86 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



331. Boleichthys fusiformis Girard. 

 Fusiform Darter. 



"Lowland streams and ponds." 



Massachusetts westward to Minnesota, and southward to the Rio Grande: probably occurs 

 in Canadian waters. 



332. Boleichthys exilis Girard. 

 Fluviatile. 



Known from Red River and upper Missouri River basin.* 



333. Microperca punctulata Putnam. 

 Least Darter. 



"Clear, cold, weedy streams, and ponds." 



Ranges from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, southward to Arkansas: perhaps occurs 

 in Canadian waters. 



334. Roccus chrysopst Rafinesque. 

 White Bass. 



Lacustrine and fluviatile. 



St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes region, westward to Manitoba and Mississippi valley, 

 and southward to Arkansas: recorded from Lake Oromocto, one of the head waters 

 of the Magaguadavic River, New BrunswickJ (Cox, 1895, after Adams). 



335. Roccus lineatus Bloch. (Plate X, figures 118 and 119). 

 Striped Bass. 



Anadromous: essentially a brackish water species. 



Atlantic coast of North America, from the Maritime Provinces to the Gulf of Mexico: as- 

 cends the Miramichi and St. Lawrence Rivers and tributaries; as well as "the Potomac 

 to the Great Falls, and the other rivers of the Middle States, until it meets obstruc- 

 tions" (Jordan and Evermann): said to occur occasionally in Lake Ontario, and "has 

 been taken at the mouth of the Niagara River "§ (Ramsay Wright): introduced into 

 waters of the Pacific coast by the United States Fish Commission. 



♦"Specimens of a small darter obtained by Mr. Charles H. Bollman in Clam Lake, Michigan, may belong to 

 this species." Jordan and Evermann. 



f'This is doubtless the Silver Bass of Canada, the details of whose introduction into France, and successful 

 propagation by M. Carbonnier, from 1877 to 1879, are recorded by that experimenter in the Bulletin of the Society 

 of Acclimation for 1881." Goode. 



jDr. Cox considers that the present occurrence of this species in Lake Oromocto is doubtful, and not only so, 

 but that the record of Dr. Adams is open to question. 



§"There is a record of an example taken in the Niagara River at Lewiston, but this may have been a mis- 

 identification of the white bass." Jordan and Evermann. "The White Bass or Striped Lake Bass, Roccus chrysops 

 is often confounded with the Striped Bass which it closely resembles." Goode. 



