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was presented to tlie United States ISTatioual ZVIuseiim bj- Prof, llobert 

 CoUett. The agreement between these two in all essential particulars 

 is very striking. We may safely record this species, then, at least as 

 far south as Eastjiort. The ti'ue Coitus scorpiiis may be distinguished 

 from the sub-species which follows by its narrower interorbital distance, 

 and the lesser length of the dorsal spines, particularly the anterior ones. 



Table of Measurements. 

 Species, Cottus scorpius Linn. 



Current number of specimen , 

 Locality 



21,742 rt, d- 

 Cumljerland Gulf. 



Millime- 

 tres. 



Extreme lonjjtli 



Length to origin of middle caudal rays 



Body: 



Greatest height 



G reatest width (at pectoral base) 



Height at vent rals 



Least height of tail 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Distance from snout to nape 



Greatest width at base of prseop. spines 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Length of up])er jaw 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal (spinous) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Lengtli from end of dorsal to origin of mid- 

 dle eaudal lays 



Length of lirst spine 



Leuuth (if .second spine 



Length of tliird siiiue 



Length of foiirlli spine , 



Length of lifth spine 



Lengtli of sixth spine 



Length of seventh spine 



Lengt h of eightli sjiine 



Length of ninfli .s])iuo 



Length (d' tt nth sjiiuo 



Length of hmgest ray 



Length of last ray 



Anal : 



Di.stance from snout 



Length of Viriso , 



Lengt li of first ray 



Lengtli of longest ray 



Length of last ray 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Pectoral: 



Distance from snout (upper axil) 



Length 



Ventral: 



Distance from snout , 



Length , 



Br.anchiostegals J 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Pectoral 5 



Ventral 



169 

 140 



21,989, ?. 



Cumberland 

 Gulf. 



Kight vr ) 



Left VII 5 

 X, IG 

 14 

 Right 19) 

 Left 18 i 

 1,3 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



23 



21 



23 



6 



38 

 2G 

 23 



51 



9'^ 

 18^ 

 20 

 10 



Milli- 

 metres. 



180 

 150 



VI 



X, 16 

 13 



17 



1,3 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



24 



21 



24 



6 



38 

 27 

 23 



4.i 



9 

 18 

 20 

 10 



8 



30 



25 



10 



9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 11 



9 



7 



17 

 C 



64 



24 



7 



14 



^ 

 20 

 34 



27 



32 



20 



10,374, juv. 

 Eastport, Me. 



Milli- 

 metres. 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



VI 



IX, 15 

 14 



17 



1,3 



24 

 20 

 24 



11 

 12 

 13 

 12 

 11 

 10 

 8 



3 



