1960 Diilktin ^y, United States National Museum. 



iug front of anal or past ; dorsals not connected, the Mgliest spine about f , 

 the highest soft dorsal \\, in head; ventrals reaching to vent. Color 

 light gray, covered -with many spots forming reticulations on sides and 

 top of head ; ventrals white, other tins covered by wavy, dark bars ; dorsal 

 entirely dusky, with a narrow white edge; belly and lower parts white. 

 Fraser River Basin. Here described from one of the type specimens, 3 

 inches in length ; collected at Field, British Columbia, in Kicking Horse 

 River, by Dr. Eigenmann. This has been compared with many specimens 

 of Coitus heldhif/ii from localities in Washington and Idaho and from Lake 

 Tahoe. All of these are less slender than the types, the depth being 4| to 

 5 inches in length, but they do not difiter otherwise, and later investiga- 

 tions will probably show the entire identity of Cottua philonips with Cottiis 

 heldingii. 



This name {Cottus philonips) was proposed as a substitute for Cottus 

 minutus, Pallas, supposed to be preoccupied, and Cottus microsiomus (Lock- 

 ington), not of Heckel; but the original description was taken from a 

 specimen from Kicking Horse River. The first mentioned is perfectly 

 available, but was applied to a specimen from the island of Talek, near 

 Tauisk, in the Okhotsk Sea. It is very doubtful, therefore, whether Cottus 

 minutus should be used for any American species in advance of comparison 

 with the Siberian form. From the Aleutian Islaud species (C. microsiomus 

 Lockington, C. aleuticus Gilbert), C. pMlonips differs in many important 

 respects, and is undoubtedly distinct. Thus the Alaskan form has the 

 liosterior nostrils in short, but conspicuous tubes, the preoibital produced 

 into a lobe which conceals all of the maxilary except the extreme tip, and 

 the dorsal fin with 8 or 9 spines and 18 to 20 soft rays. {iliiXEoo, to love; 

 viip, snow, vinroo, to wash.) 



GotttiS philonips * Eigenmann & Eigenjiann, Amer. Nat., xxvi, 963, 1892, Kicking Horse 

 River, Field, British Columbia; Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 

 1894, 118; Gilbert & Evekmann, Bull. U. S. Fisli Comm. 1894, 204, iu part, includes 

 Cottus beldingii. 



2332. COTTUS ANlViE, Jordan & Starks. 



Head 3^ to 3| ; depth 5. D. VII or VIII, 17 or 18 ; A. 12 ; eye 5 in head ; 

 maxillary 3| ; highest dorsal 3^ ; highest soft ray 2 ; pectoral 1 ; ventral 

 li; caudal IJ. Body elongate, not much compressed; caudal peduncle 

 wide, wider than length of snout. Head small, broadly rounded anteriorly 

 as viewed from above, snout blunt as viewed from the side; mouth very 

 small, without so much lateral cleft as Coitus philonips; the maxillary 

 reaching to front of pupil; teeth in moderately wide bands on jaws and 

 vomer, palatines toothless, or with a few teeth in a narrow band on front; 

 interorbital (bone only) equals I eye; eye smaller than length of snout; 

 preopercle with only 1 small blunt spine, below which the edge is entire. 



* This species is thus descrihed hy Eigenmann & Eigenmann : Head about 3J to 4. D. 

 VIII or IX, 10 to 18; A. II, 13; V. f, 4. Pectoral reaching anal or past vent even in larg- 

 est specimens. Anal equidistant from tip of snout and base of caudal or nearer tip of 

 snout. Ashy gray with blackish blotches. No well-deflned cross bars excepting some- 

 times near the tail. Frequently a dusky blotch on anterior part of spinous dorsal and 

 another nejir its posterior end ; the fin sometimes wholly dusky, margined with white. 

 Pectorals, soft dorsal, and caudal more or less barred. The types taken in the icy waters 

 of the Kicking Horse, at Field, British Columbia, with Gorefjonus coultcri. (Eigenmann.) 



