704 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 



cles. usually nearly smooth. Dorsals not very high; dorsal spines 

 slender; pectorals reaching anal; ventrals moderate, I, 3. A minute 

 ]>ore usually present behind last gill. Lateral line complete. Head 

 L",: depth I 1 ,. D. X-I, 13; A. 11. L. 24 inches. Puget Sound to 

 Alaska; very abundant; one of the largest seulpins. 

 (Pallas, /,,.)-!. Ross.-Asiat. 1811, iii, 133; Guntber, ii, 1GG.) 



1O77. C. labradoricus (Orel.) Gthr. 



Nasal spines small; a rough prominence above orbit, and two similar 

 ones on occiput; a slight depression on crown; four preopercular spines, 

 the upper about f length of eye, equal to interorbital width; eye as 

 long as snout, 5 in head, half length of maxillary, which extends to the 

 \i-rtical from its hinder margin. Dorsal spines slender, the longest | 

 length of maxillary; pectorals reaching u little beyond anal; ventrals 

 not to vent; skin above lateral line with a lew spinous tubercles; a 

 s'nall slit behind fourth gill. D. X-14; A. 14; V. I, 3; P. 17; C, 11; 

 ]'>. (. (Ih'dii.) Labrador and Hudson's P>ay. 



(Acanthocottua Inhrcdoricnn Grd. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, vi, 18CO, 247, pi. ; Giiutker, ii, 

 !(>:{; Bran, 1'ior, U. S. Nat. Mus. iv, 16H1, 128.) 



1O7. C. ia235opt!erMs* Kner. 



Color of C. grcenldndicitNi but darker, with dark bars; gill-membranes 

 and hinder part of belly dark; dark regions, with very bright white 

 specks of different sizes; first dorsal partly black, partly transparent; 

 second dorsal crossed by 3 oblique dark bands; anal by 1, in contrary 

 directions; caudal with .'5 dark bars; pectoral with 4 or ."> dark bars, 

 much narrower than the interspaces; ventrals with black and white 

 spots. Lower jaw projecting. Eye 5 in head, as long as snout ; supra- 

 ocular ridge slightly elevated, continued backward as a low bony ridjje, 

 without spines; a quadrangular depression between these ridges; crown 

 and occiput with naked warty skin; preopercle with 4 spines, the up- 

 permost straight, as long as eye; highest dorsal spine half length of 

 head; sol'! dorsal twice as high; pectorals reaching anal; ventrals to 

 vent. Sides often with irregular rough bony tubercles; a moderate slit 

 behind last gill: gill-meiiibr.ines irtlv free from isthmus. D. VIII- 

 l. 1 !; A. 11': Lat. 1. 10. (Knrr.) Alaska to Northern China.. 



(Cot In* In niojili rim Kncr. Sit /.nn^licr. Kais A cad. \Viss. \\'i< n, l~i',-, :;in ; I',. 'an, Proc. 

 T. S. Nat. .Mns. l->],-jl-.) 



flOTO. C'. iBim!r:<-<n:as* I.. 



Olivaceous, soiaeuhat variegated; the tins faintly spotted. Body 



:, -Cill. PI-IK-. Acad. Nat. Sri. I'hila. I-".'. 1.1: typo Coitus (jtuidricornis Gill. 

 ?, lunik: >.6rrof, tJuttus.) 



