638 NEW YORK STATE MU'SEfUM 



waters of the Susquehanna and Allegheny rivers. In New York 

 it was first taken in a stream emptying into Round lake, Hamil- 

 ton county, and in Lake Pleasant, of the same county. Dr 

 Meek examined specimens from the southern end of Cayuga lake, 

 Beaver creek, McLean N. Y., Worcester N. Y., and Bangor N. Y., 

 but it was not so abundant as the preceding species. Eugene 

 Smith says that it is very plentiful in the head streams of the 

 Hackensack and Saddle rivers in New York and New Jersey, in 

 company with black-nosed dace and darters. This species 

 grows to a length of 4 inches and is represented by several 

 varieties, one of which has the body robust instead of slender 

 and another has the slender body as in gracilis, but with 

 longer fins. 



This fish is found under stones in clear, rocky and gravelly 

 brooks. It has no importance either as food or bait and is very 

 destructive to the eggs of other fishes. 



311 XJranidea formosa (Girard) 

 Lake Blob 



Cottus formosus Giraed, Monograph Fresh-Water Cottoids N. A. 58, 1850, 

 Lake Ontario otf Oswego, in stomach of Lota maculosa. 



Uranidea formosa Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 955, 1883; 

 Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1969, 1898. 



Body slender and graceful; head small, depressed above; the 

 length of the head is contained four and one fourth times in the 

 length of the body; eyes moderate; preopercular spine short, 

 stout, acute, curved upwards; a small spine below it; sub- 

 opercular spine well developed. Dorsals well separated; anal 

 beginning under third ray of soft dorsal ; pectorals not reaching 

 to posterior margin of spinous dorsal; ventrals not nearly to 

 vent. 



D. VIII-16; A. II; Y. 1, 3. Length 3i inches. Deep water 

 in Lake Ontario. 



A single mutilated specimen has been recorded, this having 

 been found by Prof. S. F. Baird in the stomach of a Burbot 

 (Lota m a c u 1 o s a) off Oswego N. Y., in Lake Ontario. 



