492 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [106J 



ANGUILLIME. 

 Genus ANGUILLA Thunberg. 



163. Angiiilla rostrata (Le Sueur) De Kay. Common Bel. 



Atlantic coast of the United States from Maine to 

 Florida, ascending streams; Gulf of Mexico and 

 Mississippi Valley ; southward to Mexico; introduced 

 into the Great Lakes and into California. 



This is an exceedingly abundant and rather valuable 

 food-fish; it is, however, very destructive to the 

 spawn of shad and other important species, often 

 completely disemboweling fishes caught in gill-nets 

 before they can be taken from the water. 



10415. Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. Prof. S. F. Baird. 



AMIID^. 

 Genus AMIA Linne. 



164. Amia calva Linne. Mud-fish ; Dog-fish ; Bow-fin 



Grindle; " John A. Grindle ; " Lawyer. 



Great Lakes; Ohio and Mississippi valleys, southward 

 to Texas; Eastern United States from New York to 

 North Carolina; once taken in the Susquehanna; not 

 known from the Delaware nor any other Atlantic 

 stream north of the Roanoke (Cope). 



The male readies 18 inches in length and has a black 

 spot surrounded by a yellow or orange ring; the 

 female reaches 2 feet or more and is without the 

 caudal spot. The fish is of no value as food. 



29817. Tributary of Cayuga Lake, New York, December 16, 1881. L. 

 M. Miller. 



LEPIDOSTEIDiE. 



Genus LEPIDOSTEUS Lacepede. 

 Subgenus Cylindrosteus Rafinesque. 



165. IiCpidostews platystomus Rafinesque. Short-nosed 



Gar. 



Great lakes; rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, 

 southward to the Rio Grande ; Florida. 

 17799. Round Lake, near Montgomery, Alabama, July 14, 1876. Kum- 

 lien *& Bean, 



