250 Storer’s Observations on the Fishes of Nova Scotia 
by yourself plainly- show this difficulty, and without a minute 
comparison with the adult fish it would be altogether impos- 
sible to give any opinion in regard to them. The characters 
are but feebly expressed. Sometimes the cephalic spines do 
not exist in specimens of several inches in length. A. Lab- 
radoricus is a more slender fish than A. variabilis, a character 
to' be seen in the young. The head is smaller in app 
ciable proportions. 
“The exact range of this species cannot yet be determined. 
I am inclined to believe that it will be found along the Lab- 
rador coast as far north as Baffin's Bay, and as far south as 
Newfoundland." 
I first noticed itin Yankee Harbor among the St. Mary's 
Islands, off the south-west coast of Labrador, in such abund- 
ance that a barrel or more might be caught in a very few 
moments; thence we traced it as far eastward as Bras d'Or, 
where it appeared to have become of somewhat rarer occur- 
rence. No specimens were seen in the Straits of Belle Isle. 
.9. Acawrnocorres Vireintanus Girard. 
ox my smaller Labrador specimens are two, which 
Mr. Girard, who is certainly a most competent judge, pro- 
nounces to be the young Virginianus. I therefore insert this 
species upon his authority and that of Richardson, who speaks 
of having received a specimen from Newfoundland, although 
I neither saw the adult fish on the Labrador coast, nor that of 
Nova Scotia. 
ore AckNrHOCOTTUS PATRIS H. R. ries 
de Plate VII. fig. 2. 
Color. In the living fish the. top of head and upper 
part of body are dark brown, marbled with greenish and 
crossed by transverse black bands. Abdomen . pure white: 
which color extends up upon the sides in large blotches, with 
golden reflections. sii bigane. 
