the Peary Auxiliary Expedition, 1894. 217 



Besides the purely marine species above mentioned, 13 

 specimens of Gasterosteus aculeatua were caught on the beach 

 at Godhavn ; including these, the total number of fishes 

 obtained by the Expedition amounts to 171 (1-73) specimens, 

 distributed among 10 (11) spc-cies. 



Phohetor ventralis, Cuv. & Valenc. 



Coitus ventrah's, Ciivier &, Valenciennes, Hist. nat. des Poissous, t. iv. 



p. 194. 

 Phohetor triatspis, II. Kriiver, Naturhist. Tidskiift. 2Jen Riekke, 



Iste Bind, p. 21).'}. 

 Acanthocottus patrts, II. R. Storei", " Observations on the Fishes of 



Nova Scotia and Labrador," ike, Boston Journal of Natural History, 



vol. vi. p. 250, pi. vii. fifr. 2. 

 Gy^nnacanthus pistilliger, R. Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic 



Expedition, 1876-78, Zoology, Fishes, p. 20. 



This sj)ecies is represented by three specimens (one male 

 and two females) from Inglefield Gulf, which is, so far as I 

 know, the point furthest north on the coast of Greenland 

 where this species has been observed, Nares's Expedition 

 (see above) did not obtain any specimens. According to 

 Collett and Malmgren it is still common in the Atlantic Ocean 

 around Northern Spitzbergen. Amongst the specimens ob- 

 tained during the Expedition the largest measures 108 millim. 

 in length. One sjiecimen has 12 rays in the first dorsal fin, 

 the usual number being 10 or 11. 



Icelus hamatus, Kroyer. 



Icelus hamatus, H. Kroyer, torn. cit. p. 2o3 ; A. Giinther, " Account of 

 the Fishes collected" by Capt. Feilden between 78° and 83° N. lat. 

 during the Arctic Expedition, 1875-76," Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 

 1877, p. 293; R. Collett, he. cit. p. 34, pi. i. fig. 8 ; Ohr. Liitken, 

 Uijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte, p. 123 (1887). 



Dr. Oliliu's collection contains no less than 101 specimens of 

 this species, which is, perhaps, the most common and widely 

 distributed among the arctic Cottids. The greatest number 

 (61) are from Inglefield Gulf; of the remainder, 38 specimens 

 were caught in Murchison's Sound and 2 in the neighbour- 

 hood of Northumberland Island. Tiie largest specimen (a 

 female 95 millim, in length) is from Inglefield Gulf; the 

 smallest is 30 millim. long and from the same locality. 

 Between these two all sizes are well represented. 



The proportion of males to females is as 7 to 10. 



Concerning the extension of the lateral line, Collett * 

 says that it is often absent posteriorly, " which cannot be 



• L. c. 



