138 NATURAL HISTORY OF ARCTIC AMERICA. 



Family, SACCOPHABYNGID^. 



37. Saccopharynx flagellum Mitch. 



Ophiognathua ampullaceus HARWOOD, Phil. Trans., 1827, p. 49, pi. 7 (Me Rich.;. 

 SaccopTiarynx ampullaceus RICH., F. B. A., iii, 1836, p. 271. 

 " The individual described by Dr. Harwood, measuring four feet and 

 a half in length, was captured in the entrance of Davis Strait, by Cap- 

 tain Sawyer, of the ship Harmony." RICH., I. c. 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, April 3, 1879. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE. The description of a species of Cottus from 

 the United States by Sauvage* has just come to my notice. The sub- 

 ject of the description and figure is undoubtedly the Cottus ceneus of 

 Mitchill. 



MAY 23, 1879. 



* Cottus (Acanthocottus) anceps SAUVAGE, Nouv. Archiv. du Museum d'Histoire Natu- 

 Paris, Deuxifcme Srie, Tome Premier, 1878, p. 145, pi. i, fig. xiii. 



