Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 653 
Of the multitude of genera of Cottide we notice a few of 
the most prominent. Jordania zonope, a pretty little fish of 
Puget Sound, is the most primitive in its characters, being closely 
allied to the Hexagrammide. 
Scorpemchthys marmoratus, the great sculpin, or cabezon, of 
California reaches a length of 24 feet. It has the ventral rays 
Fic. 550.—Jordania zonope Starks. Puget Sound. 
1, 5, although almost in all the other sculpins the rays are. 
reduced to 1, 3 or 1, 4. The flesh has the livid blue color seen 
in the cultus cod, Ophiodon elongatus. 
To Icelinus, Artedius, Hemilepidotus, Astrolytes, and related 
genera belong many species with the body partly scaled. These 
Fic. 551.—Astrolytes notospilotus (Girard). Puget Sound. 
are characteristic of the North Pacific, in which they drop to 
a considerable depth. Jcelus, Triglops, and Artediellus are 
found also in the North Atlantic, the Arctic fauna of which is 
derived almost entirely from Pacific sources. The genus Hemi- 
lepidotus contains coarse species, with pvands of scales. The 
“Trish lord,” Hemilepidotus jordam, a familiar and fantastic 
