312 



BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



General color in alcohol: Above brownish olivaceous, irregularly blotched and speckled with black, 

 especially above the pectoral, belly white; head conspicuously speckled with black dots, especially 

 on cheeks and interorbital; occipvit dark, upper lip blackish, edge of lower lip black; pectoral irregu- 

 larly mottled with black, the black spots tending to arrange themselves in crossbands; dorsals faintly 

 mottled with dusky; caudal with 2 irregular faint cloudy bars; ventral with 3 black blotches, the ante- 

 rior somewhat more distinct, these blotches tending to form 3 faint bars; ventrals pale; peritoneum 

 silvery. 



Another specimen, 15 inches long, from Albatross station 3250, Bering Sea. June 13, 1890. had the 

 under part of the pectoral rays covered with sharp tubercles. 



No. 2408. a specimen 9 inches long, collected in Unalaska, July 2. 1900, while agreeing in general 

 appearance with typical junk, differs in having the supraoccipital tubercle elongated into a rather long, 

 sharp ridge more or less rough on the edges and inclined to be broken up intoa series of tubercles. This 

 tubercle is apparently quite variable, as in another specimen the left tubercle is preceded by a smaller 

 one. 



Previously recorded by Bean (1882), as Coitus humilis, from Chamisso Island. Eschscholtz Hay. ( J-il- 

 bert ( 1895 1 . St. Michael and Point Belcher. Arctic Ocean. Townsend (1S87). Nushagak River; stations 

 3290. 3228 to 3230, 3233, 3244 to 3245. 3248 and 3250. all in Bristol Bay: Cape Prince of Wales. Nelson 

 (1887), as Cottus txniopterus, St. Michael. Nelson (1887), as Cottus humilis, St. Michael. Turner ( 1886), 

 as C. humilis, St. Michael. Scofield (1899i, Port Clarence and Grantley Harbor. 



This species reaches a length of IS inches and occurs in shallow water everywhere about Bering 

 Sea, extending into the Arctic and south to the Amur River and Unalaska. 



Fig. 69. — Myoxocephalus verrucosus (Bean). 

 134. Myoxocephalus verrucosus I Bean I. 



One example, 15 inches long, seined at Litnik Bay August 3, and another of same size collected by 

 Luttrell at Sitka. This species was previously recorded from Unalaska and Bristol Bay (Gilbert 1893), 

 and Kings Island. Port Clarence, and Grantley Harbor (Scofield 1896). One specimen from Litnik 

 Bay has the following characters: 



Head 2.33 in length; depth 4.16; eye 6.4 in head; snout 3.5; maxillary 2.20; mandible 2.16; 

 interorbital 1.1 in eye: dorsal x-16; anal 13; pectoral 18; branchiostegals 6. 



Body stout, tapering to stout caudal peduncle; both dorsal and ventral contours nearly straight: 

 head large, flattened above, but not so manifestly depressed and widened as in many cottoids; mouth 

 horizontal, rather large, the maxillary extending to posterior margin of pupil; mouth cavity large, 

 somewhat dusky; armature of head poorly developed, the spines < nasals, postoculars, occipital and 

 preopercular) short and blunt; short nasal tubes developed; top of head very warty; no filaments any- 

 where; supraorbital and occipital filaments hot present; dorsals not closely connected. 



General color darker than in description; the large white spots on belly are also found on pectoral 

 and ventrals; the anal has white bars instead of spots: on the under side of some of the pectoral rays 

 is a series of stiff tubercles, these also found on upper side of ventrals. 



