116 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARCTIC AMERICA. 



217G5. (858.) Head of Cuml.oilaml Gulf, June 29, 1878. D.41. A.m. P. 34. CIO. 



"Fastened to kelp in 5 fathoms." — Kumlien. 



21752. (573.) Annanactook, Cuniberlaiul Gulf. 



Ecforred doubtlully to L. ruhjaris. The specimen is young and in bad 

 (•(iiulitioii. It was taken in fatlioiiis. 



Kichardson (F. B. A., iii, 183G, p. 2G3) mentions this species from the 

 west side of Davis Strait in lat. 70^, and from Eegent's Inlet. 



Professor Collett found the alimentaiy canal of one of his specimens 

 filled with small amphipods, one of them being Caprella septentrionaUs 

 Kr., together witli many individuals of Protomedeia fasciata Kr.* 



16. Liparis Fabricii Kroyer. 



Lipariii Fahitii GtXTiiER, P. Z. S., 1877, pp. 294, 476. 



Dr. Giinther has examined specimens collected in Discovery Bay and 

 Franklin Pierce Bay. 



Family, AGONID^. 



17. Aspidophoroides nionopterygiua (Bloeh) Storer. 



AspUloplKyroUles movojytcrygiiis GCnth., P. Z. S., 1877, p. 295. 



A young individual was taken in 30 fathoms, lat. 05° N., long. 53° W. — 

 Giinther^ I. c. 



Family, COTTID^. 



18. Cottua Bcorpins Linn. 



21989. (151.) 2 Xiantilic Harbor, Cunil.ovland Cnlf, A. L. Knmlion. 



21742. (180.) S Niiintilic Harbor, Cuniborland Gulf, A. L. Kunilieu. 



Mr. Kumlien collected tlii.s individual on the 25th of September, 1S77, 

 at which tune its colors must have been exceedingly brilliant, judging 

 from the traces which still remain. He states in his notes, that it lives 

 "among the rocks at the bottom, feeding largely on Crustacea and mol- 

 lusks." Coitus scorpius, and tlic sub-species gronlandicus, but especially 

 the latter, formed an important i)art of the food supjdy of the expe<li- 

 tion. 



Tlie.se specimens of f'ottiis scorpixs arc clearly identical with Scandi- 

 navian e\atni)les of tlie same species, as may b(^ seen iVoin the tables of 

 njeasurements which follow. In all the tables it must be remembered 

 that the unit of length is tlie total length witliout caujlal. So far as I 

 know, t lie true Coitus scorjuus lias not i)reviously been found on the 

 east coa.st of America. A young individual, catalogue-number 10374, 

 eollcctcd at l'ast]»ort. ^VFe., by tlie United States Fish Commission, may 

 be compared with ou^ a tritie larger, catalogue-number 220G0, which 



"Collrtt, 1. C. 



