A16 Storer on the 
At the base of the tail are three transverse bands 
of asimilar color. All the under portion of the body 
is of a. brilliant yellow. Snout elongated. Lower 
jaw straight. Length of the specimen 5 inches 5 
lines; thickness seven and a half lines; depth one 
inch and one and a half lines. 
e fin rays are: D. 14; P. 18; V. 6; A. 12; 
0.1 
E fish was taken with other species of this ge- 
nus in the marshes of this vicinity. 
'The specimen now before me varies in some slight 
particulars. Its length is four and a half inches. 
Quite a number of black spots upon the back. Two 
longitudinal bands on the sides; the upper, unbroken 
throughout its entire extent ; the inferior broken at 
the posterior half of the body ; the anterior being 
higher than the posterior portion of the band. 
transverse lines between the extremity of the longi- 
tudinal bands, and the caudal rays; that next to the 
tail, longer than either of the others. 
C. 20 
Family II. = 
ESOCES. gi 
Esox. Lin. 
Generic characters. Head depressed, large, ob- 
long, blunt ; jaws, palatine bones, and vomer, fur- 
nished with teeth of various sizes ; body el 
_ rounded on the back ; sides compressed, covered. with: 
The fin rays are: D. 15; P. 17; V. 6; An PM 
