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ing front of anal or past ; dorsals not connected, the highest spine about |, 

 the highest soft dorsal H, in head; ventrals reaching to vent. Color 

 light gray, covered with many spots forming reticulations on sides and 

 top of head ; ventrals white, other fins covered by wavy, dark bars ; dorsal 

 entirely dusky, with a narrow white edge; belly and lower parts white. 

 Fraser Eiver Basin. Here described from one of the type specimens, 3 

 inches in length ; collected at Field, British Columbia, in Kicking Horse 

 River, by Dr. Eigeninann. This has been compared with many specimens 

 of Coitus beldingii from localities in Washington and Idaho and from Lake 

 Tahoe. All of these are less slender than the types, the depth being 4 to 

 5 inches in length, but they do not differ otherwise, and later investiga- 

 tions will probably show the entire identity of Coitus philonips with Coitus 

 beldingii. 



This name (Coitus philonips) was proposed as a substitute for Coitus 

 minutuSj Pallas, supposed to be preoccupied, and Coitus microstomus (Lock- 

 ington), not of Heckel; but the original description was taken from a 

 specimen from Kicking Horse River. The first mentioned is perfectly 

 available, but was applied to a specimen from the island of Talek, near 

 Tauisk, in the Okhotsk Sea. It is very doubtful, therefore, whether Coitus 

 minutus should be used for any American species in advance of comparison 

 with the Siberian form. From the Aleutian Island species (C. microstomus 

 Lockington, C. aleuticus Gilbert), C. philonips differs in many important 

 respects, and is undoubtedly distinct. Thus the Alaskan form has the 

 posterior nostrils in short, but conspicuous tubes, the preorbital produced 

 into a lobe which conceals all of the maxilary except the extreme tip, and 

 the dorsal fin with 8 or 9 spines and 18 to 20 soft rays. (fyiXeGd, to love; 

 vit^), snow, viitTGo, to wash.) 



Cottus philonips * EIGENMANN & EIGENMANN, Amer. Nat., xxvi, 963, 1892, Kicking Horse 

 River, Field, British Columbia; EiQENMANN & EIGENMANN, Bull. IT. S. Fish Comm. 

 1894, 118; GILBERT & EVEKMANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1894, 204, in part, includes 

 Cottus beldingii. 



2332. COTTUS ANNJE, Jordan & Starks. 



Head 3 to 3| ; depth 5. D. VII or VIII, 17 or 18 ; A. 12 ; eye 5 in head ; 

 maxillary 3f; highest dorsal 3|; highest soft ray 2; pectoral 1; ventral 

 If; 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 Cottus philonips; the maxillary 

 reaching to front of pupil; teeth in moderately wide bands on jaws and 

 vomer, palatines toothless, or with a few teeth in a narrow band on front ; 

 interorbital (bone only) equals i eye; eye smaller than length of snout; 

 preopercle with only 1 small blunt spine, below which the edge is entire. 



* This species is thus described by Eigenmann & Eigenmann : Head about 3J to 4. D. 

 Vlll or IX, 16 to 18 ; A. II, 13 ; Y. I, 4. Pectoral reaching anal or past vent even in larg- 

 est specimens. Anal equidistant from tip of snout and base of caudal or nearer tip of 

 snout. Ashy gray with' blackish blotches. No well-defined cross bars excepting some- 

 times near the tail. Frequently a dusky blotch on anterior part of spinous dorsal and 

 another near its posterior end ; the fin sometimes wholly dusky, margined with white. 

 l ectoralH soft dorsal, and caudal more or less barred. The types taken in the icy waters 

 ot the Kicking Horse, at Field, British Columbia, with Goregonus coulteri. (Eigenmann.) 



