948 Storer’s Observations on the Fishes of Nova Scotia 
* My prevision, however, did not go so far as to suppose 
that the species from Labrador should differ from that of 
Greenland, and I confess in that respect I am not yet fully 
satisfied, not having seen authentic Greenland specimens. 
Nevertheless, I think it would not be proper to refer the 
species from Labrador to the one of Greenland before a care- 
ful comparison can be made. The attention of naturalists 
will thus be directed to investigate how far I am right in 
separating from the Greenland Acanthocottus the species here 
referred to. At any rate it is different from A. grenlandicus 
of the New England coast, and this last I will consider as a 
different species from A. erenlandicus of Greenland, since we 
have an intermediate range occupied by another, the Labra- 
doricus. I still believe that C. variabilis is a young fish and 
as I formerly proposed, this name can be applied now to the 
A. grenlandicus of this coast, there being no necessity of cre- 
ating a new name for it. : 
** We shall accordingly have the following synonymy : 
Acaytuocorrus GmcwLawDiCcUus Grd. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 
Hist. mr. p. 185. — Cottus Grenlandicus Cuv. & VAL 
Hist. Nat. Poiss. 1v. 1829, p. 185.— Cottus scorpius FABR. 
Faun. Grænl. 1780, p. 156. Greenland ; Oth. Fabricius. 
AcantHocorrus Lasraporicus Grd. The species here de- 
scribed. Labrador; Horatio R. Storer. 
Acanruocorrus vaniaPILIS Grd. — Cottus variabilis AYRES 
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. x. 1842, p. 68, and Bost. 
Jour. iv. 1843, p. 259 (Young). — Cottus Grænlandicus 
Ricu. Faun. Bor. Amer. 11. 1836, p. 46, and Add. p- 
297, PL 95, fis. 2.—Srorer Rep. 1839, p. 16.— 
De Kay, New York Fauna, 1842, p. 54, fig. 10. — Maine 
and Massachusetts; Dr. Storer.— Connecticut; W. O- 
Ayres. — Hellgate (N. Y.); De Kay. | 
“The C. quadricornis, Sabine, (App. to Parry’s First Voy- 
1821,) will belong either to the true A. Grenlandicus or to 
