107. COTTID/E COTTUS. 
703 
Snbsp. fjB’4Ecala,Dsdi«;MS (Cuv. & Val.) Bean.— Dac7(?_y Sculj)in. 
Dark browu above, ^vitb broad darker bars; below yellowisli, the 
belly in the male with large pale spots; back and top of head with 
grayish blotches; tins brown and yellow, all of them spotted and 
barred. Head large. ]Month large; maxillary reaching posterior edge 
of orbit, in head; the supraorbital and occipital spines tnbercle-like; 
a small tnbercnlar spine on trout of occipital ridge; ni)per ])reo])ercuhir 
si)ine reaching middle of opercular spine, its length equal to eye, not 
twice that of the spine below it; nasal spines sharp. Sides of body 
above lateral line with a series of imbedded prickly plates, below 
which are nnmerons scattered spines and prickles. Dorsal and anal 
tins high; spinous and soft dorsals about equal iu height, their height 
more than one-seventh of length of body; ventrals long; i)ectorals 
about reaching vent. Eye large, equal to least interorbital width (in 
specimens a foot long). Head 2i; depth 4^. D. X-17; A. 14; Y. I, 3; 
P. 18. L. 25 inches. Xew York to Greenland, common; one of the 
largest sculpins. 
(Cotfus grocnlandicus Cuv. & Val. iv, 1.56: Acauthocoffus roi-iahilis Girard, Best. .Jonrn. 
Nat. Hist, vi, 248: Coilun (jroe.nlandicus Giinther, ii, 161; Goode & Beau, Bull. E.ssex 
In.sl. xi, 13, 1879: Acantliocottus variabilis Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 26; Hay, Fi.sh. Gt. 
Brit. 1880, 51: ? Coitus porosus C. & V. viii, 498: Acanthocottus mucosas Ayres, Proc. Cal. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. 1854, 12.) 
1076. C. polyacaBatHsocepSaaleas Pallas. 
Dark olive above, much variegated with darker and reddish; belly 
mostly whitish ; sides and belly (in males) with numerous blackish reticu- 
lations surrounding large round white spots; jaws dusky, mottled with 
whitish; tnembrane joining maxillary to preorbital black, with round 
white s])ots; fins, all but the ventrals, mottled and barred with blackish 
and yellowish. Body rather elongate. Head long and narrow, sonje- 
what compressed, concave between the orbits, the orbital rim being 
elevated; nasal si)ines strong; a strong ridge above eye, with a blunt 
compressed spine behind it; behind this a small digitate cluster of 
ridges ending in low spines; behind these an irregular broken ridge 
on each side of the vertex, extending to the occiput; outside of this 
another ragged ridge; suborbital stay strong, striate; npper preopercu- 
lar spine long, straight, simple, striate at base, longer than eye; a 
similar but shorter spine below it, not half as long, and the nsual 
downward directed spine at lower edge of preopercle and sid)opercle; 
oj)ercular sjjiue moderate. IMouth rather large, the maxillary reaching 
beyond eye, half length of head; skin of top of head covered with 
small smooth warts; skin of body with some scattered rough tuber- 
