416 NEW SPECIES, &c. LNovcTTber, 



opercula, preopercula and subopercula scaly, as in the 

 preceding species. 



B. 17, P. 15, V. 9. D. 14, A. 14, C. 194-?. 



This small individual was eight or ten inches long, 

 and was found in Saratoga Lake. The fishermen assured 

 me that it grew no larger; if this information is correct, it 

 is a distinct spv cies; but it may possibly prove to be the 

 young of leticulatus. Further observation, however, is 

 necessary to ascertain this point satib»factorily; mean time 

 I think it proper to apply to it the above specific desig- 

 nation, draw n from its vulgar name Black pike, 



A specimen of equal size with the above was brought 

 from East Florida by Messrs. Maclurc, Ord, Say, and 

 Peale, which exhibited no sensible difference. 



/Ir. Say communicated to me the foUow^ing notice of 

 a species which inhabits East Florida, and which it will 

 be proper to insert here, with the characters which he has 

 given to it. 



4. E. phaleratus (Say). Body dusky, with a verte- 

 bral fulvous vitta, and three or four fulvous fascia. 



Inhabits East Florida. 



This elegant species we discovered during a pedes- 

 trian excursion from Picolata to St. Augustine. The 

 country at that time was partially inundated, and this spe- 

 cimen occurred in the foot way. But having been un- 

 successful in our attempts to catch it, and not having no- 

 ted the circumstance at the time, the above description is 

 made entirely from memory, and therefore cannot be re- 

 lied upon as exact with resj^ect to the ground colour, or 

 to the number of bands; there may possibly be also a 

 lateral vitta beside the dorsal one. These bands and lines 



