PISCES. 123 



TELEOSTOMI. ACANTHOPTERL 



COTTIDAE. 



Bay (U. S. nat. mus, 1873); Portland (Bean 1880); Whaleboat 

 Island, Casco Bay (Kendall coll. 1892); Penobscot River and Bay 

 (Evermann 1893). 



MASS. Nahant; Boston (Storer 1839); Nantucket" Shoals 

 (Storerl848); Shores of Massachusetts Bay (Ayres 1850); Chelsea 

 (Girard 1850); near Craigie Bridge, Boston (Ayres 1850); off 

 Nantucket; Massachusetts Bay (Storer 1853); Salem (Wheatland 

 1859 and Bean 1880); Gloucester (Bean 1880); North Truro 

 (Kendall coll. 1896); Woods Hole (Smith 1898); Cape Cod (Jordan 

 & Evermann 1898). 



R. I. Narragansett Bay (R. I. fish comm. 1899). 



CONN. Long Island Sound (Linsley 1844); Shores (Girard 

 1850). 



287. MYOXOCEPHALUS OCTODECIMSPINOSUS (Mitchill). 

 Sculpin; Hacklehead; Toadfish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1976; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 296, fig. 718. 



Coitus 18-spinosus Mitchill, Rept. fish. N. Y., 1814, p. 7. "NEW 

 YORK." 



Acanthocottus virginianus Girard. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 

 1853, vol. 5, p. 76, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



ME. Common along whole coast. Eastport (Verrill 1871 ; 

 Kendall coll. 1893); Casco Bay (U. S. nat. mus. 1873; Lee 1885; 

 Kendall coll. 1892-1903); Bucksport (U. S. nat. mus. 1878); 

 Portland (Bean 1880). 



N. H. 



MASS. "Our bay" (Storer 1836) ; Massachusetts Bay (B .S. N. H., 

 Kneeland & Wheatland coll.); Chatham (B. S. N. H., David- 

 son coll.); common (Storer 1839 and 1853); Salem (Wheatland 

 1859); Waquoit (Lyman 1872); Boston (Goode 1879); Salem; 

 Gloucester (Bean 1880); North Truro; Monomoy; Menemsha 



