Jordan and Evermann— Fishes of North America. 



1983 



by Steller to the speckled color of a frog. Western shore of Bering Sea 

 an.l Okhotsk Sea; not recorded from Alaska or the Aleutian Islands. 

 This description from 11 specimens from Petropaulski and Bering Island 

 taken by the Alhatros,. This species is now recorded from Bering and 

 Me.lni islands, Petropaulski, and the mouth of the Amur River. It is 

 evidently abundant in western Bering Sea, but probably does not occur 

 among the Aleutian Islands or on the Alaskan coast. There seems to be 

 no doubt that this species is correctly identified with Mxjoxooei^haU^ 

 stelleri, with which it agrees in fin rays and in the peculiar and charac- 

 teristic coloration. It agrees also with the description of Cottus decas- 

 trensis, from which the figure, however, diverges in several important 

 details It is hiohly improbable that Cottns mcrtensii and Cottus mar- 

 momtu's can ever be satisfactorily identified, as we have only very brief 

 accounts of them, based on colored drawings. (Named for Georg Wilhelm 

 Steller.) 



Myoxocepnalus stelleri, T.lesius, Mem. Acad. Petersb., iv, 1811, 273 with plate not reterred 

 to intent, Petropaulski (Coll. G. W. Steller) ; Jokdan & Gilbert, Kept. Invest. Fur 



Seal Islands, 1898. , ,<„: « . <■ o « .. i i« 



Cottus decastrens-ls, Knee, Denk. Kais. Akad. Wissen., xxiv, 1885, 2, taf. 2, figs. 1, la, 



Decastris Bay, near mouth of the Amur. 

 ? Cottus marmoratus.* Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 497,1831, Petro- 



paulski ; on a drawing by Mertens. ,.,,„., 



CoL platycepkalu., Bean & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. M«s. 1896 240, 384 ; not of Pa-- 

 Cottus niger, Bean & Bean, Proc. U. S- Nat. Mus. 1896, 240, 384 (in part : Nos. 33899, 33872, 



33833, 33850, 33908, 33844, and 33879) ; not of Bean. 



235G. MYOXOCEPHALUS MEDMUS, B. A. Bean, new species. 

 HeadSi; depth 4i; eye 4 in head. D. VIII, 17; A. 12; V. I, 3; P. 14; 

 C 14 Profile of head and body gradually ascending from tip of snout to 

 sixth dorsal spine, thence tapering to caudal peduncle ; ventral line almost 

 straight, slightly tapering to caudal peduncle ; longest dorsal spine almost 

 as lono- as longest ray, 3 in head including flap. Month moderate, max- 

 illary reaching about to vertical through middle of eye. Pectorals large, 

 reachin- slightly beyond anal origin, the middle rays being | as long as 

 the head; ventrals moderately well developed, reaching anal; anal origin 

 under third ray of dorsal, ending under fourteenth ray of that fin. Gill 

 membranes united, forming a fold across the isthmus. Preocular spines 

 moderate; opercular spines but moderately developed ; 2 flattish tubular 



:Ts''L'^TTTu^r''Zf^jLae esp^ce, observ6e dans ces Parages pax- les 

 natvfraUs'es te iVmLe Expedition, ne parait pas^on Pl'Vrf.f S\"mrvaut lef^l 

 que nous avons decrites. Ce petit chaboisseau a deux fo tea epiiies :Ji^^f ;'^^>^\"^'^/v,*; 

 Ueux autres pen alongees au bord rt" Pr/opero"!^; Zf onercule t.rrarons^in^ de 

 horizontal du meme os, et une assez torte k 1 angle de 1 opercuie. |^f^ '''J',,"" f ^^ .j j^ 

 la premiere dorsale sont assez robustes; le ""Vueme est le plus /^'^fl^^^^P^^t,^^ 

 tete et le dos bruns, de grandes marbrures brunes «* ^^^^"^''X t^che br une qui part de la 

 sur le ventre. La premiere dorsale est jaune, avec line gi'^^^^e ^'^''iJ? 7'j°®' ^/-^e La 



Nous ne connaissons aussi cette espfece que par un dessin lon^, ae quanc y 

 munique par M. de Mertens." (Valenciennes.) 



