32. coTTus. 163 



entirely smooth, exhibiting, hoAvever, some flat and smooth warts 



above the lateral line ; it is a female. 



The young specimen differs from the adult one in having fourteen 



anal rays. 



The colours have somewhat faded; the upper parts are brown, 



with some darker spots ; the pectoral, dorsal, and caudal fins appear 



to have been spotted, the spots being arranged in bands. The lower 



part of the sides with several white spots. 



inches, lines. 



Total length 7 1 



Length of the head 1 J 1 



Greatest height of the body 1 6 



Smallest height of the tail 4 



Greatest width of the body 1 9 



Width of the space between the eyes .... 5 



Horizontal diameter of the eye 4 



Length of the fourth dorsal spine 10 



of the ninth dorsal ray 11 



of the sixth anal ray 10 



of the caudal 1 1 



of the pectoral 1 6 



of the ventral 1 3 



12. Cottus labradoricus. 



.4.canthocottus labradoricus, Girard, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 1850, 

 p. 247. pi. 7. f. 3. 



B. 6, D. 8 I 17. A. 14. V. 1/3. 



Two spines above the snout, one above the orbit, and two pairs 

 on the crown. Four prseopercular spines, two of which are situated 

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

 width of the eye. A series of granulated plates above the lateral 

 line ; back with scattered bony plates. ( Qir.') 



Coast of Labrador. 



13. Cottus octodecim-spinosus. 



Scorpius virginianus, Williighby, App. p. 25. pi. 10. f. 15. 



Cottus scorpius, Schoepff, Schrift. Naturf. Freunde BerJ. viii. p 145. 



octodecimspinosus, MitchiU, Tra7is.' Lit. 8f Philos. Soc. Neto York, 



i. p. 380; Cuv.SfVal. iv. p. 181; Richards. Faun. Bor. Amer. Fishes, 



p. 46. 

 virginianus, Storer, Rep. Mass. p. 18; Dekay, New York Fauna, 



Fishes, p. 51. pi. 5. f. 13. 

 Acanthocottus virginianus, Gir. Smithson. Contrib. I. c. pi. 3. f. 26-20, 



f. 46-48. 



D. 9 I 16. A. 13-14. Cffic. pylor. 6. Vert. 13/23. 



Two spines above the snout and four on the crown, the latter 

 placed in a quadrangle, much longer than broad. Three prseoper- 

 cular spines, the upper of which is one-half longer than the diameter 

 of the eye» The height of the spinous dorsal is rather more than 



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