448 Pareioplitae, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 



remaining genera Gymnocanthus (tricuspis, etc.) has no vomer- 

 ine teeth. Leptocottus (armatus) and Clinocottus (analis) abound 

 on the coast of California, and Pseudoblennius (percoides) is 



FIG. 395. Blcpsias cirrhosus Pallas. Straits of Fuca. 



found everywhere along the shores of Japan. VelUtor centro- 

 pomus of Japan is remarkable among sculpins for its compressed 

 body and long snout. Dialarchus snyderi of the California rock- 



FIG. 396. Sea raven, Hemitripterus americanus (Gmelin). Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



pools is perhaps the smallest species of sculpin, Blepsias (cir- 

 rhosus), Nautichthys (oculofasciatus), and Hemitripterus (ameri- 

 canus), the sea-raven, among the most fantastic. In the last- 

 named genus the spinous dorsal is many-rayed, as in Scorpa- 

 nid&, a fact which has led to its separation by Dr. Gill as a dis- 



