184 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
tribution of genera of North American fishes and the isolation of the 
genus Amblyopsis in a family he called ‘* Hypseide.”“ We may pass 
them without comment save that they were laudable attempts at least. 
I have alluded to these defects of Storer’s work because for a long 
time they influenced our conceptions respecting the fishes of the coast 
and were generally adopted. The errors were repeated by Dekay in 
1842 and (pardon the expression of personal experience) the discrep- 
ancy between the facts and the print sadly perplexed my boyish studies 
and for a time made me fear that failure to understand was the fault 
of my stupidity rather than Storer’s and Dekay’s errors. In fact, they 
remained uncorrected till I had to demonstrate that the statements 
were inconsistent with the facts and formulated the views now preva- 
lent.? 
WATE 
In 1872 was published an article which would not call for notice, 
since it is devoted to a limited locality and covers a very short period, 
were it not that the locality is very near Woods Hole and that it ema- 
aMem. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., n. s., II; Syn. Fishes N. A., pp. 4-8; 183, 184, 1846. 
bv Five new specific names appeared for the first time (with descriptions) in the History, viz: 
Scomber Dekayi (Mem. Amer. Acad. y, 180; Hist. 52)=Scomber scombrus (Linnzeus, 1758). 
Thynnus secundo-dorsalis (Mem. Amer, Acad, y, 143; Hist. 65)=Thunnus thynnus (Linnzeus, 1758). 
Blennius serpentinus (Mem. Amer. Acad. y, 257; Hist. 91)=Leptoblennius lampetreformis (Wal- 
baum, 1792). 
Anarrhicas yvomerinus, Agassiz, Ms. (Mem. Amer. Acad., vy, 265; Hist. 99)=Anarrhichas lupus (Lin- 
neeus, 1758). 
Phycis filamentosus (Mem. Amer. Acad.,vi, 417; Hist. 189) =Urophycis chuss (Walbaum, 1780). 
Before and between the periods covered by the publication of the Report and History, Storer pub- 
lished, in the Boston Journal of Natural History and Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, descriptions of a number of nominal new species, viz: 
Ostracion Yalei (Boston Journal 1, 1886, 353) =Lactophrys trigonus (Linnzeus, 1758). 
Hydraigira trifasciata (Boston Journal 1, 1837, 417)=Fundulus majalis (Walbaum, 1792). 
Gasterosteus mainensis (Boston Journal 1, 1887, 465) =Pygosteus pungitius (Linneeus, 1758). 
Myliobatis bispinosus (Proc. Bost. Soc. 1, 1841, 58) =Myliobatis freminvillei (Lesueur, 1824). 
Lota Brosmiana (Boston Journal 4, 1842, 58) =Lota lota (Linnzeus, 1758).—Described from ‘‘a beautiful 
fresh specimen” ‘received from Lake Winnipissiogee,”’ but the species also occursin Massachu- 
setts. 
Etheostoma Olmstedi (Boston Journal 4, 1842, 61)=Boleosoma nigra olmstedi.—Described from speci- 
mens ‘‘found at Hartford,’’ Conn., but the species is also a Massachusetts fish. 
Pomotis rubri-cauda (Boston Journal 4, 1842, 177) =Lepomis auritus (Linneeus, 1758). 
Torpedo occidentalis (Amer, Jour. Sci. and Art, 45, June, 1843, 166)=Tetronarce occidentalis (Storer, 
1843). 
Hydrargira formosa (Proc. Bost. Soc. 1, 1842, 76) =Fundulus majalis (Walbaum, 1792). 
Platessa glabra (Proc. Bost. Soe. 1, 1843, 180; not Rathke, 1887)=Liopsetta putnami (Gill 1864). 
Leptocephalus gracilis (Proc. Bost. Soc, 2, 1845, 76)=Leptocephalus conger (Linnzus, 1758). 
Prionotus pileatus (Proc. Bost. Soc. 2, 1845, 77) =Prionotus carolinus (Linnzeus, 1758). 
Alosa eyanonoton (Proc. Bost. Soe. 2, 1847, 242)—=Pomolobus estivalis (Mitehill, 1815). 
Alosa lineata (Proc. Bost. Soc. 2, 1847, 242) =Pomolobus mediocris (Mitehil], 1815). 
Platessa quadrocellata (Proc. Bost. Soc. 2, 1847, 242)=Paralichthys oblongus (Mitchill, 1815). 
Motella caudacuta (Proc. Bost. Soe. 3, 1848, 5) =Rhinonemus cimbrius.(Linnzeus, 1766). 
Blennius serpentinus (Proc, Bost. Soc. 3, 1848, 30; named only)=Leptoblennius lampetraformis 
(Walbaum, 1792). 
Carcharias Atwoodi (Proe. Bost. Soe. 3, 1848, 72)=Carcharodon carcharias (Linneus, 1758). 
Zeus ocellatus (Proc. Bost. Soc. 6, 1858, 386) =Zenopsis ocellatus (Storer, 1858). 
In the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2. ser., vol. 2), and in the ‘‘Synop- 
sis of the Fishes of North America,’ reproduced from it, in 1846, two new names were introduced for 
Massachusetts fishes, viz: 
Monacanthus signifer (Mem. 497, Syn. 245; M. setifer DeKay, not of Bennett)=Monacanthus hispidus 
(Linnzeus, 1766). 
Acanthias americanus (Mem, 506, Syn. 254) =Squalus acanthias (Linnzeus, 1758). 
