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Oligocottus maculosus Girard. 



Six specimens, 2 -5-3 -8 cm. long, Discovery Passage, Johnstone 

 Strait, 1885, G. M. Dawson. 



Fourteen specimens, 2 -5-7 -8 cm. long, Vancouver Island, B.C.» 

 Active Passage, rock-pool, August 28, 1895, E. E. Prince. 



No. 38014, U. S. Nat. Mus., five specimens collected by Rosa 

 Smith Eigenmann at San Diego, Cal., have all the characters 

 assigned by Greeley to Rusciculus rimensis, except that the preoper- 

 cular spine is bifid and that in mostof the specimens the prickles 

 extend on to the lower half of the body in the caudal region ; covering 

 the entire space between the soft dorsal and anal fins. Ten specimens, 

 Nos. 6224 and 6225, U. S. Nat. Mus., collected on the California 

 coast by Dr. Kennedy, are in very bad condition but seem to 

 agree with the San Diego specimens in preopercular spine and in the 

 presence of prickles. 



DiALARCHUS SNYDERi (Greeley) 



One specimen, 6-3 cm. long, Skidegate Inlet, B.C., W. Spread- 

 borough. 



Three specimens, Ucluelet, June and July 1909, low tide, seem 

 to be referable to this species. 



The specimen drawn (Plate IV) has the left preopercular spine 

 trifid as shown. The spine on the right side of this specimen and on 

 both sides of the other two are bicuspid. 



Blepsias cirrhosus (Pallas) 

 One specimen, 19-6 cm. long, British Columbia. 



CoTTUS ASPER (Richardson) . Blob. 



Five specimens, 13 -5-18 -5 cm. long, mouth of Fraser River, B.C., 

 A. Halkett. 



CoTTUS GULOSUS (Girard). Blob. 



Four specimens, 10 -8-12 -6 cm. long, Victoria, Vancouver Island, 

 B.C., J. Macoun. 



