107. COTTIU.E COTTUS, 703 



Siibsp. grrcKsaiaBadicus (Cuv. »& Val.) Beiiu.— Daddy Sculjnn. 



Daik brown above, with broad darker bars; below yellowish, the 

 belly ill the male with larj;e pale .spots; back and top of head with 

 grayish blotcliQS; tins brown and yellow, all of them spotted and 

 ba.rred. Head large. Mouth large; maxillary reaching posterior edge 

 of orbit, 2.\ in head; the supraorbital and occipital spines tidiercle-like; 

 a small tubercular spine on front of occipital ridge; upper preoi>ercular 

 si)iue reaching middle of opercular spine, its length equal to eye, not 

 twice that of the si)ino below it; nasal spines sharp. Sides of body 

 above lateral line with a series of imbedded prickly j^lates, below 

 which are numerous scattered spines and prickles. Dorsal and anal 

 fius high; spinous and soft dorsals about equal in height, their height 

 more than one-seventh of length of body; ventrals long; pectorals 

 about reaching vent. Eye large, equal to least interorbital width (in 

 specimens a foot long). Head 2i; depth 4 J. D. X-17; A. 14; V. I, 3; 

 P. 18. L. 25 inches. Kew York to Greenland, common; one of the 

 largest sculpins. 



(Cottiis grwiilandicus Cuv. &Val.iv, 156: AcanfJiocotfns rariaUJis Gir.ard, Bost. Jonrn. 

 Nat. Hist, vi, 248: CoUm (/rcenlandicns Giintlier, ii, 161; Good« & Beau, Bull. Essex 

 lust, xi, 1.3, 1879: AcanthocoUus mriablJis Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass. 26; Day, Fisli. Gt. 

 Brit. 1880, .'1 : ? Cottiis 2)orosus C. & V. viii, 498: AcanthocoUus mucosua Ayres, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. 1854, 12.) 



1076. C. polyacaaathocepEBalBos Pallas. 



Dark olive above, much variegated with darker and reddish; belly 

 mostly whitish; sides and bell}' (in males) with numerous blackish reticu- 

 lations surrounding large round white spots; jaws dusky, mottled with 

 whitish; membrane joining maxillary to i)reorbital black, with round 

 white spots; fins, all but the A^entrals, mottled and barred with blackish 

 and yellowish. Body rather elongate. Head long and narrow, some- 

 what compressed, concave between the orbits, the orbital rim being 

 elevated; nasal spines strong; a strong ridge above eye, with a blunt 

 compressed spine behind it; behind this a small digitate cluster of 

 ridges ending in low sjunes; behind these an irregular broken ridge 

 on each side of the vertex, extending to the occiput; outside of this 

 another ragged ridge ; suborbital stay strong, striate ; upper i>reopercu- 

 lar spine long, straight, simple, striate at base, longer than eye; a 

 shuilar but shorter si)ine below it, not half as long, and the usual 

 downward directed spine at lower edge of preopercle and sub()j)ercle; 

 opercular s]>ine moderate. Mouth rather lar<;e, the maxillary reaching 

 beyond eye, half length of head; skin of top of head covered with 

 small smooth warts; skin of body with some scattered rough tuber- 



