](i4 TRIGLID.i:. 



the length of the maxillary bone. Skin smooth ; along the lateral 

 line narrow bony plates. Body marbled with brown ; the first 

 dorsal blackish, with whitish spots ; the other fins with brownish 

 spots, more or less confluent into bands. 



Atlantic coasts of the northern parts of North America. 



a. Adult : stuffed. N. America. Presented by E. Donbleday, Esq. 



b. Adult : skin. New York. From Dr. Parnell's Collection. 



14. Cottus mitchilli. 



Cottus Scorpio ?, Mitch. Trans. Lit. 8r Phil. Soc. New Yot-k, i. p. 381. 



mitchilli, Cuv. <^ Val. iv. p. 188 ; Dekay, New York Fauna, 



Fishes, p. 53. pi. 17. f. 47. 



D. 10 I 14. A. 11. 



Two spines above the snout ; four on the prseoperculum, the upper 

 one much shorter than the diameter of the eye. The distance 

 between the eyes is one -half of their diameter ; ventral fin reaching 

 nearly to the vent. Yellowish, with confluent bars and blotches over 

 the back and sides ; aU the fins with interrupted black bars. (Dek.) 



Coast of New York. 



15. Cottus bubalis. 



Cottus, sp. 3, pt., Artedi, Gen. p. 49, Spec. p. 86; Gronov. Zoophyl. 



no. 268. 

 Cottus scorpius, pt.,i. Syst. i. p. 452; Gronov. Sijst. ed. Gray, p. 102. 

 Scorpius marinus, Schonev. Ichth. p. 67. tab. 6. 

 Tonning in Trondhj. Selsk. Skr. ii. p. 345. tab. 13, 14. 

 Cottus bubalis, Euphrasen, N. Schtved. Abhandl. vii. p. 64. t. 3. f. 2, 3 ; 



Bl. Schn. p. 62 ; Cuv. 8c Val. iv. p. 165. pi. 78 ; Ekstrom, Fische 



Morko, p. 182; Fries och Ekstr. p. 27. t. 6. f. 1, 2; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. 



2nd edit. i. p. 78 ; Parn. Fishes Frith of Forth, p. 25 ; Owen, Osteal. 



Catal. i. p. 55. 

 Aspieottus bubalis, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, p. 130. 

 bison, Girard, I. c. 



D. 8 I 11-12. A. 9. Ca3c. pylor. 8. Vert. i|. 



Two smaU spines above the snout ; behind the eyes two obtuse 

 parallel ridges, including a quadi'angular space much longer than 

 broad. Four praeopercular spines, two of which are at the angle, 

 and a thii'd in the middle of the posterior margin of the bone ; the 

 uppermost is longer than the diameter of the eye. The ventral fin 

 terminates at some distance from the vent, the pectoral reaches to 

 the origin of the anal. Lateral line armed with bony plates. Head, 

 body, and fins variegated with blackish. 



«. European variety. The ridges on the bones of the skull covered 

 with skin, or smooth. Coasts of France and Great Britain ; German 

 Ocean ; Baltic. 



a-c. Adult and half-grown. Brighton. Presented by Dr. A. Giintlier. 

 d-g. Adult. Falmouth. Purchased. 



