]38 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARCTIC AMERICA. 



Family, SACCOPHARYNGID^. 



37. Saccopharynx flagellum Mitch. 



Ophiognathus ampiillaceus Harwood, Phil. Traus., 1827, p. 49, pi. 7 (Me Rich.;. 

 Saccophari/nx ampullaceua Rich., F. B. A., iii, 1836, p. 271. 

 " The individual described by Dr. Harwood, measuring four feet and 

 a half in length, was captured in the entrance of Davis Strait, by Cap- 

 tain Sawyer, of the ship Harmony." — EiCH., I. c. 

 U. S. National Museum, April 3, 1879. 



Supplementary Note. — The description of a species of Cotttis from 

 the United States by Sauvage* has just come to my notice. The sub- 

 ject of the description and figure is undoubtedly the Cottus ceneus of 

 MitchiU. 



May 23, 1879. 



* Cottus (Acanthocottua) anceps Sauvage, Nouv. Archiv. du Museum d'Histoire Natu- 

 veUe, Paris, Deuxifeme S^rie, Tome Premier, 1878, p. 145, pi. i, fig. xiii. 



