142 " ^^K"-.^ The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



17. FaNDULUS DIAPHA.NUS, (Les.) A^assiz. spring Minnoiv. 

 Bonaventure and Grand Pabos. Rustico and HillsbDro 

 River, P. E. I.; St. John River, and Mir, N. B. 



19. GasterosteuS PUNGITIUS, L. Nine-ipined St:ck'ehack. 



Cascapedia. New Brunswick and P. E. I. 



20. GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS, L. Stickkbac'i. 

 Connmon on the Gaspe coast and lower courses of rivers. 



Like many others of our smaller species, it shows a departure 

 from the ordinary type, for its fin formula is D. II-I, 1 1 ; A. I. 8; 

 \v\\^x&-dA aculeatus has D. If-I. 13; A. I. 9. Hence ours ap- J 



preaches in this respect y:/. ////rr^r^//^^?//^', but in all other features " 



is A.aculeatus. The typical form, however, occurs generally in 

 N. B. Common in N. S., (J. M. Jones.)* 



21. NOTEMlGONUSCHRYSOLEUCUS(Mitch.)Jordon.G'(;M7/^7//;/r/-. 



Lac a Canard and Murphy's Lake, Grand Pabos. Also 

 occurs in Metapedia River and Lake. Alton Lake, P. E. I., the 

 only fresh water fish Roy Vanwart found on that island. 



22. SEMOTILUS ATROMACULATUS, Mitch. Honicd Dcice. 



Cascapedia and other streams. Slightly aberrant. D. 

 generally 8 rays instead of 7, as is the rule in N. B. Snout 

 more pointed. Size, small. Generally distributed in N . B., 

 Lake Metapedia fish are closer to N. B. type. 



Catostomus COMMERSONII (Lac.^ J^^rdan. Common Sucker. 



Cascapedia and Bonaventure rivers. Metapedia. Scale 

 formula 9-60-7 instead of 10-64-9 said to be t)'pical of this form, 

 though N. B. fish always show a reduction. In all other 

 respects typical. Size large — 18 inches long, generall)' distri- 

 buted in N. B. Also in N. S., (J. M. Jones, N. S., In. of Nat., Sc. 

 Vol. V. pt. I, 1879.; 



COREGONUS LabradoricusRich? White-fish. 



One species occurs sparingly in the Grand Cascapedia, but 

 I heard of it nowhere else. Could not procure a specimen, but 

 from descriptions concluded it was this species. 



*The last two species not strictly fresh-water fishes. 



