ART. XVII.-NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM THE 

 RIO GRANDE, AT BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. 



By David S. Jordan, M. D. 



A small jar of fishes collected at Brownsville, Texas, has been lately- 

 discovered in overhauling the collections of the United States National 

 Museum. The name of the collector and the date of the collection are 

 lost, and most of the specimens are in poor condition from long neglect j 

 still a study of them has added something to our meagre knowledge of 

 the fish-fauna of the Eio Grande. With one or two exceptions, the spe- 

 cies have all been described by Girard, often under several different 

 names, in the Ichthyology of the United States and Mexican Boundary. 



Family CENTRAECHID^. 



Genus LEPIOPOMUS Eafinesque. 



1. — LEPIOPOMUS PALLIDUS (Mitchill) Gill & Jordan. 



181i~Lalrus pallidus MiTcnuA., Traus. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. 407. 



Lepomis jpalUdus Gill & Jordan (1877), Field and Forest, p. — . 



Lepiopomus pallidus Jordan (1877), Ann. Nc Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 316. 



Helioperca pallida Jordan (1877), Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. 355. 



Lepiopomus pallidm Jordan (1877), Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. x, 43. 



iepioj;o»iMS2?aZH(?i<s Jordan (1878), Man. Vert. ed. 2d, 241. 

 1818— Xo6rMs appendix Mitchill, Am. Monthly Mag. v. 2, 247. (Not Pomoiis appendix 



DeKay et auct, =:L. auritus (L.) Raf.) 

 1831 — Pomotis incisor Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vii, 466. 



Pomotis incisor DeKay (1842), N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 33. 



Pomotis incisor Storer (1846), Synoi^sis, 293. 



Pomotis incisor Agassiz (1854), Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 302. 



Pomotis incisor Girard (1858), Pac. E. E. Survey, 24. 



Pomotis incisor GtJNXHER (1859), Cat. Fishes, i, 2139. 



Ichthelis incisor Holbrook (1860), leh. S. Car. 12. 



IcMhelis incisor Putnam (1863), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. i, 6. 



Lepomis incisor Gill (1864), Am. Journ. Sc. Arts, 93. 



Lepomis incisor Cope (1865), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 83. 



IcMhelis incisor Jordan (1876), Man. Vert. 235, 317, 



IcMhelis incisor Nelson (1876), Bull. Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37. 



IcMhelis incisor Jordan & Copeland (1876), Check List, 138, 

 18dl— Pomotis gibbosus Cuvier & Valenciennes (1831), Hist. Nat. des Poissons, vii, 467, 



Pomotis gibbosus Storer (1846), Synopsis Fishes N. A. 293. 

 1854— Pomotis speeiosus Baird & Girard (1854), Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 24. 



Pomotis speciostis Girard (1858), Pac. R. R. Surv. 23. 



Pomotis speeiosus Guntiier (1859), Cat. Fishes Brit. Mas. i , 263, 



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