138 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



TELEOSTOMI . AC ANTHOPTERI . 



GADIDAE. 



Meiiangus purpureus Storer. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 1858, 

 vol. 6, p. 358, pi. 28, fig. 3. 



ME. Along the whole coast. Eastport (U. S. nat. mus. 1872; 

 Verrill 1871; Bean 1880; Kendall coll. 1893); off Moosabec 

 Light; Isle au Haute, Matinic, Matinicus, Monhegan and Seguin 

 islands; Cape Porpoise (Collins & Rathbun 1887); Sheepscot 

 River (Bowdoin college); Casco Bay (Lee 1885; Kendall coll. 

 1892; 1896; 1900-1904); Searsport; Stockton Springs; Brook- 

 ville (Evermann 1903). 



MASS. Common along whole coast; Jeffries Ledge (Storer 

 1839 and 1859); Provincetown (Atwood 1867); Salem Harbor 

 (B. S. X. H., Brown coll.); Annisquam (B. S. X. H., Hyatt & 

 Van Vleck coll.); Woods Hole (Baird 1873 and Bean 1880); 

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

 Bight (Kendall coll. 1896); Vineyard Sound (Smith 1898); Nan- 

 tucket (Sharp & Fowler 1904). 



R. I. Xarragansett Bay (R. I. fish comm. 1899); Dutch Island 

 Harbor and from Brentons Reef to Sakonnet (Tracy 1906). 



CONN. Long Island Sound; Stratford (Linsley 1844). 



317. MICROGADUS TOMCOD (Walbaum). 

 Tomcod; Frostfish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 3, p. 

 2540. 



Gadus tomcod Walbaum, Artedi Pise., 1792, p. 133. "NEW 

 YORK." 



Morrhua pruinosa DeKay. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad. 1858, 

 vol. 6, p. 357, pi. 27, fig. 5. 



ME. Common along whole coast. Eastport (U. S. nat. mus. 

 1872; Bean 1880; Kendall coll. 1893); Machias, Chandlers, 

 Wescongus, Tunk, Penobscot, Kennebec and Piscataqua rivers; 

 Casco Bay and tributaries (Atkins 1887); Casco Bay (Lee 1885; 



