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museum of California College, Oakland, by Rev. J. H. 

 Henry of Tahiti. It was said to have been taken at the 

 Hawaiian Islands. By the courtesy of Professor Inskeep 

 of this institution we have been permitted to examine this 

 type. The species is called by the natives No-h^, and 

 its poisonous dorsal spines cause it to be greatly dreaded. 



Family COTTID^. 

 9. Cottus annae Jordan & Starks, n. sp. Plate xxvii. 



Head y/ 2 to z¥\ in body, depth 5. D. VII or VIII- 

 16 or 17; A. 12; eye 5 in head; maxillary 37^; highest 

 dorsal spine ^A '■> highest soft ray 2; pectoral 1; ventral 

 1 1 ; caudal 1% . 



Body elongate, not much compressed; caudal peduncle 

 wide, wider than length of snout. Head small, broadly 

 rounded anteriorly as viewed from above ; snout blunt as 

 viewed from the side; mouth very small, without so much 

 lateral cleft as in Cottus beldingi or C. philonips, the max- 

 illary reaching to front of pupil; teeth in moderately wide 

 bands on jaws and vomer; palatines toothless or with a 

 few teeth in a narrowband on front; interorbital (bone 

 only) equals ]/ 2 eye; eye smaller than length of snout; 

 preopercle with only one small blunt spine, below which 

 its edge is entire. Pectoral barely reaching front of anal; 

 spinous dorsal very low, from 7^ to 73 as high as soft 

 dorsal, its base from its first spine to first ray of soft dor- 

 sal 1% in head; dorsals barely meeting, not at all con- 

 nected. 



Color light gray, somewhat mottled; ventrals and anal 

 colorless, other fins crossed with wavy lines; a black spot 

 on each end of spinous dorsal. 



We have compared these specimens with specimens of 

 Cottus beldingi from Birch Creek, Idaho, and from other 

 localities as also with a single type specimen of Cottus 



