ADDENDA — IC8 (rt). AGONID^ LEPTAGONUS. 955 



dorsals contiguous ; aual inserted under fourth ray of second dorsal ; 

 caudal G in length ; lateral line incomplete ; vent nearer base of caudal 

 than tip of snout. Head 2i; depth 4.^. D. VlII-17; A. 12; V. I, 3. 

 L. 3 inches. Lake Superior. {Girard.) 



Page G99. After UramcleaffanJdini add: 

 1069 {h). U. foi'Bnosa (Grd.) Jor. 



Body slender and graceful ; head small, depressed above ; eyes mod- 

 erate; preopercular spine short, stout, acute, curved upwards; a small 

 spine below it ; subopercular spine well developed. Dorsals well sei)a- 

 rated; anal beginning under third vny of soft dorsal; pectorals not 

 reaching to posterior margin of spinous dorsal; ventrals not nearly to 

 vent. Head 41 D. VIII-16; A. 11; V. I, 3. L. 3{ inches. Deep 

 water in Lake Ontario. {Girard.) 



{Coitus formosas Girard, Mon. Cott. 58, 1850.) 



Page 703. To the synonymy of Cottm scorpiun groenlandicus add : 



{Coitus mitehUU C. & V. iv, 188 : Coitus porosus C. & V. viii, 498 : Acanthocottus occl- 

 laius H. R. Storer, Bost. Jonrn. Nat. Hist. 1^50, 27).i: Coitus (jlaciaJis Rich. Last Arctic 

 Voyage Belch, ii, 349, 1855: Acauthocoitus mucosus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 1854, 12.) 



Page 712. A minute patch of palatine teeth is sometimes jireseut in 

 Liocottus himndu. 



Page 726. Instead of Braeliyoims read : 



3§3.— I.EPTAOO]\US Gill. 



(Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1831, 259: type Agonus spinosissimus KroycT =:Agonua 

 decagon U8 Bl. & Schu.) 



The species should stand as — 



a. Lower jaw iirojcctiiig. {Brachyopsis Gill.) 



1112. L.. roslratiis (Tiles.) J. & G. 



1113. Ii. verrucosus (Lock.) J. & G 



1114. Ii. xyosecrnus .J. & G. 



Art. Lower jaw included, {f.cpiagonua.) 



1 1 15. Ii. decag^onus (Bl. & Schn.) .7. & G. 



The following description of X. decagonus may be substituted for that 

 given in the text : 



Greyish yellow, with 2 to 4 large transverse brown spots; tips of pec- 

 torals and caudal blackish ; a black streak through eye across preo- 



