578 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
27. MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES. 
(Large-mouthed Black Bass. Plate lxxii, Jig. 3.) 
Labrus salmoides Lacep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 716, 1802. 
Grystes salmoides Agassiz, Lake Superior, 295, 1850. 
Dioplites salmoides Vail. & Boo., ms. Miss. Sci. Mex., 1874. 
Micropterus salmoides Vail. & Boc., Miss. Sci. Mex. (inod.), 1874. 
Lepomis pallida Rafinesque, Ich. Oh., 30, 1820 (Ohio, Miami, Hockhocking Rivers). 
Micropterus pallidas Jordan, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 314, 1877. 
Cichla floridana Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1822, 219 (E. Florida). 
Micropterus floridanus Goode, Bull, vi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 63, 1876. 
Huro nigricans Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 124, 1828 (Lake Huron). 
Grystes nigricans Agassiz, Lake Superior, 297, 1850 (Great Lakes). 
Micropterus nigricans Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 1865, 83. 
Grystes nobilis Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1854, 298 ( Huntsville, Ala.). 
Grystes nuecensis Baird & Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 25 (Rio Frio and 
Rio Nueces, Texas). 
Dioplites nuecensis Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. 4, 1859 (Rio Cibolo, Rio Blanco). 
Micropterus nuecensis Vail. & Boc., ms. Miss. Sci. Mex., 1874. 
Grystes megastoma Garlick, Treat. Art. Prop. Fish, 108, 1857. 
Dioplites treculii Vail. & Boc., ms. Miss. Sci. Mex., 1874. 
Habitat: Lake Champlain to Manitoba, and southward to Virginia, 
Florida, and Mexico; chiefly in lakes and lowland streams. 
Etymology : Salmo , salmon ; eUog, like. 
