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as large as e^^e. separated narrowl}^ 1)\^ the lioiit-])rown ground color; 

 many of the spots are run together; lip.s, under part of iuandil)le,chin, 

 and branch iostegals spotted and specked, snowflake-like, with irregu- 

 lar white spots; dorsals and pectorals irregularly and finely mottled; 

 the lower edge of pectoral bordered with white; ventral white, crossed 

 with '1 dark spots, and with alternate irregular bands of white and 

 dark brown; a white spot on lower edge of caudal peduncle; a white 

 bar across base of caudal rays, behind which are two or three wavy 

 dark bands across rays. 



This species somewhat resembles MijoxocephalaH niger of the Pribi- 

 lof Islands, though not closely. The warts on head do not terminate 

 in filaments. The color is very different, resembling more closely J/. 

 stdle/'t\ of Kamchatka, and the patch of vomerine teeth is ver}' much 

 larger. It may be knowni from M. sfeUe7'l{— Chttns decadrenHh Kner), 

 the nearest species, by the flatter interorbital and scarcel}^ developed 

 ridges on head, by the less spotted membrane behind maxillary and 

 preopercle, and especiall}' b}' the white membrane connecting lower 

 lip with maxillar^'. In M. stelleri the dorsal rays are never less than 

 IX-15. 



The above description is of the t^'pe which was taken l)y Jordan 

 and Snyder at Aomori. It is 24 cm. in length, Cotypes were taken 

 at Same, Mororan, Aomori, and Hakodate. 



The type is numbered 7708, Ichthyological Collections, Leland 

 Stiinf ord Junior University Museum. Cot}' pes are No. 50920, U.S. N. M. 



{I'animi-s^ frog-like, from the markings of the throat.) 



26. MYOXOCEPHALUS STELLERI Tilesius. 



Myoxoceplialus stelleri Tilesius, Mem. Acad. Petersb., IV, 1811, p. 273 with 

 plate, not referred to in text; Petropaulski (Coll. G. W. Steller). — Jordan 

 and Gilbert, Rept. Invest. Fur Seal Islands, III, 1898, p. 463, pi. Lxiva; 

 Berinjj Island. — Jordan and Evermann, Fish. N. and M. Amer., II, 1898, 

 p. 1981; Petropaulski. — Schmidt, Faune Mer Japon, 1903, p. 115; Japan 

 Sea, Okhotsk Sea. 



CotlHH demdremh Kner, DiMik. Kais. Akad. Wissen., XXIV, 1805, j). 2, pi. ii, 

 figs. 1, lo; Decastris Bay, near mouth of the Amur. 



f C'otlns mannoralas Civier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIll, 1S31, 

 ]). 497: Petropaulski; on a drawing by Mertens. 



IX IX (rarely VIII)-15 (rarely It)); A. 12 (11 to 13). Kesembling 

 in shape Jf. polycant}ioceph(iJu><^ the head less depressed and the snout 

 deeper than in J/. ja<>l\ Characteristic features are the thickened 

 pai)illose lips, the presence of a supraocidar tentacle, and the pecu- 

 liar coloration. Skin naked, or with a few scattered small plates in 

 adult males, the interorbital deeply concave, and the occipital and 

 parietal ridges heavy and more or less broken <>r rugose. Head 2: to 

 2| in length; depth 4: least depth of caudal peduncle IV in snout; 

 greatest width of head equaling distiince from tip of snout to base of 



