32. coTTUS. 159 



IS nearer to tlie base of the caudal fin than to the tip of the snout. 

 The first dorsal is nearly as high as the second, the pectoral does 

 not reach to the anal, and the origin of the anal falls vertically below 

 the fourth dorsal ray. 

 Lake Superior. 



8. Cottus boleoides. 



Girard, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sc. ii. 1850, p. 411, and Froc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. iii. 1850, p. 189, and Smithson. Coittrib. I. c. p. 56. 

 pi. 2. f. 7, 8. 



D. 8-9 I 17. A. 11-12. 



Skin smooth. Armatui'e of the head as in C. gohio. Lateral Hne 

 aliove the middle of the body, not reaching to the caudal, and termi- 

 nating below the dorsal. Vent in the middle of the distance between 

 the snout and the root of the caudal ; the second doj-sal and the 

 anal higher than the body between them ; the ventrals extend to, 

 or slightly beyond, the vent ; the pectoral beyond the third ray of 

 the anal. Pectoral, dorsal, and caudal fins strioiated and dotted with 

 blackish. (Glr.) 



Along the western slope of the Green Mountains. 



9. Cottus scorpius. 



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



no. 268. 



scorpius, pt., L. Syst. i. p. 452 ; Gronov. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 102. 



Corystion, sp., Klein, Miss. iv. p. 47. no. 11. tab. 13. f. 2, 3. 



Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 284 (lower figure ; faulty). 



Cottus scorpius, Block, taf. 4(T; Bl. Schn. p. 60; Lacep. iii. p. 236; 



Donov. Brit. Fishes, ii. pi. 35 ; Cm}. ^- Val. iv. p. 160 ; JEkstroni, 



Fische Morko, p. 171 ; Fries och Ekstr. p. 23. pi. 5. f. 1, 2 ; Parn. 



Fish. Frith of Forth, p. 23; Yarrell, i. p. 75 (not Pallas). 



D. 10 1 14. A. 11-12. Cffic. pylor. 9. Vert. i^. 



Two small spines above the snout and four more or less obtuse 

 tubercles on the crown ; three pra^opercular spines, two of which 

 are at the angle, the upper one the longest, rather less than the 

 width of the eye. The height of the first dorsal is less than the 

 length of the maxillary bone. Sldn naked, in some incfividuals 

 with several granulated plates. The pectoral does not reach to the 

 origin of the anal. Above blackish, marbled with grepsh ; the soft 

 dorsal and anal fins \vith oblique blackish bands ; the caudal with 

 vertical bands. 



Coasts of Great Britain ; German Ocean ; Baltic. 



a. Large female. England. Presented by W. Yarrell, Esq. 



b. Large female : skin. South Devon. From Mr. Yarrell's Collec- 



tion as " Four-horned Cottus.^' 

 <;. Adult. Mouth of the Thames. Presented by T. Henslow, Esq. 



d. Adult. Brighton. Presented by Dr. A. Giinther. 



e. Adult : stuffed. Plymouth. Presented by Lieutenant H. F. 



Spcnce, R.N. 



