No.im JAPANESE SCULPINS— JORDAN AND STARKS. 273 



small, smooth w^irts. not biding- the occipital ridofes; no cirri. Mouth 

 lathor laro-e, the maxillary roachino- l)oyond eye. one-lialf long-th of 

 head: skin of l)ody with some scattered, rough tul)ercles, usually 

 nearly smooth. Dorsals not very high; dorsal spines slender; pec- 

 torals reaching anal; ventrals moderate, I, 3. A minute pore usuall\' 

 present heliind last gill, this sometimes wholly wanting. Latei-al line 

 complete. Dark olive above, much variegated with darkei' and 

 reddish; bidly mostlv Avhitish; sides and belly (in males) with numer- 

 ous ])lackish reticulations surrounding large white spots; jaws duskv, 

 mottled with Avhitish; membrane joining maxillary to preorbital ])lack, 

 with round white spots in the adult, more or less plain in the young; 

 tins, all ])ut the ventrals, mottled and })arred wdtli l)lackishan(l yellow- 

 ish. Length li to 2i feet. Alaska to Kamchatka; abundant through- 

 out Bering Sea, and southward along the islands to Puget Sound; one 

 of the largest sculpins and everA'where familiar to tishermen. 

 Recorded from RoblxMi Island, Unalaska, Bristol Bay, Chignik Har- 

 l)or, the Pri])ilof and Commander islands, and at Petropaulski. 

 (ttoXi's. many; cvKayOa, spine; Ke({)aXi}. head.) 



22. MYOXOCEPHALUS JAOK i Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Cbllnn jdok CuviKR and V.alexcienxes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, LS2H, p. 172; 



Kamchatka (Coll. Pallas; specimen in Mus. Berl. called Cottwi arorpius by 



Pallas). — GtJNTHEK, Cat., II, 1860, j). 165. — Jord.vx and Gilbert, Synopsis 



Fish. N. Amer., 1883, p. 705. 

 Myoxoeephaliis jaok Jordax and Gilbert, Rept. Fur Seal Comin. for 1896-97, 



1899, p. 462; PetrojiauLski, Robben Island. — Jord.vx' and Everm.vxx, Fish 



X. and M. Amer., II, 1898, p. 1977.— Schofield, Rei^t. Fur Seal Conuii., Ill, 



1898, p. 499; Port Clarence; Grantley IIarl)()r. 

 CoUun hnmllls Beax, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, p. 149; Chamisso Island, 



Bering Straits (Coll. T. H. Bean); D. X, 16; A. 13. — .Toroax and Gilbert, 



Synopsis Fish. X. Amer., 1883, p. 705; St. ^Nfichael, Eschscholtz Bay, Point 



Belcher. ) 

 Coitus poliiacanthocephalu» Kxer, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 1868, ]>. L'l, 



pi. IV, fig. 11; Decastris Bay; not of Pallas. 

 Cotlnx Iniiinptenis Beax and Beax, Proc. U. S. Xat. ^NIus., 1896, p. 384; not of 



Kner. 



D. VIII to X-15 to IT; A. 13 to la (usually D. IX Ki; A. U). 

 This species has a very slender bod}' and an extremely wide. Hat head, 

 the latter strikingly triangular when view^ed from aliove, on acci)unt 

 of the regidar way in which it tapers toward the snout. The species 

 is further distinguished b}'^ possessing but 1> dorsal s})ines and by tli(> 

 l^resence in the adult of an irregular series of circular spinous ])Iates 

 above the lateral line, these plates wanting in very young individuals. 

 They begin to make their appearance in specimens (> inches long, and 

 are invarial)ly present in larger specimens. In adults. th(> region 

 beh)w the lateral line contains strong si)inous prickles mostly con- 

 cealed in the skin and directed backward. Some of the anterior ones 



