414 NEW SPECIES OF [November, 



long, it was taken by the seine at Buffalo on Lake Erie. 

 The vulgar names Pike, Pickrel and Maskalionge are 

 given to it indiscriminately. In the language of the Wy- 

 andott Indians the general appellation to fish of this ge- 

 nus, is ThuCy ha^ re^ sah^ an, 



2. E. reticulatus. Body with blackish lines, forming 

 an irregular reticulation of more or less oblong spaces, 

 above deep green, sides golden, belly white, immaculate, 

 scales margined with black. 



My collection. 



Form and proportions of the body as in the preceding 

 species; Jins greenish, immaculate, dorsal and anal fins 

 unequal, the former larger, caudal fin furcate with obtuse, 

 subequal, lobes; scales margined with blackish, emargi- 

 na : ore profound than in the preceding species; inferior 

 lateral teeth compressed, acutely edged and pointed; 

 lower jaw longer, slightly recurved; mouth large, angle 

 continued under the anterior canthus of the eye; eyes 

 subovate, iris brown and yellow, pupil black; colour 

 golden-yellow on the sides, passing to deep green, or 

 blackish, on the back and head, with reflexions of slate 

 grey more or less deep along the base of the back, rose, 

 violet and green are generally mixed with the golden tint 

 reflected by the scales. 



B. 15, D. 18, P. 16, V. 11, A. 17, C. 19f 



Length variable, from one to two feet; at Adams, on 

 Connecticut river, where this species was observed, I was 

 informed that specimens occurred which weighed seven 

 pounds each. 



Vulgar names the same as the preceding. 



Those which are brought to the Philadelphia market 



