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on their posterior half, and at their tip there seems to be a slight indication of a 
second bifurcation. The ventrals are inserted immediately under the first ray of 
the anterior dorsal, and when bent backwards do not reach the anus. The base of 
the pectorals is oblique, but not crescent-shaped ; if directed backwards their tip 
will reach the third ray of the second dorsal, and leave the anal behind them. 
Their rays, fourteen in number, are undivided, and the six lower ones, shorter and 
thicker, extend beyond the membrane of that fin. 
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he vent is situated nearly midway between the extremity of the snout and 
the insertion of the caudal fin. 
The lateral line is quite conspicuous even on the tail, where it is reduced to 
cutaneous pores. Its fall on the peduncle of the tail is convex upwards, and 
rather near the caudal fin. 
The ground color appears to have been olivaceous yellow, marbled with black, 
the marblings extending likewise to the fins. 
For a specimen of four inches, that which we have had figured, we are indebted 
to the kindness of Rey. Z. Thompson, of Burlington, to whom it was presented by 
Mr. Ransom Colberth, who caught it in June, 1844, while fishing for the Brook 
Trout ina branch of Lamoille River, in the town of Johnson, Lamoille County 
(Vt.). The Lamoille River empties into Lake Champlain, about ten miles north of 
Burlington. This species, therefore, ranges west of the Green Mountains. 
XE. COTTUS BOLEOIDES, Girarp. 
Puate II, Figs. 7 and 8. 
Syn. Cottus bolcoides, GiRARD, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. of Se. IL., 1850, p. 411; and, Proc. Bost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist. III., 1850, p. 189. 
Had the name of gracilis not been preoccupied to designate another species 
of this genus, the one here referred to would have deserved it with great propriety. 
Indeed, although of medium size, it is slender and elongated. The outline of 
the head and back is regular and slightly arched; that of the lower part of the 
head and belly is nearly straight. The sides are full and rounded. The body is 
consequently subfusiform. Its greatest depth is contained six times and a half in 
the total length, while the least depth, in advance of the caudal, enters in it nearly 
twenty times. The thickness is one-fifth less than the depth. 
The head forms a little less than the fourth of the total length; it is nearly as 
deep as broad, but its length is much greater than its width. Its upper surface 
back of the eyes is slightly flattened; the anterior part slopes quite rapidly, 
rendering the snout very obtuse ; the jaws are rounded and of equal length. The 
mouth is proportionally broad ; when it is shut, the posterior extremities of the max- 
illaries extend to a line passing through the pupil. The eyes are very large and 
subcireular; their longitudinal diameter is contained only four times in the length 
of the head. They come very near each other on the frontal line, and are sepa- 
rated by a very narrow space, narrower than in any other species. The anterior 
