PISCES. 123 



TELEOSTOMI. ACANTHOPTERI. 



COTTIDAE. 



Bay (U. S. nat. mus. 1873); Portland (Bean 1880); Whaleboat 

 Island, Casco Bay (Kendall coll. 1892); Penobscot River and Bay 

 (Evermann 1893). 



Mass. — Nahant; Boston (Storer 1839); Nantucket Shoals 

 (Storer 1848); Shores of Massachusetts Bay (Ayres 1850); Chelsea 

 (Girard 1850); near Craigie Bridge, Boston (Ayres 1850); off 

 Nantucket; Massachusetts Bay (Storer 1853); Salem (Wheatland 

 1859 and Bean 1880); Gloucester (Bean 1880); North Truro 

 (Kendall coll. 1896); Woods Hole (Smith 1898); Cape Cod (Jordan 

 & Evermann 1898). 



R. I. — Narragansett Bay (R. I. fish comm. 1899). 



Conn. — Long Island Sound (Linsley 1844) ; Shores (Girard 

 1850). 



287. Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus (Mitchill). 

 Sculpin; Hacklehead; Toadfish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1976; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 296, fig. 718. 



Cottus 18-s'pinosus Mitchill, Rept. fish. N. Y., 1814, p. 7. "New 

 York." 



Acanthocottus virginianus Girard. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 

 1853, vol. 5, p. 76, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



Me. — Common along whole coast. Eastport (Verrill 1871 

 Kendall coll. 1893); Casco Bay (U. S. nat. mus. 1873; Lee 1885 

 Kendall coll. 1892-1903); Bucksport (U. S. nat. mus. 1878) 

 Portland (Bean 1880). 



N. H.— 



Mass.— "Our bay" (Storer 1836) ; Massachusetts Bay (B .S. N. H., 

 Kneeland & Wheatland coll.); Chatham (B. S. N. H., David- 

 son coll.); common (Storer 1839 and 1853); Salem (Wheatland 

 1859); Waquoit (Lyman 1872); Boston (Goode 1879); Salem; 

 Gloucester (Bean 1880); North Truro; Monomoy; Menemsha 



