AGONID^. — LXXIV. 161 



depths. D. VII -18. A. 15. V. I, 3. L. 3. Deep waters of 

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

 of Nat. Hist, of Vermont.) 



191. TRIGLOPS Reinhardt. (rpiyXa, Trigla; af, appearance.) 



419. T. pingeli Reinhardt. Head slender; eye large; tail 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. (yvfiv6s, naked ; 

 axavBa, 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 4J. D. XII- 16. 

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

 three ; cuspis, cusp.) 



Family LXXIV. AGONIDuSJ. (The Alligator-fishes.) 



Fishes allied to the CoUidce 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, pseudobranchiae large. Vertebrae (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 ; yaivia, joint ; i. e., rigid.) 



a. Spinous dorsal obsolete ; gill membranes free from isthmas. (Aspidopho- 

 roidincE.) 



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



ASPIDOPHOKOIDES, 193. 



193. ASPIDOPHOKOIDES Lacepfede. (derm's, shield; ^ope'a, 



to bear ; eiSor, 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 5| ; depth 9. D. 5. A. 6. Lat. 1. 50. L. 6. Gape 

 God, N. (fidvos, single ; itnpv^, fin.) 



Family LXXV. CEPHALACANTHID^. 

 (The Flying Gurnards.) 



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

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



