NO. 135S. JAPANESE SCULPINS— JORDAN AND ST. I />'A'.S'. 2 « 1 



.side of head faintly diiskv, mottled and maculated witli white " like a 

 fr()o-\s belly;" iris with small black spots and blotches; these colors 

 fainter in our adult specimen. avIumv the under sid(> of he;ul is nearlv. 

 uniform whitish; the maxillary nuMuhianes, however, conspicuously 

 black spotted; body brownish, with :> lii;ht-orjiy saddles, the most 

 conspicuous crossinu- the back of the caudal j)eduncle inuuedialel^' 

 behind the dorsal tin; t\w second below the doi-sal notch, and the third, 

 oft(Mi ()))scure or wanting, formin*:- a V-shaixnl area on top of head, 

 the 2 arms diverjjjinij;' from interoi'bital sp:ic(> towai'd the base of oper- 

 cular s|)ine: the dark areas often lighter centrally, and \arionsl\' 

 ])lotchcd and mottled with l)rown or dusky; dorsals very irregular in 

 the marking; anal usually with 8 or 4 obli([ue dark bars; cjuulal usuallv 

 with a basal translucent bar followed by \aryiiig alternations of trans- 

 lucent and black; ventrals showing ^ black crossl)ars; pectorals with 

 no detinite color pattern on their outer face, but crossed on their 

 iiuier face by a few irregular black ])ars. Males show the usual round 

 white spots on sides of a))domen. It is well distinguished l)y the 

 speckUnl throat and belly, aptly compared b}' Steller to the speckled 

 coloi" of a frog. Western shore of Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea; not 

 recorded from Alaska or the Aleutian Islands. This description from 

 11 specimens from Petropaulski and Bering Island, taken by the V . S. 

 Fish Conuuission steamer Alhatro.sx. This species is now recorded 

 from Bering and Medni Islands. Petropaulski, and the mouth of the 

 Anuu- Rivei-. Recorded l)y Dr. Peter Schmidt from near Vladivostok 

 and from Saghalin. 



(Named for Georg Wilhelm Steller.) 



27. MYOXOCEPHALUS BRANDTI ( Steindachner). 



Coitus brandli Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, V, 1867, j*. (i, \A. iii, tigs. 1, 2; 



mouth of the Amur River. (Type, in Vienna Mu8.) 

 MijoxocephdliiH brandti Jordan ami Evermann, Fish. X. ami M. Amer., II, 



p. 1984, 1898 (copied). — Schmidt, Faune de la Mer du Japoii, etc., 1903, p. 



15; Jajian Sea. 



Head2|; depth 5. D. IX-i^; A. 11; P. IT. Head nanowed for- 

 ward, the lower jaw included. Eye (> in head, a little larger than 

 snout; interoi'bital space strongly concave, H in eye. .\ rather long 

 t<'ntacle above eye posterioi'ly ; behind this a ridge, low and lather 

 sharp, converging with its fellow, and iiu-losing a depn^ssed cpiad- 

 rangul'.ir area; no spine at its posterior end; nasal spines prominent; 

 preorpercle with 3 spines, the upper shorter than eyi\ the second not 

 one-half its length, th(> third short, blunt, and turnt>d downward: 

 opercular spine, i)lunt, concealed: suprascapula witli a single long 

 spine. Top of head covered with small rounded warts. Lateral line 

 M'ith thin, bony concealed plates, its pores .sending nmntu-ous simple 

 branches al)ove and below: below the lateral line '2 rows of small cross 

 plates, tube-like, apparently connected with the system of tubes of 

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