54 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



Coitus octodecimspinosus, Sculpin, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ., III. p. 46. 



" •< Griffith's Cvv., pi. 43. fig. 4. 



Coitus Virginianus, Common Sculpin, Will., Storer's Report, p. 18. 



" " Common Bull-head, Hekay's Report, p. 51, pi. 5, fig. 13. 



4. Cottus scorpioides, Fab. 



The upper portion of the body is fuliginous ; the abdomen yellow. A white line extends 

 from the ventral fins to the anus. The anterior portion of the ventrals, and the inferior por- 

 tion of the sides, are spotted with white. The spines on the head smaller than in the Groen- 

 landicus. Pectorals very large. 



D. 10-15. P. 15. V. 3. A. 12. C. 15. Smaller than preceding. 



Greenland, Fabricius. 



Cottus scorpioides, Fad , Fauna Groenlandica, p. 157, No. 114. 



Le petit Chaboisseau du Groenland (Cottus scorpioides, Fab.), Cuv. el Val., iv. p. 187. 



Cottus scorpioides, Pokudtuk, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, III. p. 47. 



Coitus quadricornis, Parry's Firs! Voyage, Appendix. 



3. Cottus ceneus, Mitchill. 



This species is of a yellowish brown color above, shaded throughout with fuliginous 

 blotches, lighter colored on the sides of the abdomen, beneath the lateral line ; cheeks bra- 

 zen ; fins yellowish, with brownish bars. A broad band of very minute black points, com- 

 mencing beneath the pectoral fins, extends even beyond the anus, along the edge of the 

 anal fin ; the portion in front of the anus contains one or more rows of well-marked, large, 

 circular yellow spots. One or two irregular rows of very obvious roughened tubercles 

 above, and quite a number of smaller tubercles scattered over the sides, beneath the lateral 

 line. 



D. 10-15. P. 16. V. 3. A. 13. C. 17. Length, 5 to 12 inches. 



Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Ayres. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Cottus a;neus, Brazen Bull-head, Mitchill, Trans Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p 3S0. 

 Le Chaboisseau bronze, Collus ceneus, Cuv. el Val , IV., p. 139. 



" Brazen Bull-head, Storer's Report, p. 20. 

 " " " Dekay's Report, p. 52, pi. 6, fig. 19. 



Cottus variabilis, Ayres, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 251). 



G. Cottus pistilliger, Pall. 



The body above is brown, with indistinct points of a deeper brown ; beneath, it is yellow- 

 ish. The large spine at the angle of the preoperculum does not extend beyond the opercu-" 

 lum, and it has but two spinules at its upper edge, one of them in its centre, the other near 

 the point. The inferior edge of the preoperculum has three strong points directed obliquely 

 forward. The lateral line is marked by a row of roughened tubercles ; and beneath it, upon 

 the sides, are small filaments, terminated by enlarged extremities, causing them to look like 

 little mushrooms. 



D. 9-13. P. 18. V. 1-3. A 16. C. 13. Length, 5 inches. 



