107. COTTIDiE OLIGOCOTTUS. 717 



exteud on the fins; belly livid bluish or green, reticulated with 

 olive; the ground color is exceedingly variable, ranging from cherry- 

 red to green; lips blotched with white; fins all more or less barred; 

 liesh and membranes livid bluish. Top of head rugose, without spines; 

 interorbital space concave, narrower than the large eye; a fleshy flap 

 on middle of snout, and one on end of maxillar^^; superciliary cirri 

 large, more than half diameter of orbit, laciniate; upper preopercular 

 spine short, straight, about half diameter of eje; suborbital stay very 

 broad; maxillary extending to beyond eye. First four spines of dorsal 

 subequal, shorter than the fifth; dorsal fins scarcely connected at base; 

 pectorals shortish, not reaching anal. Skin thick and leathery, with- 

 out prickles or cirri. Head 3; depth 4. Eye G in head. D. XI-18; 

 A. 12; P. 15; V. I, 5 ; Lat. 1. (pores) ^'0; pyloric cceca about 30; ver- 

 tebrae 15 -f 21. L. 30 inches. Puget Sound to San Diego; very abun- 

 dant. The largest of our Cottidcc, reaching a weight of 10 to 15 pounds. 



{Remitripterus marmoratus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1854, 4; Girard, U. S. Pac. 

 R. R. Surv. Fish. (54; Gimther, ii, 154.) 



377.— OL,I«OCOTTUS Girard. 

 {Clinocottus and lilenmcottus Gill.) 

 (Girard, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 133: type Oligocottus maculosus Girard.) 



Body rather elongate, the skin smooth or provided with some small 

 prickly scales; preopercular spines short, simple or furcate; small ten- 

 tacles on head and anterior parts of body; gill-membranes broadly 

 united, free from the isthmus; a slit behind fourth gill; dorsal spines 

 slender, the fin short and not emarginate; anal papilla large; ventrals 

 I, 3, or I, 4. Small fishes of the J^orth Pacific, inhabiting rock-pools 

 between tide-marks. {6).'.y<):;, small; xo-rui;, Cottus.) 



a. Month with distinct lateral cleft; the head narrow anteriorly. 

 b. Skin with imbedded, pricklc-liko scales. (Clinocottus Gill.*) 



1102. O. analisGrd. 



Olivaceous, much mottled, and with numerous small black and white 



S])ots; about five irregular darker bars; a dark bar at base of caudal; 



fins all spotted; cirri very numerous, mostly whitish, giving the fish a 



woolly appearance in life. Head narrower anteriorly and rather i)ointed ; 



mouth with lateral cleft, the maxillary reaching beyond pupil; band of 



palatine teeth short and narrow; eye large, 5 in head, about twice the 



width of the deeply-grooved interorbital space; nasal spines distant 



*Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 106: type Oligocottus anafis Grd. (Clinus; 

 Cottus.) 



