338 Fishes of the Ohio 
Plate XXVII. Fig. 2. 
Vide Storer's Report on the Fishes of Massachusetts, p. 5. 
Our specimen agrees, in every particular, with his description, 
except in the relative size of the two dorsal fins, which are 
correctly represented in the figure. The transverse bands 
were eight. 
It is common in the waters of Lake Erie and its tributaries, 
but did not originally inhabit those of the Ohio. Since the 
constructing of our public works, it has found its way into the 
tributaries of that river. 
Hyopon. . Lesueur. 
H. tergissus. Lesueur. Toothed Herring. 
Hyodon tergissus. Lesueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Se. i. p. 366. 
« * — ANotched.fin Hyodon. “Rich. Faun. Boreal. Amer. 
: iii. p. 235. ; 
"i o Moon-eyed Herring. Kirtland’s Rep. p. 170. 
s - River Moon-eye. Dekay's Rep. p. 265, pl. XLI. fig. 130. 
Hyodon clodalus. "^ "Lesueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Se. i. p. 367, 
| l. XIV. 
« « Larger Herring. Kirtland's Rep. pp. 170, 195. 
[7 T Lake Moon -eye. Dekay's Rep. p. 266, pl. LI. fig. 164. 
Plate XXVIII. Fig. 1, 9. - 
a. male, b. female. 
Head short, compressed laterally, one fifth of the tota! 
length. Nose short and rounded. Eyes large and c peri 
iris gilt. The jaws and palate furnished with numerous teeth; 
lower jaw shorter than the upper. 
Body flat; the back nearly straight before the dorsal fim 
from thence abruptly sloping to the base of the tail ; abdomen 
of the male, straight or slightly incurved, of the female, 
rounded and more convex. 
