REVIEW OF THE SEREANIDiE. 
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Lahrax notatus (Hamilton Smith) Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, III, 8, 1836; Storer, Syn. Fishes 
N. Am., 22, 1846 ; Giiuther, I, 67, 1859. 
Lahrax alhidus De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Fishes, 13, pi. 51, f. 165, 1842 (Buffalo); Storer, Syn. Fishes 
N. Am., 23, 1846. 
Lahrax osculatii Filippi, Rev. et Mag. de Zoologie, 2d series, V. 164, 1853; Gunther, I, 65, 1859. 
Habitat. — Great Lake regiou, Upper Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, and north- 
ward. 
Etymology. — Xpo(j6<;, gold ; eye. 
The White Bass is generally abundant in the Great Lakes, where it reaches a length 
of from 10 to 15 inches. In the Ohio and Mississippi Bivers it is less common, although 
it is frequently taken. It is more abundant northward, its southernmost limit being, 
so far as our collections show, the Washita River, in Arkansas. It frequents deep or 
still waters, seldom ascending small streams. 
117 ROCCUS LINEATUS. 
(Striped Bass; Rock-fish; Rock.) 
Sciama lineata Bloch, Ichthyologia, IX, 53, pi. 305, 1792. 
Lahrax lineatus Cuv. & Val , Hist. Nat. des Poissons, II, 79, 1828 (New York) ; Richardson, Fauna Boreali- 
Americana, III, 10, 1836; Storer, Report Fishes of Mass., 7, 1839 (Boston and vicinity); Ayres, 
Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., IV, 707, 1842 (Long Island) ; De Kay, Zool. of N. Y., Fishes, 7, pi. 1, f. 
3, 1842 (Long Island) ; Liusley, Cat. Fishes Conn.; Storer, Syn. Fishes N. Am., 21, 1846; Baird, 
Rep. on Fishes ofN. J. Coast, 7, 1854 (Chesapeake Bay, Potomac, and Susquehanna Rivers) ; 
Holbrook, Ichth. S. C., 17, pi. 4, f. 2, 1855 ; Gunther, I, 64, 1359. 
Bocciis lineatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 112, 1860; Gill, Ichth. Rep. Capt. Simpson’s Sur. Great 
Basiu Utah, 391, 1876; Jordan, Annals N. Y. Ac. Sci., iv, No. 4, 97, 1876 (Delaware and Potomac 
Rivers); Jordan &. Gilbert, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 380 (Beaufort, N. C., and vicinity) ; 
Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 145 (Pensacola aud vicinity) ; Goode, op. cit., 115 
(St. John’s River, Fla.); Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Ans., 425, 1884; Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., 1886, 465 (Escambia River). 
Perea Rock-fish vel Stricked Bass Scbcepf, Schrift. der Gesells. nat. Freunde, VIII, 160, 1783 (New York). 
Perea saxatilis Walbaum, Artedi, Genera Piscium, 3.30, 1788 (after Scbcepf). 
Rocous saxatilis Jordan &. Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 599; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 365. 
Perea septentrionalis Bloch & Schueider, Systema Ichthyol., 90, pi. 70, 1801 (New York) ; Jordan, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 72. 
Roceus atriatus Mitchill, Rep. Pishes N. Y.,25, 1815 (New York); Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 243 
(Montgomery, Ala.). 
Perea mitchilli Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., N. Y., I, 413, pi. 3, f. 4, 1814 (New York). 
Lepihema mitehilli Eafinesque, Ichthyologia Ohiensis, 23, 1820. 
Perea mitehilli interrupta Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., 415, 1815 (New York). 
Perea mitehilli alternata MitchWl. 1. e., 415, 1815 (New York). 
Lahrax sehmnleini Peters, Berliner Mouatsberichte, I8i)5, 95 (Celebes). (This is later stated by Peters 
■ to be probably identical with Lahrax lineatus. If so, it certainly did not come from Celebes.) 
Habitat. — Atlantic coasts of the United States, from New Brunswick to Pensa- 
cola, Florida, ascending all rivers in spring for the purpose of spawning. Occasional 
in Lake Ontario (Lewiston, Roosevelt). Introduced into California by the U. S Fish 
Commission. 
Etymology. — Lineatus., striped. 
This species is one of the most important of the food-fishes of America. It is very 
abundant. It reaches a large size. Its flesh is excellent, and firm enough to bear 
