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This is an excellent food fish, but not common enough to have 

 much commercial importance. As a game fish it has few 

 superiors. The spoon bait is very effective in the capture of 

 mascalonge, and live fishes are extensively used. A corres- 

 pondent of Land and Water describes a singular and successful 

 lure made from a young brown calf's tail, through the center of 

 which the shank of the hook was passed and fastened to a swivel. 



152 Lucius masquinongy immaculatus (Garrard) 

 Unspotted Mascalonge; Barred Mascalonge 



Esox immaculatus Garrard MS; noticed in several fishing journals, Eagle 

 Lake, Northern Wisconsin, fide Jordan & Evermann. 



Esox masquinongy immaculatus Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 5, 89, 1888. 



Lucius masquinongy immaculatus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 6S0, 1896. 



Lucius lucius immaculatus Bean, by error, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 

 353, 1897. 



Body moderately stoiut and elongate, its greatest depth one 

 ^ixth of the total length without caudal; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle contained two and two sevenths times in greatest depth 

 of body, and nearly four times in length of head; head long, its 

 length nearly three and three fourths times in total without 

 caudal; the maxilla extending to below the front edge of the 

 pupil, its length about one third of length of head; snout about 

 two fifths as long as the head; eye about one eleventh as long as 

 the head; the gill rakers mere clumps of spiny tubercles. The 

 dorsal fin is distant from tip of snout a space equal to two and 

 three fourths times length of head; the longest dorsal ray is three 

 sevenths as long as the head, and only a little longer than the 

 -dorsal base. The ventral is nearly as long as the snout. The 

 anal base is one third as long as the head; the longest anal ray 

 is as long as the snout, and equal to the pectoral. B. 18-19; D. 

 16-18 (developed rays); A. 15-16 (developed rays). Scales about 

 153 ; gill rakers 13+28. Color olive green with golden tints ; about 

 20 entire, blotchlike, irregular dark cross bands and several 

 parts of bands and blotches intervening; lower third of pectoral 

 pink; dorsal, caudal and anal with dark blotches forming pseudo- 

 bands; iris lemon yellow on a silvery white ground; no black 

 spots. 



