82 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



SCORP^NID^. The Rock-Fishes. 



140. Helicolenus dactylopterus (De la Roche) . 



Geog. DiST.: Narragansett and Chesapeake Bays, in deep water. Common 



in the Mediterranean. 

 Season in R. I.: First discovered in America in 1880 off Narragansett Bay, 



by the Fish Hawk. (Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 1896, 249.) 



COTTID^. TheSculpins. 



141. Myoxocephalus seneus (Mitchill). Little Sculpin; Grubby. 

 Geog. Dist. : Coast of southern New England and New York. 

 Season in R. I. : Common throughout the year. 



Reproduction: Spawns in March; the eggs at that time may be seen sticking 



to nets and seaweed. 

 Food: Bottom invertebrates; annelids, copepods, shrimp, young flounders. 

 Size: Maximum, 6 to 8 inches. Specimen 3 inches long taken in seine at 



Willow Beach near Wickford, July 17, 1905. 



142. Myoxocephalus groenlandicus (Cuvier & Valenciennes) . Daddy Scul- 



pin; Sculpin. 

 Geog. Dist.: New York to Greenland. 

 Season in R. I. : Common in October and November. 

 Reproduction: Spawns in November and December. 

 Food: Fishes, crustacea, worms. 

 Size : Maximum, 25 inches. 



143. Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus (Mitchill). Eighteen-spined Scul- 



pin; Sculpin. 

 Geog. Dist. : Labrador to Virginia, common about Cape Cod. 

 Season in R. I.: Common in October and November. Specimen taken 



May 29, 1905, off Brenton's Reef, Newport. 

 Reproduction: Spawns in November and December. 

 Size: About a foot long. 



144. Hemltripterus americanus (Gmelin). Sea-raven; Red Sculpin. 

 Geog. Dist. : Atlantic coast, New York to Labrador. 



