128 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARCTIC AMERICA. 



be amiss to reproduce liis description.* Concerning the -specific name 

 pistilliger, Dr. Liitkeii saysrt "Influenced by Steindachner's notice 

 (Wien. Sitzungsb. 1876) on C. pistilliger^ Pallas, I have sought informa- 

 tion concerning this species in the Berlin Museum ; the type is only a 

 bad half skin preserved in spirits j Prof. Peters has been so obliging 

 as to send it to me for investigation, and I have thereby been able to 

 convince myself that the ' pistils' which Pallas describes as soft threads 

 with spongy heads are in reality only the half cruciform, spiny scales 

 which distinguish a certain part of the side of the body in C. tricuspis. 

 Since the name i pistilliger 7 is thus founded on a misapprehension, its 

 reputed priority (1811) cannot require that it be given the preference 

 over the next in the series, and we should therefore fix upon the name 

 Phobetor ventralis, Cuv. & Yal." If we were to throw out all names 

 which are b&secl upon a misapprehension it would involve us in a great 

 deal of unnecessary confusion, and it would be difficult to decide how 

 far the elimination should proceed. The fact that Dr. Liitken could re- 

 cognize the peculiarity in which the specific name originated is a sort of 

 apology for its adoption by Pallas. 



24. Icelus hamatus Kroyer. 



Ictlus Jiamatus GUNTH., P. Z. S., 1377, pp. 293, 476. 



This species was collected in Discovery Bay, Franklin Pierce Bay, and 

 at Cape Napoleon, in the month of August, by Captain Feilden, and in 

 Franklin Pierce Bay, August 11, 1875, by Mr. C. Hart. 



25. Triglops pingelii Reinh. 



Trifjlo2)8pingcWGvxT:H., P. Z. S., 1877, p. 476. 



Taken in Franklin Pierce Bay, August 11, 1875, by Mr. C. Hart, 

 naturalist on board H. M. S. " Discovery." 



The United States Fish Commission has many specimens in its col- 

 lections of 1877 and 1878. 



*Nat. Hist. Fishes, Amphibians, & Reptiles, II, London, 1839, pp. 181 & 271. 

 p. 181. GYMXOCAXTHUS. Nape of the head contracted; eyes with bony orbits, 

 p. 271. GYMXOCAXTHUS S w. Resembling in general aspect the last, ( Coitus claviger, 

 C. & V.), but there are uo njrper orbits; spines of the head few and naked ; 

 ventral fins very long, and of 3 rays ; dorsals distinct ; the rays of the first naked 

 on their terminal half (?) ; caudal fin truncate. 



G. veniralls, C. & V. iv, pi. 79, fig. 1. 



t Aftryk af Vidcnskabelige Meddelelserfra denuaturhistoriskeForenmg Kjobenhavn, 

 1876, p. 10. 



