genus the Feira MikliUU of Mitchill might "iiei'haps be found to belong". 



The distinctive characters mentioned by Rafmesque alone are very trivial ; Init 

 Boccus is certainly distinguished by the presence of scales between the rays of the 

 second dorsal and anal fins from Perca, in which the membrane is })erfectly naked. 

 But the opercula are not more completely armed than in Pcrca, nor is there au}^ essen- 

 tial diiference in the size of the teeth. 



EOCCUS LINEATUS, Gill. 



Synonymy. 



SciiENA LINEATA Bloch, Iclitli.vdlosic, pars ix, p. 53, pi. 305. 



Pekca SclKupff, Sclirift. dor Gesells. Nat.-Freumle, vol. viii, p. ICO. 



Perca .saxatilis JTaWidttm, Artodi Genera Piscium, p. 330. 



Perca SAXATILIS lilnrh, Systciiia Icbtliyologint! Schneid. ed.,p. 89. 



Perca SErxEXTRiONAi.is Block, Systeina Ichtbyologia Sclineid. ed., ]). 90, pi. 70. 



Centropome RAYf: Tmc, Hist. Nat. dcs Poissous, vol. iv, p. 225. 



Roccu.s .STRiATUS ililchiU, Rfiport. in part, on the Fishes of New York, p. 2.">, 181'1. 



Perca Mitchii.i.i Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i, p. 413, pi. 3, fig. 4. 



Rock Fish Mease, Trans. Lit. and I'hil. Soe. N. Y., vol. i, p. 502. 



Perca Mitchii.i.i ? j,^j- Iclitliyolosia Ohiensis, p. 23 (passim). 



LERIBEMA MiTCIIILI.I ) ■' ' .' " . 1 VI 



Labbax line.vtus Curier and Val, Hist. Nat. dcs Poissons, vol. ii, p. 79. 



Perca laisrax ! Smilh, N.at. Hist. Fishes of Mass., p. 277. 



L.IBRAX LINEATUS lUcli, Fauna Horcali-Anieriuana, vol. iii, p. 10. 



Labkax LINEATUS Slorer, Repurt on the Fishes of Mass., p. 7. 



Labrax LINEATUS Jjccs, Hostoii .Tonm. Nat. Hist., vol. iv, p. 707. 



Labrax LINEATUS I)e Kmj, Zoillogy of N. Y. Fishes, p. 7, pi. 1, fig. 3. 



Labrax lineatos Liimlcy, Catalogue of Fishes of Connecticut. 



L.4BRAX LINEATUS Storcr, Synopsis Fi.shes of N. America, p. 21 ; lb. in Memoiis Am. Acail. 



Labrax linkatus Storer, Hist. Fishes of Mass. ; ib. in Memoirs Am. Acad. vol. v, p. .55, pi. 1, fig. 1, 18.53. 



Labr.^x LINEATUS, liaird, Report on Fishes of New Jersey Coast, p. — ; ib. in Ninth Annual Report of Smith. Inst., p. 321. 



Labrax lineatus Holbrook, Ichthyology of South Carolina, p. 17, pi. iv, fig. 2. 



Labrax lineatus Gill, Annual Report Smith. Inst., 1857, p. 255. 



Labrax LINEATUS Giinlhtr, Catalogue of the Acauthopterygian Fishes in the Collection of the British Museum, 



vol.i.p. C4. 

 Roccus LINEATUS Gill, Procoodings Acad, of N.atural Sciences of Phila., 18G0, p. 04. 



EOCCUS CHEYSOPS, Gill. 

 Synonymy. 



Perca ciiRVSOrs ) j. j- icbthyologia Ohiensis, p. 28. 



Lepibema cnuYsops S j » . 



Labrax mcltilineatus Cuv. and Vol., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vol. iii, p. 588. 



Perca multii.ineata /-f«.,./i<fe C«r., and Val. 



Labrax not.atus Smith, in Rich. Fauna Boreali-Americana, vol. iii, i>. 8, 1836. 



Labrax mdltilineatus Kirtland, Boston Journal Nat. Hist., vol. v, p. 21, pi. 7 fig. 1 ; Visitor, p. 53, 1859. 



