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the lateral line; no rounded bony plates or scales. Longest dorsal 

 spine 3 in head; pectoral moderate, a little more than one-half head; 

 ventral 2i in head. Head bluish violet above; sides of body reddish 

 yellow; violet marblings on the lower lip and on the sides of the lower 

 jaw, leaving the ground color to form ocellated spots; fins violet with 

 yellow spots, the ventrals uniform yellowish. Known from 1 speci- 

 men lo inches long from the mouth of the Amur River. (Steindach- 

 ner.) Also recorded b_v Dr. Schmidt from Peter the Great Bay, 

 Vladivostok. 



19. MEGALOCOTTUS Gill. 



Me(/(iIorott IIS Gihh, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1861, p. 166 {pldfi/ceplialus) . 



This genus includes large sculpins, with broad, flat heads, ditt'ering 

 from Myoxocephalits chiefl}" in the sharp projecting lower jaw; the 

 preopercle has 3 spines, the upper short and straight, the lowermost 

 turned downward; dentation imm jryoxoce^^Jialus; suprascapula with 

 2 spinous projections; top of head warty; sides with rounded tuber- 

 cles in the adult; lateral line of separated pores; a large pore behind 

 last gill. North Pacific. 



{/ASyaXog great; Coftiis.) 



28. MEGALOCOTTUS PLATYCEPHALUS (Pallas). 



Cottus plaiycephalii.f Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Ill, isll, ji. 135; Kamchatka, 

 after Steller. — Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 177. 



Cottus taeniopteruii Kner, 8itzber Ak. Wiss. Wieu, LVIII, 1868, p. 18, j)]. xiv, 

 fig. 10; Decastris Bay, near mouth of Amur River. (No. 5574, Mus. AVien.) 



MegalocoUus pjidijcepliulus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 166. — 

 Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fur Seal Comm., Ill, 1898, p. 469.— 

 Jordan and Evermaxn, Fishes N. M. Amer., II, 1898, p. 1987, fig. 725, St. 

 Michael. — Schmidt, Faune Mer, Japon, 1903, p. 15; Japan Sea, Okhotsk Sea. 



Head 3 in length, D. VIH— 13; A. 12; V. I, 3; P. 1(5 or 17; lateral 

 line -10. Lower jaw somewhat longer than upper; e3'e 5 in head, as 

 long as snout; nasal spines distinct; orbital rim moderately prominent; 

 a low ridge behind it toward the occiput, without spines or points. 

 Top of head between these ridges forming a quadrangular depression, 

 as broad as the eye in front, but narrower behind. Top of head cov- 

 ered with naked, warty skin. Preopercle with l spines, the upper as 

 long as ej^e, directed upward and backward, the second much shorter, 

 the others directed downward. Opercle with a long, forked ridge, 

 ending in two short diverging spines; a spine directed downward on 

 subopercle; two sharp spines on scapular region, the lower the longer 

 and touching the first tube of the lateral line. Lateral line complete, 

 above, its numerous rounded bony plates armed wnth spines as in M. 

 laticeps; these in 2 rows anteriorly and 1 posteriorly; a few similar 

 plates below lateral line. Fins all high, the soft dorsal especially so. 

 Color dark, with many dark shades and spots on throat and belly, 



