3 976 Bullcti)i //, Ibiitcd States National Muscudi. 



AeanthocoUus ocellatus, H. R. Stoeeb, Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist.1850, 253 ; male. 

 Cotlus glacialis, RirHARDSoN, in Belcher, Last Arctic Yoyago H. M. S. Assistance, 1853, 

 App. 3, pi. 24, Northumberland Sound. (Coll. Sir Edward Belcher.) 



2350. MYOXOtEPHALl S OCTODEIIMSPIXOSIS (Mitcliill). 



(LONG-SPINED .SCULPl.N'.) 



Head 2i ; depth 5^. D. IX, 15 ; A. 14 ; V.I, 3. Body very slender, taper- 

 ing backward to tlie long and slender caudal peduncle. Head long and 

 narrow ; mouth moderate, the lower j aw included ; maxillary not extending 

 past eye, 2J in head. Upper preopercular spine extremely long, longer 

 than in any other species of the genus, 3J in head ; longer than eye, extend- 

 ing to or beyond tip of opercular spine, its length more than 4 times that 

 of the short spine lielow it; third spine turned downward: nasal spines 

 strong; a strong spine at upper posterior margin of orbit directed upward 

 and backward; occipital ridges long, low, converging behind, each ending 

 in a similar spine, sharp and directed backward; a single sharp supra- 

 scapular spine; a sharp spine on shoulder girdle at tip of the sharp 

 opercular spine ; the usual downward-directed spines on preopercle and 

 sultoperele. Vertex nearly Hat, bounded by low ridges. No eirri on head ; 

 skin of head smooth. Eye very large, as long as snout, ii in head, mnch 

 wider than the concave interorbital space. Skin without rough tubercles ; 

 lateral line with a series of partly concealed cartilaginous plates. Dorsal 

 lins well separated; spinous dorsal higher than soft dorsal, the spines 

 strong, the longest nearly I head ; pectorals reaching anal ; veutrals not 

 to vent ; no trace of slit behind last gill. Olivaceous, with 4 obscure trans- 

 verse dark bars, paler below; fins barred and mottled; jaws unspotted; 

 lower side of head plain white; belly white. Length about a foot. Atlan- 

 tic coast, from Labrador south to Virginia, common about Cape Cod; a 

 strongly marked species, easily known by its long spine and by the sharj) 

 spine at the occiput, there being 18, really 20, distinct spines about the 

 head. (oe/otZmm, eighteen; .tpinosvs, spined.) 



Scorpius OTC(7imaJiMS, "WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pise, App., 25, pi. 10, fig. 15 (nonbinoniial) . 



Gottitsoctodecimspinosus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 380, New York ; 

 GiJNTHER, Cat., n, 163. 



Gottus virginiamis, Storer, Kept. Fish. Mass., 18, 1838, coast of eastern Massachusetts ; 

 De Kay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 51, pi. 5, fig. 13, 1842; Jordan & Gh.bert, Synop- 

 sis, 701, 1883 ; GiRARD, Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist., ni, 187. 



Acanthocottus virginianus, Stokek, Hist. Fish. Mass., 28, pi. 4, flg. 2, 18G7. 



Subgenus MYOXOCEPHALUS. 



2361. MYOXOCEPHALUS POLYAOAXTHOCEPHALUS, Pallas. 



(Great Sculpin; Kaloo.) 



Head 2i; depth 4^. D. IX or X, 13 to 16; A. 11 to 13. Body rather 

 elongate. Head long and narrow, somewhat compressed, concave between 

 the orbits, the orbital rim being elevated; lower jaw included; nasal 

 spines strong; a strong ridge above eye, with a blunt, comi^ressed spine 

 behind it; behind this a small digitate cluster of ridges ending in low 



