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black snake. It likes to go in the water. Dorsal scales carinated. Tail brown, 

 having at the end a short obtuse and compressed horn, as most of the snakes. 



32. Coluber tesselatus. Grey, checkered like a chess board with red spots, and 

 some black ones intermixed. — Length three feet. This beautiful snake was found 

 at Louisville in a hogshead of sugar imported from Louisiana. It is called calli- 

 coe snake in Louisiana. 



33. Coluber fulviventer. Entirely black s^bove, and brick-red beneath, throat 

 yellow ; dorsal scales carinated; about two hundred abdominal scales, and seven- 

 ty pairs of caudal ; tail one fifth of the total length. — Length nearly three feet ; it 

 has large teeth, but no fangs. Vulgar name chicken snake Found in Kentucky, 

 Ohio, Indiana, fl'c. 



34. Anguinus ( Anguis L.J fasciatus. Yellowish-white, with broad brown 

 rings, marginated of black on the back, and on the sides a row of small interme- 

 diary bands like spots; head mixed with brown. — Length one foot, cylindrical ; 

 scales smooth, hexagonal, head with large scales above and flattened. It lives 

 near Lake George and Lake Champlain: vulgar names, eel snake, ring snake, 

 worm snake. 



IV CLASS. ICHTHYOSIA.— THE FISHES. 



II. N. G. Hemiplus. Abdominal. Body oblong, one dorsal fin opposite to the 

 vent ; head small, mouth puckered, toothless, looking upwards, lower Kp longer ; 

 gill cover double ; abdominal fin with only five rays, and a scaly lateral appen- 

 dage at the base. — It belongs to the family Cyprinidia, it differs from Cyprinus by 

 the mouth and abdominal fins, which have appendages like the real G. Saltno, 

 Clupea, Sparus, &c. This striking character has been neglected by all the Ich- 

 thyologists ; I wish to draw their attention to it. The generic name means half- 

 double. 



35. Hemiplus lacustris. Silvery, with gilt shades, back and top of the head 

 brownish ; lateral line curved downwards, a second and upper one straight reach- 

 ing the dorsal fin only ; all the fins olivaceous tipped with brown : dorsal fin nine 

 rayed, anal falcate fourteen rayed, tail forked. — I have already mentioned this 

 small fish in the Amer. M. Mag. 1st Dec. of new species, sp. 7, vol. 2. p. 121, un- 

 der the name of Cyprinus hemiplus. It is found in Lake George, Lake Saratoga, 

 and Lake Champlain. Length three to six inches. Pect. t4. C. 24. Vulgar 

 names Shiner or Minny. 



36. Cyprinus hcBmatopterus . Back olivaceous brown, sides coppered, pale be- 

 neath ; head black, tuberculated above and on the lower lip, gill cover reddish 

 with a black spot : lateral line curved downwards at the base ; tail forked, lower 

 fins bloody red, anal and dorsal nine rayed, this last in the middle of the back. — 

 A pretty fish called red-fin chub, not uncommon in the streams falling into the 

 Hudson. Length five or six inches ; iris gilt, mouth large terminal toothless , 

 jaws equal ; allthefinsolivaceous.marginatedortipped with bloody red, the pec- 

 toral and abdominals are entirely red, the first ray of the pectoral is bluish. P. 

 IS. abd. 9. C. 20. Eyes black. 



37. Cyprinus trivittatus . Back and fins olivaceous, a brown longitudinal band 

 on the back, a broad bluish band on each side above the lateral line, which is 

 nearly straight ; belly white with gilt shades, head brown, rather rough above, 

 gill cover gilt : tail forked, anal and dorsal fins with nine rays, this last in the mid- 

 dle of the back. — Similar to the foregoing and to my C. vittatus in many points. 

 Iris gilt brown. Found in the Fishkill and Wallkill creeks, state of New- York. 



38. Salmo pallidus. Lower jaw much longer, body cylindrical; grey crowded 

 with irregular rounded pale yellowish spots, gills silvery, lateral line ascending at 

 the base, tail forked brownish, dorsal fin brown with twelve rays, adipose fin 

 olivaceous, lower fins white, the anal with twelve rays. — Common in Lake Cham- 

 plain, Lake George, Lake Seneca, &c : vulgar names salmon trout, white trout, 

 or lake trout, &c ; length two to four feet. Very good food, flesh reddish. 



V CLASS. PLAXOMIA.— THE CRUSTACEA. 



III. N. G. Sperchius. Antenna double than the head, four nearly equal, with 

 two long truncate articles, the upper pair rather broader and longer. Body com- 

 pressed, with seven segments, each with a large lateral appendage or scale ; the 

 fourth larger and with an additional posterior appendage, the corresponding feet 



