1886.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 243 



East Coast N. A., 39, 1861 (Name only); Sauvage, Revision des 



' Epinoches, 13, 1874 (Newfoundland); Jordan, Cat. Fresh "Water 

 Fish. N. A., 442, 1878 (Name only). 



Oasterosteus irachurus Cuvier, RCgne Animal, 76, 1829 (Based in part 

 on Bloch); Storer, Syn. Fish. N. A., 62, 1846. 



Oasterosteus loricatus Reinhardt, Green, Fauna, 37, 1837 (Greenland); 

 Reinhardt, "Kong. Danske. Vidensk. Selsk. Nat. Math. Afh., vii, 

 114," 1838 ; Sauvage, Revision des Epinoches, 12, 1874 (Newfound- 

 land). 



Oasterosteus neoboracensis Dekay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 66, plate vi, fig. 

 17, 1842 (New York). 



Oasterosteus dekayi Ayres, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Cal. (based on biacule- 

 atus of Dekay). 



Oasterosteus suppositus Sauvage, Revision des Epinoches, 11, 1884 

 (after Dekay). 



3. G. aculeatus cataphractus. 



aster acanthus catapJiracius 'Psdla.s, ''Mem. Acad. Petersb., iii, 825," 

 1811. 



Oasterosteus cataphractus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 239 

 (Kodiak, Cook's Inlet, Sitka, Port Mulgrave, Shumagins, Unalaska, 

 Amchitka, Kyska Harbor, St. Paul, Bering Sea near Bering Isl.); 

 Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 270 (Pacific South of Bering 

 Strait, Puget Sound, San Francisco); Stejneger, Proc. U. 8. Nat. 

 Mus., 1883, 65 (Commander Island); Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1888, 353 (Duncan's Bay, Brit. Col.); Bean, Cat. Fish, in Internat. 

 Fish. Exhib. London, 19, 1883 (St. Paul Isl.). 



Oasterosteus aculeatus var. cataphractus Jordan & Jouy, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1881, 1 (Puget Sound); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1881, 69 (San Francisco to Alaska). 



Oasterosteus aculeatus subsp. cataphractus Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. 

 N. A., 396, 1883 (West Coast). 



Oasterosteus obolarius Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, iv, 

 500, 1829 (Kamtschatka) ; Sauvage, Revision des Epinoches, 12, 

 1874 (Name only). 



Oasterosteus inseulptus Richardson, Last Arctic Voy., 10, plate xxv, 

 fig. 1, 2, 3, 1854 (Northumberland and Puget Sound); Bean, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XV, 129, 1879 (Northumberland Sound). 



Oasterosteus serratus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1855, 47 (San 

 Francisco); Girard, Pacific R. R. Survey, 88, 1859 (Shoal Water 

 Bay: San Francisco); Sauvage, Revision des Epinoches, 13, 1874 

 (San Francisco Bay); Jordan, Cat. Fresh Water Fish. N. A., 442, 

 1878 (Name only); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 

 452 (Puget Sound, San Francisco) ; Jordan & Jouy, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1881, 1 (Foot note). 



