agonidjE. — Lxxrv. 151 



depth 6. D. VII -18. A. 15. ¥.1,3. L. 3. Deep waters of 

 L. Michigan and L. Ontario. (To Eev. Zadock Thompson, author 

 of Nat. Hist, of Vermont.) 



191. TRIGLOPS Keinhardt. {rpiyKa, Trigla; &i\r, appearance.) 



419. T. pingeli Reinhardt. Head slender; eye large; taU very 

 slender; preopercular spines small, simple; sides with peculiar 

 scales and prickles. Olivaceous, variegated with darker; sides 

 spotted with dark ; a black ocellus on spinous D. Head 3^ ; depth 

 about 5^. D. IX-21. A. 21. L. 5. Arctic seas, S. to Cape Cod. 



192. GYMNACANTHUS Swainson. (yvjivos, naked ; 

 a<av6a, spine.) 



420. G. tricuspis (Reinhardt). Eye very large; skin mostly 

 smooth ; preopercular spine broad, shorter than eye, with 3 

 points ; V. very long. Dark brown with darker bars ; axils dusky 

 in $ with round white spots. Head 3^; depth 4f. D. XII- 16. 

 A. 18. V. I, 3. L. 12. Arctic, S. to Me. (£«.) (Lat., tris, 

 three ; cuspis, cusp.) 



Family LXXIV. AGONID^. (The Alligator-fishes.) 



Fishes allied to the Cotiidce and similar in general structure, but 

 with the body completely covered by a coat of mail composed of 

 about eight series of large bony plates ; head entirely bony exter- , 

 nally ; suborbital stay covering the cheek ; gills 3-|, no slit behind 

 the last, pseudobranchisa large. Vertebrse (as in other Arctic 

 fishes) numerous, 35 to 40. Spinous dorsal sometimes wanting. 

 Small fishes, chiefly of the Arctic seas; genera 10, species about 

 20. (a, privative ; yoivla, joint; i. e., rigid.) 



a. Spinous dorsal obsolete ; gill membranes free from isthmus. {AspidopJio- 

 roidince.) 



b. Bony plates keeled, without spines; fins very small; teeth on vomer. 



ASPIDOPHOEOIDES, 193. 



193. ASPIDOPHOROIDES Lacdpfede. (derm's, shield ; <popia>, 



to bear ; elSos, form.) 

 a. Snout with two large diverging spines above ; no other spines present. 



421. A. monopterygius (Bloch). Body elongate, subterete, re- 

 sembling that of a pipe-fish ; eyes very large. Brownish, obscurely 

 banded. Head 5f; depth 9. D. 5. A. 6. Lat. 1. 50. L. 6. Cape 

 Cod, N. (fidi/or, single ; irrepv^, fin.) 



Family LXXV. CBPHALACANTHID^. 

 (The Flying Gurnards.) 



Body elongate, with bony keeled scales ; head blunt, cuboid, its 

 surface almost entirely bony ; nuchal shield with a strong spine on 



