154 



quentlj with a reddish tinge along the margin of anal fin. — 

 Length, 1 to 2 feet. 



Fin-rays:— P. 16; D. C. & A., 450—460. 



A. hostonieiisisy Ayres, Boston Joiirn, oSTat. Hist., IV, p. 

 279; Storer, Mem. Am. Acad., VIII, p. 408, pi. 33, fig. 1. 



— lutea (Rafin.,) Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., IV, 

 p. 234, pi. 11, fig. 2. 



— tenuirostris, DeKay, New York Faun.. Fishes, p. 310, 

 pi. 53, fig. 173. 



This is the common eel of our creeks and small rivulets, 

 being found sometimes in large numbers among the rocks at 

 the foot of a cascade. They remain in these streams during 

 the whole year, at least the smaller ones do. 



x\cAD. Coll. S. I. 



LIX—LEPIDOSTEIDiE. 



LEPIDOSTEUS, Lacep. 



L. osseus. 



Gar-Pike. 



Body elongated, cylindrical, compressed towards the tail. 

 Scales arranged in oblique series; they are smooth, thick, 

 rhomboidal, terminating on the caudal fin in an oblique line, 

 which is directed from above, forwards. They are of stony 

 hardness in dried specimens, but may be cut with a knife in 

 recent fish. Head square, rounded above, elongated; eyes 

 large. Soiled yellowish; darker above. A broad, longitu- 

 dinal band of dusky broAvn extends from the opercles to the 

 tail just beneath the lateral line. Length, 1 to 3 feet. 



Fin-rays:— D. 8; P. 14; V. 7; A. 10; C. 14. 



L. osseus, Guenther, VIII, p. 330. 



Esox osseus, L. Syst. Nat. I, p. 516; Mitch. Trans. Phil. 

 & Lit. Soc. N. York, I, p. 444. 



Lepidosteus hison, DeKay, New York Fauna, Fish, j). 271. 

 pi. 43, fig. 139. 



— oxyui'us, Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1868, p. 87; 

 Kirtland, Report, p. 170, 196, and Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., 

 IV, p. 16, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Common in the brackish water of the Potomac, Patapsco 

 and some of the rivers of the Eastern Shore; not sold for food. 

 Acad. Coll. S. I. 



