626 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



(J. Head short, 3f in length of body; snout 2% in length of head; eye 2% in length 



of snout. Color dark green; sides with about 20 distinct curved blackish bars; 



fins plain. AMERICANUS, 921. 



dd. Head longer, 3% * n length of body; snout 2 in length of head; eye 2% in length 



of snout. Color light greenish, the sides with many narrow curved streaks of 



darker; these usually distinct, irregular, and much reticulated; fins plain. 



VERMICULATUS, 922. 



cc. Branchiostegals 14 to 16; dorsal rays 14; anal 13; scales in lateral line about 125; 

 middle of eye midway between tip of lower jaw and posterior margin of opercle; 

 head about 3% in length of body; snout 2% in head; eye 3% in snout. Color 

 greenish, with many narrow dark curved lines and streaks, mostly horizontal and 

 more or less reticulated; fins plain. RETICULATUS, 923. 



Lucius: 



bb. Operclos with the lower half bare of scales; branch iostegals 14 to 16; dorsal rays 16 or 17; 

 anal rays 13 or 14; scales in lateral line about 123; head 3% in length of body; snout 

 2| in length of head; eye 3 in snout; middle of eye midway between tip of lower jaw 

 and gill opening. Color grayish, with many whitish spots, the young with whitish or 

 yellowish crossbars; dorsal, anal, and caudal spotted with black; a white horizontal 

 band bounding naked portion of opercle. Size large. LUCIUS, 924. 



MASCALONGUS (masca, mask; longus, long):* 



a. Cheeks as well as opercles with the lower half naked; branchiostegals 17 to 19; dorsal 

 rays 17; anal rays 15; scales in lateral lino about 150; middle of eye midway between 

 tip of lower jaw and gill opening; head 3% in length of body; snout 2% in head; 

 eye more than 4 times in length of snout. Color dark gray, the sides usually with 

 scattered round black spots, sometimes immaculate, sometimes banded with dark; 

 fins spotted with black; size very large. MASQUINONGY, 925. 



Subgenus KENOZA, Jordan & Evermann. 

 921. LUCIUS AMERICANUS (Gmelin). 



(BANDED PICKEREL.) 



Head 3? ; depth 5i ; eye 5. B. 12 or 13 ; P. 11 or 12 ; A. 11 or 12 ; scales 

 105. Body short and robust ; head heavy, with blunt, short snout ; eye 

 rather large, its diameter 2f in length of snout, its posterior margin 

 scarcely behind middle of head, its middle nearer tip of chin than gill 

 opening ; snout 2i in head. Cheeks and opercles fully scaled ; upper 

 branchiostegals scaly. Dark green ; sides with about twenty distinct, 

 blackish, curved bars, sometimes obscurely marked, but not distinctly 

 reticulated ; a black bar below eye, another from upper edge of opercle 

 through eye to snout ; fins plain. Length 12 inches. A small pickerel, 

 abundant from Massachusetts to Florida, in lowland streams and swamps. 

 Found only east of the Allegheny Mountains, the westernmost record 

 being from Escambia River, at Flomaton, Alabama. 



Esox lucius /3 americanus, GMELIN, Systema Naturae, 1390, 1788, Long Island, New York; 



after SCHOPF. 

 Esox niger, LE SUEUR, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 415, South Carolina ; GUNTHER, 



Cat., vi, 229, 1866. 



Esox scomberius, MITCHILL, Amer. Month. Mag., 1818, 322, Murderer's Creek, New York. 

 Etox fasciatm, DE KAY, New York Fauna: Fishes, 224, 1842, Murderer's Creek and other 



streams near New York. 



Esoxornalus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 41, Charles River, Massachusetts. 

 Esox raveneli, HOLBROOK, Ichth. South Carolina, 201, 1860, Charleston, South Carolina. 

 Esox americanus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 352, 1883. 



* An erroneous etymology of the word muscalonge, formerly supposed to be from the French 

 Mas(jue.allongee, long face. The word is now known to be of Indian origin, Mas-Kinonge. 

 Kinonge is apparently the same word as Kenoza. 



