278 HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



After this memoir on the Fishes of Massachusetts was completed, aware that several 

 species had been described during its preparation, which I had not included in my com- 

 munication, I requested Mr. Frederick W. Putnam, Curator of Ichthyology in the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and also in the Essex Institute, to furnish me with a list of 

 these. He has placed me under great obligations by sending me the accompanying cat- 

 alogue. 



1. Grystes fasciatus, Ac (Black Bass of the Lakes.) 



This species, which is the common lake bass and black bass of the Great Lakes, Lake 

 Champlain, and several lakes in New York, and which also extends farther south, has 

 been introduced into Great Sandy Lake, in Wareham. In the Summer of 1862, a speci- 

 men of this fish was caught in Massachusetts Bay, by one of the members of the state 

 legislature, and is now in the state cabinet. The fish had evidently found the salt 

 water not much to its liking, as it was much emaciated, and had changed so in its gen- 

 eral appearance as at first sight hardly to be recognized. 



2. Priacanihus altus, Gill, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat, Sci., 1863, p. 332. 



A specimen of this most beautiful little fish was found alive on Marblehead Beach by 

 Miss Mary Nichols, of Salem, and is now in the Essex Institute. Only three other speci- 

 mens are known of this species. 



3. Bryttus obesics, Glrard, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci. Syn. Pomotis obesns, Gm., Procd. 



B. S. N. H. 



Girard's specimens were from Framing-ham. I have found it quite common in several 

 ponds in Essex County, and also in Fresh Pond (Cambridge), and in a pond in Maiden. 

 It is probably a widely distributed species, and may prove to have been described by 

 some of the earlier authors. (See GUI in Procd. Philad. Ac.) 



4. Cryptacanthodes inornatus, Gill, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci., 1863, p. 332. 

 Have seen a specimen of this pure white Cryptacanthodes taken off Swampscott. 



5. Gasterosteus Wheatlandi, Putn., Procd. E. I., v. p. 4, 1866. 



Specimens of this species were taken at Nahant, on April 15, 1859, by the late Dr. R 

 H. Wheatland. The species is very strongly characterized. 



