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anguillaris Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 97, pi. xvii, fig. 4. A 

 common resident of deep water, frequently approaching the shore. 

 In the young a large black blotch, almost equal in diameter to the eye, 

 is found on the anterior part of the dorsal fin. This disappears with 

 age, sometimes before, sometimes after the fish has attained the 

 length of nine inches. No traces of this can be seen on the young of 

 the European Z. viviparus, so far as observed by us. 



Sub-order ACANTHOPTERI. 

 Family CRYPTACANTHID^. 



46. Cryptacanthodes maculatus Storer. WRY-MOUTH. Cryp- 

 tacanthodes maculatus Storer, Report, 1839, p. 28, Hist. Fish. Mass., 

 1867, p. 34, pi. viii, fig. 6. Cryptacanthodes inornatus Gill. Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., Phila., 1863, p. 332. (Albin,o variety.) The following speci- 

 mens of this unusual species are known to us : (1) seven mentioned 

 in Storer's work, one from Nahant, one from Dorchester, one from 

 Provincetown, one from a beach in Nova Scotia, and three from Mas- 

 sachusetts Bay ; (2) one collected at Provincetown in 1867, by Captain 

 Atwood, and preserved by the Boston Society of Natural History; 

 (3) seven collected by the U. S. Fish Commission on the coast of 

 Massachusetts. Several specimens of this species have been taken 

 on the shores of Essex County, and of the four known individuals of 

 the albino form, described by Gill as C. inornatus, one was obtained 

 at Marblehead and one at Swampscott. 



Family STICH^ID^J. 



47. Eumesogrammus subbifurcatus (Storer') Gill. Pholis 

 subbifurcatus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 92. Storer records 

 the capture of a specimen at Nahant, in 1838. It has been taken by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission at Grand Manan and Halifax, and by Prof. 

 Verrill off Anticosti. 



48. Eumesogrammus unimaculatus (Beirihardt} Goode & 

 Bean. Stichceus unimaculatus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, 1861 

 p. 283. A single specimen from the vicinity of Anticosti was sent to 

 the National Museum for identification by Mr. Whiteaves. 



49. Leptoblonnius serpentinus (Storer) Gill. EEL-BLENNY. 

 Blennius serpentinus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 91, pi. xvii, fig. 

 1. (Represents the dorsal as divided, which was accidental.) A com- 

 mon resident of the deep waters of the bay; a favorite food of the 

 Cod and Halibut. 



60. Leptoclinus aculeatus (Beinh.} Gill. Stichceus aculeatus 

 Gtinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iii, 1861, p. 282. The U. S. Fish Com- 



