107. COTTID^ BLEPSIAS. 
719 
row, grooved, about half width of eye; preopercular spine with a single 
point turned upwards; toi) of head with two series of cirri; none on 
sides of head, except a few on upper part of opercle ; a series of cirri 
along anterior half of lateral line; skin without scales or prickles; pec- 
torals reaching beyond front of anal. Head 3|; depth D. IX-IG; 
A. 11; V. I, 3. Northern specimens are larger in size, with jialer and 
more variegated coloration and red markings; the dorsal has one or 
two more rays, the preopercular spine is stronger and slightly hooked 
upwards, and the opercle has many more cirri above than in the south- 
ern form. Pacific coast, from Monterey northward to Kodiak; in rock- 
jiools ; rather rare. 
(Girard, U. S. Pac. R. E. Surv. Fish. 1858,58: Centridermichthys globiceps Giinther, 
ii, 171.) 
378.— BJLEPSIAS Cuvier. 
(Perojms Bennett: Histiocottus Gill.) 
(Cuvier, Regne Animal, 1829, ed. 2d: type TracMnus cirrTiosus Pallas.) 
Head and body compressed ; skin hispid with stiflQsh villiform 
prickles, sometimes with definitely naked areas ; snout and chin with 
several rather long barbels; mouth small; teeth villiform, on jaws, 
vomer, and palatines; preopercle with two short blunt spines; gill- 
membranes free from the isthmus; gills four, a slit behind the fourth; 
top of head with bony ridges; suborbital stay narrow; first dorsal 
short, elevated in front, the spines slender; second dorsal large; anal 
similar, lower; ventrals very short, I, 3; pectorals long. Pacific coast. 
(An old name of some fish; from to look.) 
a. Spinous dorsal emarginate ; sides with naked areas. 
110<>. B. cirrSiosiBS (Pallas) Giinther. 
Dark olivaceous, sides of back with four to six vertically oblong black 
blotches edged with paler, not reaching nearly to lateral line; belly and 
naked areas on sides whitish; black bands radiating from eyes ; fins 
dark, with large pale blotches and dark spots; caudal with light and 
dark bars ; ventrals plain ; a small white spot on front of spinous dor- 
sal. Supraocular ridges well developed; interorbital space concave, 
with two low ridges extending backwards from nasal spines, diverging 
towards occipital ridges; the latter large, partly interrupted; subor- 
bital stay couspicuous; temporal ridge present; maxillary reaching to 
beyond middle of pupil; snout with five barbels, chin with six, the 
longest about as long as the eye, which is 3§ in head; a small cirrus 
