560 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
•3. FOMOXIS ANNULARIS. 
(Crappie; Sac-a-Lai ; Bachelor; New Light. Plate lxviii, fig. 3.) 
Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque, Amor. Mont. Mag., 41, 1818 (Falls of Ohio River). 
Pomoxys annularis Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. 1, 231, 1876. 
Cichla storeria Kirtland, Rep. Zool. Ohio, 191, 1838. 
Pomoxys storerius Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1865, 64. 
Pomoxis nitidus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1857 (Houston River, Ky.). 
Centrarchus nitidus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 257, 1859. 
Pomoxys hrevicauda Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 64 (North Grand River, 
Mo.). 
Pomoxys intermedius Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 64. 
Pomoxys protacanthus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 64 (Tarboro, N. C.). 
Habitat: Eastern United States south of the Great Lake region, east 
of the Alleghanies north to the Great Lakes, west to Kansas and Texas 
(in lowland streams). 
Etymology: Latin, ringed. 
III. ARCHOPLITES. 
1861. Archoplites Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 165 {interruptus). 
Type: Centrarchus interruptus Girard. 
Etymology: 'Ap%/jg, anus; 6nMzr)<;, armed. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES OF ARCHOPLITES. 
a. Body oblong ovate, compressed, profile augulated ; head large ; snout scarcely 
longer than eye ; mouth large ; maxillary reaching posterior border of eye ; eye 
moderate, 4 £ to 5 in head ; scales moderate, smaller on breast and back, 8 to 9 rows 
on cheeks; dorsal spines rather high, longest reaching posterior border of pupil; 
pectorals and ventrals not re aching anal. Blackish above, sides silvery, with 
about 7 dark interrupted bars ; a black opercular spot; fins nearly plain ; head, 
2f to 2f ; depth, 2£ to 2£; D. xii-xiii, 10 ; A. vi-vii, 10; lat. l.,40 to 51 ; L.,12 
inches — ...» Interruptus, 4. 
4. ARCHOPLITES INTERRUPTUS. 
(Sacramento Perch. Plate lxix, fig. 1.) 
Centrarchus interruptus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854. 129 (San Joaquin 
and Sacramento Rivers). 
Amhloplites interruptus Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., 10, 1859. 
Archoplites interruptus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 165. 
Centrarchus maculosus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1854, 8. 
Habitat : Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, California. 
Etymology : Latin, interrupted. 
This species is common in the larger streams of California and is the 
only Percoid west of the Rocky Mountains, 
