Io2 THE FISHHS OF OHIO. 



Vermillion river," MeCormick, 1892; Maumee river system, 

 St. Joseph river at Edgerton, Tiffin river at Brunersburg, 

 Sugar creek at Lima, Beaver creek at Grand Rapids, Kirsch, 

 1893 ! Franklin County, nearly every stream, abundant, Wil- 

 liamson and Osburn, 1897 '> Big Jelloway creek, Knox County, 

 " a very common species," Parker, Williamson and Osburn, 1898; 

 John's creek at Waterloo, Huron river at Milan, Ashtabula creek, 

 Wabash river at Celina, Stillwater and Wolf creeks near Dayton, 

 North Fork of Licking river at Newark, R. C. Osburn, 1899 ; 

 Niggermill Run at Salem, E. B. Williamson, 1900 ; Lake Pippin, 

 Cuyahoga river at Kent, Wheeling creek at Bridgeport, Ohio 

 river and McMahon creek at Bellaire, R. C. Osburn, 1900. 



Genus: BolEichthys. 

 Boleichthys fusiformis (Girard). 

 Head y/ 2 to 4; depth 3^ to 6; eye 3 to 4. D. VIII to X-9 to 12; A. II, 

 6 to 8; scales 3-43 to 60-12. Body usually elongate, compressed. Head 

 rather long and narrow; snout short, decurved; mouth terminal, lower jaw 

 slightly included; premaxillaries not protractile; gill membranes connected. 

 Cheeks, opercles, nape and breast usually scaled. Lateral line incomplete, 

 high up, often interrupted. Color, olivaceous, the sides and back blotched 

 with darker, pale below; in adult males the sides are usually necked with 

 crimson; base of caudal with 4 dark spots in a vertical row; spinous dorsal 

 usually blue, with a median crimson band. An extremely variable species. 



Jordan records the species for the state as " noticed only in 

 tributaries of the Maumee, in Ohio." No other collector men- 

 tions it. However, it seems to be distributed over northern and 

 central Ohio, in suitable localities. The writer has found it to be 

 rather common in shallow water in Sandusky Bay, and has taken 

 it also in 'the Huron river at Milan, 1899, and in Pippin and 

 Summit lakes and in Licking reservoir, 1900. 



Family: Serranid^. 

 Gemis: Roccus. 



Roccus chrysops (Rafinesque). WhiTK Bass. 

 Head 2>%; depth 2^; eye 5. D. IX-I, 14; A. Ill, 11 or 12; scales 16-55 

 to 65-15. Body rather deep and compressed; back considerably arched. 

 Head subconical; mouth moderate, nearly horizontal, lower jaw slightly 

 projecting. Head scaled to between nostrils. Color, silvery, tinged with 

 golden below; sides with narrow, dusky lines. Length 15 inches. 



