10?(). COTTIDJE COTTUXCULUS. 687 



flatfish above; snout obtuse, rounded ; iuteroculaf space very broad, 

 concave, the ocular ridges obsolete; lower jaw projecting; maxillary 

 entirely aduate to the skin of the preorbital; jaws with bands of villi- 

 form teeth; no teeth on voiner or palatines; no spines or cirri about 

 the head; suborbital stay narrow, not reaching preopercle. Gill-mem- 

 branes united to the isthmus; gills 3, no slit behind the fourth. 

 Branchiostegals 7. Fins connected ; spinous dorsal of short, slender, 

 flexible spines, imbedded in the skin and scarcely visible; soft dorsal 

 short, the rays close together; anal low; caudal separate; pectoral fins 

 long, with a broad, procnrrent base. Veutrals rather long, I, 3, close 

 together, distinct, the base adnate to the body. Small fishes, closely 

 resembling Liparididce, from which group they are distinguished by 

 no character of much importance. (yuzpoXouT-qc;, one who bathes in cold 

 water.) 



1O43. P. paradosias Gthr. 



Dusky, pale below; sides of head with round pale spots (mucous 

 pores) ; top of head with dark obscure streaks. Body almost fusiform, 

 tapering from the shoulders to the very slender tail. Head very large, 

 depressed, its bones thin; interocular space two-fifths length of head. 

 Mouth large, the maxillary extending to below posterior margin of eye; 

 premaxillary on the level of pupil; two blunt tubercles behind eye; no 

 spines about head; processes of premaxillary very prominent; isthmus 

 broad. Dorsal long, the spines separated by an em argi nation from the 

 soft rays, the spines very slender, weak and wide apart, enveloped in 

 thick skin; soft rays close together, much higher than the spines; 

 caudal short, rounded; anal fin similar to soft dorsal, but lower; ven- 

 trals about half as long as the pectorals, their rays about I, 3. Head 

 2f; depth 4. D. VIII-9; A. 0; C. 12; B. 7. North Pacific; this 

 description taken from a specimen examined by us from Kodiak; the 

 original type from the Gulf of Georgia. 



(Giinther, iii, 516.) 



364. COTTUNCULUS Collett. 

 (Collett, Norges Fiske, 1875, 20: type Cottunculus microps Collett.) 



Tadpole-shaped, the head extremely large, the body tapering rapidly 

 from the shoulders to the slender tail; mouth rather large, terminal, 

 oblique, the jaws about eqiial; villiform teeth in the jaws; a double 

 patch on vomer; no teeth on the palatines; no spines on the head, tho 

 tubercular surface of the skull covered by skin ; skull thin, its bones 



