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quatre rayons a la seconde ; deux rayons aiguillones etonze rayons 

 articules a la uageoire de 1'anus ; la caudale en croissant ; un 

 ou deux aiguillons a la seconde piece de chaque opercule." 

 [Br. 5; P. 16; V. I, 5; C. 17]. (LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. des 

 Pviss., IV, 325, 1801). 



BODIANUS ACHIGAN Rafinesque, 1817. "Lower jaw much 

 longer, gill-covers with two flat and short thorns, lateral line 

 nearly straight, base ascending diagonal ; blackish with round 

 scattered fulvous spots, belly gray, fins brown, the dorsal de- 

 pressed in the middle and with twenty-five rays, whereof ten are 

 spinescent, tail lunulated, with a gray edge. 06s. vulgar names 

 in the United States Black Bass, Lake Bass, Big Bass, Oswego 

 Bass, Spotted Bass, etc. , and in Canada Achigan or Achigan verd 

 or Achigan noir; but many species are probably blended under 

 those names, this is probably the Achigan of Charlevoix. Jt is a 

 fine fish, from one to three feet long, and weighing sometimes eight 

 to twelve pounds, affording a good food, etc. It is found in all 

 the large lakes of New York and Canada. It has many rows 

 of small teeth, and is voracious; eyes blue, iris gilt-brown; anal 

 fin with fifteen rays, whereof three are spinescent and short, 

 pectoral fins fulvous dotted of brown at the base, and with fif- 

 teen rays, thoracic fins with six rays, whereof the first is spines- 

 cent, caudal fins with twenty rays. This species and the forego- 

 ing have six branchial rays, and the gill-covers are composed of 

 four pieces, all scaly except the second. Body more cylindrical 

 than in the foregoing." (RAFINESQUE, Amer. Hon. Mag. and 

 Grit. Rev. II, 120, 1817.) 



CALLIURUS PUNCTULATUS Rafinesque, 1820. "Lower jaw 

 longer; body olivaceous, crowded with blackish dots; head 

 brownish, flattened above; lateral line hardly curved upward 

 at the base ; tail unequally bilobed, lower lobe larger, base yel- 

 low, middle blackish, tip white ; dorsal fin yellow, with 24 rays, 

 of which ten are spiny. 



An uncommon fish from four to twelve inches long. I ob- 

 served it at the Falls; rare in the Ohio, more common in some 



