1984 Bullethi ^7, United States National Miisciun. 



pores, 1 on each side of front of eye; numerous pores on head; 2 rows of 

 pores, 1 above and 1 below, the raised ridge running laterally on dorsal 

 half of body. General color dark reddish brown, mottled, barred, and 

 spotted with white; under parts whitish; a wide whitish bar from oper- 

 cles across nape; posterior part of interorbital space whitish; the dark 

 color on front of snout and under lower jaw relieved by bars and mottlings 

 of whitish; pectorals and ventrals barred; rays of caudal finely mottled; 

 several (5) small white spots on body immediately behind i)e(toral origin, 

 and several larger white blotches on lower posterior half of body. Bering 

 Sea. A single example, 2 inches long. It is allied to M, stellcri, from 

 which it difters greatly in form and coloration. (Type, No. 33863, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Collected at Medni (Copper) Island, Bering Sea, spring of 1883, 

 by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger.) (B. A. Beau.) {3Iedni, the Eussian name, 

 meaning Copper, of the island where the species was found.) 



Myoxocephalus mednius, B. A. Bean MS., in Jordan & Gilbert, Kept. Fur Seal Investiga- 

 tions, 1898, Medni Island. (Type, No. 33863. Coll. L. Stejueger.) 



2357. MYOXOCEPHALUS XITOSUS ^ (Herzenstein). 



Head 2^ ; depth il. D. IX, 15 ; A. 13 ; P. 17 ; lateral line 33 to 35. Head 

 comparatively deep and compressed, with large mouth, narrow, deeply 

 concave interorbital space, and depressed concave occiput, which is 

 bounded by strong lateral crests; at the anterior end of these crests they 

 are each accompanied on the outer side by a short ridge, and on the inner 

 side by a still shorter ridge or a small tubercle. The occipital crests con- 

 verge strongly toward the nape; temporal ridges also strong; a short fila- 

 ment above posterior edge of orbit and 1 at posterior end of occipital 

 crest, each surmounting a very low tubercle. Upper preopercular spine 

 straight, directed toward opercular flap, scarcely reaching middle of oper- 

 cle, its length f diameter of orbit; the second spine is f length of upper, 

 directed downward and backward; the third points downward and for- 

 ward, the long interval between it and the second being smooth, without 

 spine or tubercle. The contiguous angles of sub- and iuter-oiDcrcles are 



" Allied to M. nivosui is the following species from the Okhotsk Sea: 



Myoxocephalus brandti (Steindachner). 



Head2f; depth 5. D. IX, 13; A. 11; P. 17. Head narrowed forward, the lower jaw 

 included. Eye 6 in head, a little larger than snout; interorl)ital ^^p;^(■e strongly concave, 

 IJ iu eye. A rather long tentacle above eye posteriorly: bcliiud this a ridge, low and 

 rather sharp, converging with its fellow, and Inclosing a (hj pressed quadrangular area; 

 no spine at its posterior end; nasal spines prominent; preoperele with 3 spines, the upper 

 shorter than eye, the second not h its length, the third short, blunt, and turned down- 

 ward ; opercular spine blunt, concealed ; suprascapula with a single long spine. Top of 

 head covered with small rounded warts. Lateral line with thin bony concealed plates, its 

 pores sending numerous siiiii)le branches ;ibove and below; below the lateral line 2 rows 

 of small cross plates, tube-like, aiipnreutly connected with the system of tubes of the lat- 

 eral line; no rounded bony plntes or scales. Longest dorsal spine 3 in head; pectoral 

 moderate, a little more than f, head; ventral 2J in head. Head bluish violet above; sides 

 of body reddish yellow; violet marblings on the lower lip and on the sides of the lower 

 .law, leaving the ground color to form'ocellated spots; fins violet with yellow spots, the 

 ventrals uniform yellowi.sh. Known from 1 specimen 13 incites long from the mouth of 

 the Amur Kiver. (Steindachner.) (Probably named for the natural history collector, 

 Brandt.) 



Oottus hrandti. Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen,v, 6, Taf. 3, ligs.l, 2, 1867, mouth of the Amur 

 River. (Type, in Vienna Mus.) 



