Pareioplitae, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 443 



inhabitant of Bering Sea, is much valued by the Aleuts as a 

 food-fish, although the flesh is rather tough and without much 



FIG. 383. Irish Lord, Hemilepidotus jordani Bean. Unalaska. 



flavor. Almost equally common in Bering Sea is the red scul- 

 pin, Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus, and the still rougher Cera- 



FIG. 384. Triglops pingeli Kroyer. Chebucto, Canada. 



tocottus diceraiis. The stone-sculpin, or buffalo-sculpin, Enophrys 

 bison, with bony plates on the side and rough horns on the preo- 



FIG. 3>5. Buffalo Sculpin, Enophrys bison (Girard). Puget Sound. 



percle, is found about Puget Sound and southward. In all 

 these large rough species from the North Pacific the preopercle 



