PISCES. 63 



TELEOSTOMI. HEMIBRANCHI. 



GASTEROSTEIDAE. 



134. Gasterosteus bispinosus Walbaum. 

 Two-spined sticklelaack. 



Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, p. 450. " Near New York, 

 Hempstead, L. I.] " 



Gasterosteus wheatlandi Putnam. Storer, Mem. x\mer. acad., 

 1867, vol. '9, p. 279. 



Gasterosteus gladiunculus Kendall. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 

 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 3, p. 2836. 



Me. — Along the whole coast in salt and brackish water. Bay 

 of Fundy (Bowdoin college 1891); Creek at Small Point, Casco 

 Bay; off Monhegan Island (Kendall coll. 1896); Porters Landing, 

 Freeport (Kendall coll. 1898; 1899, 1900 and 1903); New Mead- 

 ows River (Bowdoin college 1901). 



Mass.— Swampscott (M. C. Z.); Nahant (Storer 1867); Woods 

 Hole (Smith 1898). 



Conn.— Stratford [?] (Linsley 1844). 



135. Apeltes quadra cus (Mitchill). 

 Four-spined stickleback; Bloody stickleback. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus.. 1896, pt. 1, p. 

 752; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 120, fig. 322. 



Gasterosteus quadracus Mitchill, Trans, lit. & philos. soc. N. Y., 

 1815, vol. 1, p. 430. "New York." Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 

 1853, vol. 5, p. 89, pi. 8, fig. 4. 



Me. — Along the whole coast in brackish water. Eastport 

 (U. S. nat. mus. 1872); Casco Bay (U. S. nat. mus. 1873); Chick- 

 awaka Lake and outlet, Rockland (Smith & Kendall 1896) ; Free- 

 port (Kendall coll. 1898-1903). 



Mass.— Salem (Storer 1839 and Wheatland 1859); from 

 Boston to Provincetown (Storer 1853); freshwater pond, Annis- 



