124 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



TELEOSTOMI. ACANTHOPTERI. 



COTTIDAE. 



Bight (Kendall coll. 1896); Cape Cod (Jordan & Evermann 

 1898); Woods Hole (Baird 1873; Bean 1880 and Smith 1898); 

 Nantucket (Sharp & Fowler 1904). 



R. I.— Brentons Reef (Tracy 1906). 



Conn. — Stonington (Linsley 1844). 



288. Gymnocanthus tricuspis (Reinhardt). 

 Staghom sculpin. 



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

 2008. 



Cottus tricuspis Reinhardt, Kong. Dansk. vid. selsk. Afh., 1838, 

 vol. 7, p. 117. "Greenland." 



Me.— Eastport (U. S. nat. mus. 1872). 



289. Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin). 

 Sea raven; Sea sculpin; Toadfish. 



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

 2023; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 305, fig. 738. 



Scorpaena americana Gmelin, Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, p. 1220. 

 "America." 



Hemitripterus acadianus Storer. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 

 1853, vol. 5, p. 83, pi. 7, fig. 4. 



Me.— Eastport (U. S. nat. mus. 1872; Bean 1880; Kendall coll. 

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

 1896); Bucksport (U. S. nat. mus. 1878; Bean 1880); Portland 

 (Bean 1880). 



N. H.— 



Mass. — "Very common" (Storer 1836); Massachusetts Bay 

 (Storer 1853); Salem Harbor (Putnam 1856); Waquoit (Lyman 

 1872); Annisquam (B. S. X. H., Hyatt, Van Vleck & Gardiner 

 coll.); Boston; Nantucket; Gloucester (Bean 1880); North Truro; 



