THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 



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These characters are probably sexual or are explained by the large Bize of this specimen. 

 The collection contains also no. 2394 and 137, 8.5 and 7.5 inches long, collected at Petropaulski, 

 1900; no. 2404, a specimen 9.5 inches long, no locality, probably off Kamchatka. 



Fig. 74.— Megalocottiu laticeps (Gilbert). 

 139. Meg-alocottus laticeps (Gilbert). 



Described originally (Gilbert ls!l5i from Nushagak River and Ilercndeen Bay. Recorded (a; 

 Cottus txniopterus) by Bean 1882) from Point Belcher, Arctic Ocean; Hagmeister Island, Bering 3 

 and St. Michael. Turner (1886), Norton Sound, and Scofield (1899), Port Clarence. No specimens 

 obtained by us. 



Fig. 75. -Zestleelus profundorum (Gilbcrl ), 



140. Zesticelus profundorum > ( .ill »', t 



Originally described by Gilbert L895 as Acanthocottus profundorum from station 3329, north of 

 Unalaska. 



