Section V, 1919 [69] Trans. R.S.C. 



Notes on a Collection of Fishes from Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 



By Barton A. Bean and Alfred C. Weed, 

 OF THE Division of Fishes, U. S. National Museum 



Presented by Professor E. E. Prince, F. R.S.C. 

 (Read May Meeting, 1919.) 



An interesting collection of about two hundred specimens of 

 fishes was obtained by Professor John Macoun, Naturalist of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey, and Messrs. C. H. Young and W. 

 Spreadborough September" 8th and 9th, 1908, on the shore of Depar- 

 ture Bay, and from May to August 1909, near Ucluelet, Vancouver Is- 

 land. The fishes were sent to the United States National Museum 

 for identification and a full set of the duplicates is retained there. 



The collection is quite valuable from a scientific point of view 

 in that it adds specimens to those already known of several rare 

 species, extends the known range of some other forms, and furnishes 

 one specimen which is here described as belonging to a new genus and 

 species. This cottid may represent the hitherto unknown male of 

 some well known form, but shows sufficiently well marked differences 

 to separate it from any species of which we find a description in the 

 literature, and the points in doubt can only be settled by a careful 

 biologic study of this and other species living in the tide pools. 



Additional specimens, collected in British Columbia by Messrs. 

 J. H. Keen, A. Halkett, G. M. Dawson, Prof.- E. E. Prince, and the 

 above-named naturalists, were received at Washington in 1918, and 

 are listed under their proper families in this paper. 



Family HEPTATREMID^ 



POLISTOTREMA STOUTI (Lockiugton) 



One specimen, 183/^ inches long, taken by Mr. C. H. Young in 

 Ship Channel, Barclay Sound, July, 1909. Known as "Hagfish." 



Family PETROMYZONTID^ 



Entosphenus trident ATA (Gairdner). Three-toothed Lamprey. 



One specimen, 18-5 cm. long, Comox, British Columbia, June 

 1893, John Macoun. 



