107. COTTID/E - COTTUS. 703 



Subsp. g-B-cesaaaBsdaCMS (Cuv. & Val.) Beau. Daddy 



Daik browu above, with broad darker bars; below yellowish, the 

 belly in the male with large pale spots; back and top of head with 

 grayish blotches; (ins brown and yellow, all of them spotted and 

 barred. Head large. Mouth large ; maxillary reaching posterior edge 

 of orbit, 2-J in head; the supraorbital and occipital spines tubercle-like; 

 a small tubercular spine on front of occipital ridge; upper preopercular 

 spine reaching middle of opercular spine, its length equal to eye, not 

 t \vice that of the spine below it; nasal spines sharp. Sides of body 

 above lateral line with a series of imbedded prickly plates, below 

 which are numerous scattered spines and prickles. Dorsal and anal 

 flus high; spiuous and soft dorsals about equal in height, their height 

 more than one-seventh of length of body; ventrals long; pectorals 

 about reaching vent. Eye large, equal to least interorbital width (in 

 specimens a foot long). Head 2; depth 4. D. X-17; A. 14; V. I, 3; 

 P. 18. L. 25 inches. New York to Greenland, common; one of the 

 largest sculpins. 



(Cottus grcenlandicus Cuv. &Val.iv, 156: AcantJiocottiis rariaMlis Girard, Bost. Jonrn. 

 Nat. Hist, vi, 248: Cotl.ua grcenlandicus Gunther, ii, 161; Goode & Beau, Bull. Essex 

 Inst. xi, 13, 1879: Acantliocottus variabiUs Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 26; Day, Fish. Gt. 

 Brit. 1880, 51 : ? Cottus porosus C. & V. viii, 498: Acantliocottus mucosus Ayres, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. 1854, 12.) 



1O76. C. polyacaBitliocepBaaDiBS Pallas. 



Dark olive above, much variegated with darker and reddish; belly 

 mostly whitish; sides and belly (in males) with numerous blackish reticu- 

 lations surrounding large round white spots; jaws dusky, mottled with 

 whitish ; membrane joining maxillary to preorbital black, with round 

 white spots; fins, all but the ventrals, mottled and barred with blackish 

 and yellowish. Body rather elongate. Head long and narrow, some- 

 what compressed, concave between the orbits, the orbital rim being 

 elevated; nasal spines strong; a strong ridge above eye, with a blunt 

 compressed spine behind it; behind this a small digitate cluster of 

 ridges ending in low spines; behind these an irregular broken ridge 

 on each side of the vertex, extending to the occiput; outside of this 

 another ragged ridge ; suborbital stay strong, striate ; upper preopercu- 

 lar spine long, straight, simple, striate at base, longer than eye; a 

 similar bnt shorter spine below it, not half as long, and the usual 

 downward-directed spine at lower edge of preopercle and subopercle; 

 opercular spine moderate. Mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching 

 beyond eye, half length of head; skin of top of head covered with 

 small smooth warts; skin of body with some scattered rough tuber- 



