128 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARCTIC AMERICA. 



be amiss to reproduce his clescrii)tion.* Concerning the specific name 

 jnatiUlgcr, ^^r. Liitken says:t "Influenced by Steindachner's notice 

 (Wien. Sitzmigsb. 1870) on C. instiUUjvr, Palhis, I have sought informa- 

 tion concerning this species in the Bcrhn Museum ; the type is only a 

 bad lialf skin jn-eservcd in spirits ; Prof. Peters has been so obliging 

 as to send it to me for investigation, and I have thereby been able to 

 convince myself that the 'pistils' which Pallas describes as soft threads 

 with spongy heads are in reality only the half cruciform, spiny scales 

 which distinguish a certain part of the side of the body in C. iricuspis. 

 Since the name ^jnstilliger^ is thus founded on a misapprehension, its 

 reputed priority' (1811) cannot require that it be given the preference 

 over the next in the series, and we should therefore fix npon the name 

 Phohcior Tcntralis, Cuv. & Yal." If we were to throw out all names 

 which are l/ased upon a misapprehension it would involve us in a great 

 deal of unnecessary confusion, and it would be difficult to decide how 

 far the elimination should proceed. The fiict that Tiw Liitken could re- 

 cognize the peculiarity in which the specific name originated is a sort of 

 apology for its adoption bj' Pallas. 



24. Icelus hamatus Krilycr. 



Icdus hamatus GttNTii., P. Z. S., 1S77, pp. '293, 47C. 



This species was collected in Discovery Bay, Franklin Pierce Bay, and 

 at Cape Xapoleon, in the month of August, by Captain Feilden, and in 

 Franklin Pierce Bay, August 11, 1875, by Mr. C. Hart. 



25. Triglops pingelii R»'inh. 



Tn;ilopn })i»fj(Hi fU'NTH., P. Z. S., 1877, p. 47fi. 



Taken in Franklin Pierce Bay, August 11, 187."), by ]\Ir. C. Hart, 

 naturalist on boanl II. ^I. S. "Discovery." 



The United States Fish Commission has many specimens in its col- 

 lections of 1877 and 1878. 



•Nat. nist. Fishes, Ainpliibians, &, Reptiles, II, Loudon, 1839, pp. 181 & 271. 

 p. 181. G"i':wxoc^vXTnus-. Nape of flic head contracted; cj-cs wifli bony orbits, 

 p. 271. GymxoC/VXTIIu.s Sw. Resembling in geueial aspect the last, ( CoHhh clarigcr, 

 C. Sc v.), but there are no npper orbits; spines of the head few and naked ; 

 ventral fins very long, and of 3 rnys; dorsals distinct ; the rays of the first naked 

 on iheir terminal half (f); caudal fin truncate. 



G. rcntral'iH, C. &: V. iv, pi. 79, fig. 1. 

 t Aftryk af Vidensk.ibcligc McddclelscrfradeuuaturhistoriskoFureuingKjobcuhavn, 

 187G, p. 10. 



