702 eoxTKir.rnoxs TO XOI.TII AMKKK-AX ICHTHYOLOGY iv. 



anal; ventrals not to vent; n<> trace of slit behind last gill. Head 

 I'. 1 ,; depth .">.',. 1). IX-1.">; A. 1-1; V. I, 3. Atlantic coast; rather com- 



mon northward. 



(Mifdi. Trans. Lit. ami Phil. *<><. X. Y. i. >0. 1-15; Giiuthcr, ii, 163: Jcanthocottit* 

 Store]-, Hist. Fish. Mass. *Jd.) 



1O73. \ aesiciis Mitrhill. f 



Grayish olive, much variegated with darker; no distinct paler spots; 

 bark and sides with broad, dark, irregular bars; all the Jins barred; 

 mandible mottled; belly pale. Head rather broad; maxillary L' : \ in 

 head, reaching; to just beyond pupil; snpraocular and occipital ridges 

 prominent, each with a low, bluntish spine; nasal spines moderate; 

 upper preopeivular spine, shorter thati eye, nearly twice length of the 

 next spine, about reaching' middle of opercle. Lateral line complete: 

 sides with scattered concealed plates. Dorsal spines rather low, higher 

 than the soft rays; pectorals reaching- anal; no trace of slit behind last 

 gill. Head l! '<; depth 4. D. IX-13; A. 10; V. I, 3. L. G inches. Coast 

 of Southern Xew Hug-land and New York; our smallest species; com- 

 mon in seaweeds near shore. , 



(Mit.-liill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. i, l*i:>, 380; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex 

 lust. 1*71). 1:5: Cuttitx milchilli (Jmither, ii, 1G4.) 



1O71. . scorpioades Fabricins. 



V<-i-y dark, finely mottled with paler; fins dusky, with paler spots; 

 anal and ventral lins with the pale spots largvr. Body stoutish, tail 

 slender. Head very short; jaws short, the maxillary reaching the 

 middle of the large eye; top of head concave between the two occipital 

 ridg-es; preopercular spines quite short; opercular spine almost obsolete. 

 Skin nearly smooth. Isthmus narrow, the fold across it very narrow; 

 no trace of slit or pore behind the last gill. Dorsal lins slightly joined, 

 the spines slender; pectorals reaching vent. Head .".; depth 1H. D. 

 X-17; A. 1L'; V. I,.".. Arctic regions o!' America : Greenland to Siberia. 



iFal.r. fannaGroenl. ir.7. I780j Hran, Bull. r. S. Xat. Mus. xv, 1-J-J: LiiiU.-n An. 

 A"idc'ii>!<. M'i!(icis. Kji'iiii-iili. l.-'?ii. I'J : Cottiu pochypus GftnOivr, ii. li'l.) 



1O75. <". sa-orpiios L. 



Dark olivaceous, mottled with paler: fins dusky, with paler spots. 

 (Imeral characters of the subspecies (/fd'uhnntiaix, from which it differs 

 chiefly in the smaller si/.e, the narrower inlerorbital space, which i> 

 diameter of eye. and in the 1;>\\ cr spinons dorsal, (lie highest spines be- 

 ing a l)ou I one ei- htli the leiiglli to base of caudal; pore behind last gill 

 usually ver\ small, but evident. Head I'.!; depth -I 1 ,. D. X-1U; A. 14. 

 Noi-lhern lOnrope and Arctic re-ions of Amei ica, south to Kastport, J\Je. 



(L. Sy.t. Xat.; (Jiinlhor, ii, 1 ."'.': Unui, Hull. t'. S. Xat. Mus. xv, 116.) 



