254 mSTOEY OF the fishes or MASbACHUSETTS 



After this memoir on the Fishes of Massachusetts was completed; aware that several 

 species had been de*scribed during its preparation, which I had not incKided in my com- 

 munication; I requested Mr. Frederick W. Putnam, Curator of Ichthyology in the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and also in the Essex Institute, to furnish me with a list of 

 these. He has placed me under great obhgations by sending me the accompanying cat- 

 alogue. 



1. Grystes fasciatus^ K<^. (Black Bass of the Lakes ) 



This species, which is the common lake bass and black bass of the Great Lakes, Lake 

 Champlain, and several lakes in New York, and which also extends far-ther south, has 

 been introduced mto Great Sandy Lake, in Wareham In the Summer of 1862, a speci- 

 men of this fish was caught in Massachusetts Bay, by one of the members of the state 

 legislature, and is now in the state cabinet. The fish had evidently found the salt 

 water not much to its liking, as it was much emaciated, and had changed so in its gen- 

 eral appearance as at first sight hardly to be recognized. 



2. Friacanthus altus^ Gill, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci., 1863, p. 332. 



A specimen of this most beautiful little fish was found alive on Marblehead Beach by 

 Miss Mary Nichols, of Salem, and is now in the Essex Institute, Only three other speci- 

 mens are known of this species. 



3 Bryttics ohesuh, Girakd, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci. Syn. Pomotis ohesus^ Gie., Procd. 

 B. S. N. H 



Girard's specimens were from Framingham. I have found it quite common in several 

 ponds in Essex County, and also in Fresh Pond (Cambridge), and in a pond in Maiden, 

 It is probably a widely distributed species, and may prove to have been described by 

 some of the earlier authors. (See GiU in Procd. Philad. Ac.) 



4. Oryptacanthodes inornatiis^ Gill, Procd. Philad. Ac. Nat. Sci., 1863, p. 332, 

 Have seen a specimen of this pure white Cryptacanthodes taken oif Swampscott. 



5 Gasterosteus Wheatland^ Putn., Procd, E, I, v. p. 4, 1866. 



Specimens of this species were taken at Nahant, on April 15, 1859, by^he late Dr* R. 

 H. Wheatland, The species is very strongly characterized. 



