698 COXTRIBUTIOXS TO NORTH xVMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY — IV. 
its rays all simple. Utah and Western Colorado, abundant; not evi- 
dently different from the preceding. 
{Uraiiidea wheeleri Cope, Proc. Auier. Phil. Soc. Pliila. 1874, 138: Uranidca vhevhri 
Cope &. Yarrow, Zocil. Wheeler’s Expl. W. 100th Mer. v, (396.) 
aa. Palatine teeth obsolete. (Uranidca.) 
c. Ventral rays I, 4. 
1063. U. colfBiata (Rich.) J. &, G. 
Apparently sindlar to the European Umnidea gohio, and distin- 
guished from most of the American species by having the ventral rays 
l, 4. Skin smooth; pectorals as long as head; preopercular spine small 
curved tipwards. I). YIII-IS; A. 14. Great Bear Lake (Bichardsou); 
perhaps the same as the next. 
(Cottas cog natus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. iii, 1836,40: Cottas cognatus Girard, 
1. c. 41, and Gunther, ii, 157.) 
1063. IT. laisBiola (Pallas) J. & G. 
Olivaceous, finely variegated and speckled; fins above speckled. 
Body long and low, little compressed. Head rather small, wider than 
deep. Mouth short, comparatively small, the maxillary extending little 
beyond front of orbit; mandible included; iireopercular sjiine sharp, 
straight. First dorsal low, the spines nearly even; pectorals reaching 
about to vent; ventrals not to vent; skin entirely smooth. Head 4; 
depth 44. D. VlII-19; A. 14; V. I, 4; Lat. 1. 30. L. 5 inches. Aleu- 
tian Islands. Perhaps a variety of the European U. gobio. 
(Cottas minafus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso. -Asiat. iii, 145,1811-1831: Uranidea microstoma 
Lockington, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 58: not Cottas microstomas Heckel.) 
cc \"entral rays I, 3. 
d. Anal rays 14 or 15. 
1064. U. iBiiirgiiiata Bean. 
Olivaceous, blotched, the fins punctulate; first dorsal dark, with a 
distinct pale margin. Body stoutish. Head broad, slightly depressed; 
maxillary reaching to anterior third of orbit; i)reo])ercular spine short, 
bluntish; below this one or two smaller ones; vent nearer base of 
caudal than snout. Head 3; pectoral 4 in length; ventrals 6. I). VII 
or VIII-IS or 19; A. 15; V. I, 3. Walla Walla, Washington. (Bean.) 
( Bean, Proc. IJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 23.) 
1065. U. v4scosa (Hald.) Jor. 
Olivaceous, variegated, the spinous dorsal edged with orange in life; 
fins mostly barred. Body rather stout; mucous pores on head nnusu- 
<ally nnmerous. Mouth small; maxillary reaching middle of eye; pre- 
