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The anal arises upon the anterior half of body ; it is similar in its form and the 

 character of its rays and their enveloping membrane to the dorsal, and is also, like that 

 fin, connected with the caudal. 



The caudal is rounded, and appears like the prolongation of the dorsal and anal fins. 



D. 78. P. 15. A. 50. C. 15. Length three feet. 



Remarks. This is a very rare species. I have known of only seven individuals 

 being taken. One of these Mr. Jonathan Johnson, Jr. sent me from Nahant ; one 

 was found by Dr. Henry Bryant of this city, at Commercial Point, Dorchester ; one 

 I received from Captain Atwood of Provincetown ; three of the remainder were said 

 to have been taken in Massachusetts Bay ; and the last was found by Horatio R. 

 Storer on a beach in Nova Scotia. The finest specimen, taken by Captain Atwood, 

 has served for the above description. 



GENUS VIII. HEMITRIPTERUS, Cut. 



The head depressed ; two dorsals, as in Cottus ; no regular scales on the skin, 

 but teeth in the palates. The head is bristly and spinous, and has several cutaneous 

 appendages. The first dorsal is deeply emarginate, a circumstance which has led some 

 authors to believe there were three dorsal fins. 



Hemitripterus Acadianus, Storer. 



The Deep-ivater Sculpin. 



(Plate VII. Fig. 4.) 



Cottus Acadianus, Acadian Bull-head, Penh., Arc. Zool., ii. p. 118. 



Scorpmna flata. Yellow Scorpana^ MiTCHii.r,, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 362, pi. 2, fig. S. 



Scorpana purpurea et S. ru/a, Mitchili., Amer. Month. Mag., ii. p. 245. 



L' Hemitriptire de V.imirique, Hemitripterus Jlmericanus, Cut. et Val., it. p. 268, pi. 84. 



Hemitripterus Amer: 



canus. Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, in. p. 50. 

 Regne Animal, ed. Val., pi. 22, fig. 1. 

 Griffith's Cut., x. p. 141, pi. 53, fig. 3. 

 Sea-Raten, Deep-water Sculpin, Storer, Report, p. 23. 

 .American Sea-Raven, Dekay, Report, p. 56, pi. 6, fig. 16. 

 LiNSLEV, Cat. of Fishes of Conn. 

 Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad , New Series, ii. p. 310. 

 Storeu, Synopsis, p. 58. 



Color. Varies exceedingly. Some specimens are of a deep blood-red ; others of a 

 pinkish-purple ; while others still are of a yellowish-brown, darker on the back ; each, 

 however, variegated on the head, sides, and fins with irregularly defined markings. 

 Abdomen yellow. A large female, weighing five pounds and measuring twenty-six 



