242 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1886. 



aaa. Sides entirely naked ; no bony dermal plates ; caudal pe- 

 duncle not keeled. Tip of first dorsal spine not reach- 

 ing second. Head 3 in length to base of caudal. Depth 

 5 in total length. D. I-I-I-l, 10; A. 1, 7. Olivaceous 

 brown, darker above ; sides spotted with black ; belly 

 yellowish. Williamsoxi. 8. 



3. GASTEROSTEUS. 

 3. G. aculeatus. 



Oastcrosteus in dorso tribus. Artedi, Gen. Pise, 52, 1738 (Europe); 

 Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 385, 1793 (No description). 



Oastei'osteus aculeatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. X, i, 295, 1758 (after 

 Arttdi); Fabricius, "Fauna Grcenlandica," 169, 1780 (Greenland); 

 Bloch, Syst. Nat., plate 53, fig. 3 ; Richardson, Fauna Bor. America, 

 55, 1836; Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A., 39, 1861 (Name only;; 

 Gill, Cat, Fish. East Coast N. A., 16, 1873 (Name only); Sauvage, 

 Revision des Epinoches, 9, 1874 (Bonneville, near Caen) ; Jordan, Cat. 

 Freshwater Fish. N, A., 443, 1878 (Name only); Goode & Bean, 

 Fish. Essex Co. Mass. Bay, 5, 1879 (Essex Co.); Bean, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1880, 77 (Woods Holl, Wilmington, Del. ); Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 395, 1883 (East Coast); Stearns, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1883, 123 (Labrador). 



Oasterosteus bispinosus Walbaum, Artedi Ichth., 450, 1793 (after Pen- 

 nant). 



Oasterosteus biaculeatus Shaw, Zool., iv, 608, 1839 (after Pennant); 

 Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc, 430, 1814 (Salt Water at New 

 York); Dekay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 65, plate iii, fig. 8, 1842 (New 

 York); Storer, Syn. Fish. N. A., 63, 1846; H. R. Storer, Fish. 

 Labrador, 260, 1849 (Brooks emptying into Gut of Canso); Gill, Cat. 

 Fish. East Coast N. A., 39, 1861 (Name only); Putnam, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., 11, 1863 ; Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 87, plate viii, fig. 

 213, 1867. 



Oasterosteus noveboraeensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pois- 

 sons, iv, 502, 1829 (New York); Storer, Rept. Fish. Mass., 30, 1839 

 (Massachusetts); Ayres, Fish. Brookhaven, Long Island, 259, 1842 

 (Old Man's Harbor, Storer, Syn. Fish. N. A., 63, 1846 ; Gill, Cat. 

 Fish. East Coast N. A., 16, 1873 (Name only); Sauvage, Revision 

 des Epinoches, 11, 1874 (New York, Newfoundland, Boston); Jor- 

 dan, Man. Vert., Ed. i, 250, 1876 (Name only); Goode, Bull, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xiv, 53, 1879 (Name only). 



Oasterosteus aculeatus var. noveboraeensis Giinther, Cat, Fish, Brit. 

 Mus., i, 4, 1859 (Greenland). 



Oasterosteus w/g-e?* Cuvier, Rogue Animal, 76, 1829 (Based on 6iV/c?<Zea<'/s 

 of >Iitchill); Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, iv, 503, 

 1829 (Newfoundland); Dekay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 68, 1842 (New- 

 foundland); Storer, Syn, Fish, N. A., 63, 1846; Gill, Cat. Fish. 



