1872 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



from Kamchatka* and Unalaska to San Francisco; abundant in Puget 

 Sound, but rather rare among the Aleutian Islands, and scarcely known 

 south of Cape Mendocino ; erroneously recorded from Japan, where Hexa- 

 (jrammos otakii, Jordan & Starks, has been mistaken for it. (Named for 

 Georg Wilhelm Steller, the indefatigable naturalist of Bering's voyage. ) 

 Hexagrammos stetteri, TILESIUS, M6m. Acad. St. Petersb., n, 335, 1809, Kamchatka. (Coll . 



Steller.) 

 Hexagrammos asper (STELLER, MS.) TILESIUS, Mem. Acad. St, Petersb., n, 1810, 340, pi. 15, 



Kamchatka. (Coll. Steller.) 



Labrax stelleri, PALLAS, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb., n, 395, 1810. 

 Labrax hexagrammus, PALLAS, M6m. Acad. St. Petersb., 11,1810,395, pi. 23, fig. 3, Petro- 



paulski, Kamchatka ; PALLAS, Zoogr. Kosso-Asiat., in, 284, 1811. 

 Chiropsisnebulosus, G-IRAED, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., x, Fislies, 45, 1858, Puget Sound and at 



Fort Steilacoom. (Coll. Dr. Suckley.) 



Chirus trigrammus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila. 1873, 29, Unalaska. 

 Labrax hexagrammus, TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japoiiica, 53, pi. 23, 1847; not of 



PALLAS. 



Chirus hexagrammus, GUNTHER, Cat. Fislies Brit. Mus., n, 91 ; in part. 

 Hexagrammus asper, STEINDACHNER, Beitr. Fische Japans, iv, 10 ; not of STELLER. 

 Chirus hexagrammus, GUNTHER, Cat., II, 91, 1860. 

 Chirus nebulosus, GUNTHER, Cat., n, 93, 1860. 

 Acantholebius nebulosus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 166. 

 Hexagrammos hexagrammus, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fishes, 434, 1896. 



2261. HEXAGRAMMOS SUPERC1LIOSUS (Pallas). 

 (BED ROCK TROUT.) 



Head 4; depth 3^. D. XX, 23; A. 22; scales 107. Body rather robust ; 

 supraorbital flap long and slender, densely fringed, its length about equal- 

 ing vertical diameter of orbit. Scales mostly cycloid, a band of ctenoid 

 scales often present on postaxial region; 8 or 9 scales in an oblique 

 series between second and third rows of pores. A small patch of teeth 

 often present on front of palatines. First and fourth lateral lines long, 

 usually reaching beyond the middle of soft dorsal and anal; caudal very 

 broad, rounded posteriorly, even when fin is closed, the membranes covered 

 basally with small scales, those on median membranes in several series ; 

 dorsals very deeply notched. Colors usually bright, but varying through 

 green, brown, and bright red, usually dark green with large round red 

 spots, but extremely variable and sometimes finely mottled. Bering 



* Dr. Jordan has the following notes on this species : 



"Two specimens from Petropaulski; 1 young example from Unalaska. This species 

 seems much less abundant along the shores of Bering Sea than H. octogrammus (ordina- 

 tus). The Petropaulski specimens give the following data: Dorsal XXII, 21 ; XXIII, 20 ; 

 anal 23, 24; pectoral 20. Cheek scaled above and behind the suborbital stay, naked in 

 front of and including the stay, except for a small patch of scales immediately below the 

 stay, present in 1 specimen. Interopercle, subopercle, and opercle naked, except for a small 

 patch of scales on upper part of the latter. Upper lateral line ending under second or fourth 

 spine in 1 specimen, under tenth or twelfth spine in the other; the fourth extends 

 barely to base of ventrals in 1 specimen, to opposite end of basal fifth of ventrals in the other. 

 There are 7, 8, or 9 scales in an oblique series between second and third lines, counted near 

 middle of body. The lowermost line forks at a point slightly nearer base than tip of ven- 

 trals, its distance from ventrals less than its distance from vent. Ventrals pointed, 

 extending beyond pectorals and more than halfway to front of anal. The caudal fin is 



