695 
107(«). COTTID^ — UKANIDEA. 
and Cascade Mountains; abundant; specimens from tbe Sacramento 
Eiver {xar. jjarvus) smaller in size, paler in color and with the iuteror- 
bital space concave, narrower than eye. 
{Coitus asper Rich. Fauna Bor. -Amer. Fish. 29.'), 1836: TracMclermus richardsoui ; 
Heckel, Ann. Wiener Mas. 1840, 162: CentridermichUnjs asper Giinther, ii, 170: Col- 
iopsis asper Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Snrv. Fish. 51 : Cottopsis 2 )arvus Girard, Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 144: Ccntridermiclithi/s jmrvus Gunther, ii, 170.) 
1056. U. scmiscabra (Cope) J. & G. 
Olivaceous, barred and spotted as in other species; fins mottled; 
spinous dorsal pale at base and tip, with a median broad black band; 
two dark blotches at base of caudal. Form of U. aspera^ but slenderer. 
Skin* of top of head and entire body, except lower part of caudal pe- 
duncle, thickly covered with papillte; those of anterior and upper parts 
of body each tipped with a spine, many of those on head with median 
pores; top of head with a median lengthwise depression. Head nar- 
rowed anteriorly, the maxillary extending to beyond pupil; opercular 
and preopercular spines as in U. aspiefi'a ; lateral line not complete; 
spinous dorsal low; soft dorsal and anal high; caudal long; pectorals 
about reaching anal; Ventrals rather broad, reaching half way to anal. 
Eye in head. Head 3^; depth 4^. D. VII-IS; ^V. 14; Y. I, 4. L. 4 
inches. Fort Hall, Idaho [Cope). Utah Lake {Jordan). 
{Cottopsis serniscaher Cope, Hayden’.s Survey, Montana, for 1871-72, 476: Cottopsis 
semiscaber Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 459.) 
cc. Skin smooth, or prickly in or behind the axil only. {Poiamocnttusi Gill.) 
1057. II. g:ulosa (Grd. ) J. & G. 
Olivaceous, variously mottled and barred; fins clouded with darker. 
Form rather robust. Mouth moderate, the maxillary reaching to pu]nl ; 
palatine teeth evident. Eyes small, little wider than the interorbital 
space ; preopercular spine short ; spinous dorsal low ; pectoral fins 
about reaching anal; ventrals I, 4, not to vent. Head 3; depth o. D. 
lX-21; A. 15-17 (Washington); D. YIII-20; A. 18 (California). L. 6 
inches. Eiv'ers from California to British Columbia; not rare. Cali- 
fornia examples have the axillary prickles developed as usual in U. rich- 
ardsoni; all of them within the space covered by pectorals when de- 
pressed. Specimens from Vancouver’s Island and about Port Town- 
send have these prickles forming a considerable band, and extending 
* “Skin prickly above the lateral line; smooth below it posteriorly.” {Cope.) 
tGill, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, viii, 40, 1861: type Coitus punctulatus Gill. 
{norapoi, river; Korro?, sculjiin.) 
