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as to this, 17 are males, 28 females. Among specimens obtained at Petro- 

 paulski and at Albatross Station 3646, off Robben Island, in 18 fathoms, 

 no males are included. The females differ from those we have examined 

 from Bristol Bay in having the top of head more extensively plated, the 

 rough plates extending onto middle of interorbital space, or in 1 specimen 

 onto snout. The preorbital ridges are less regular and have lower tuber- 

 cles. The specimens indicate an approach therefore to G. galeatus. The 

 fin rays are as previously given. In 8 specimens they are as follows : 



Coasts of Alaska; taken abundantly in Bristol Bay in 4& to 26 fathoms." 

 (pistilla, pistil; gero, I bear; in allusion to the axillary pap ill 03 of the 

 male.) 



Gottus pistilliger, PALLAS, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., in, 43, 3811, Unalaska; CUVIER & VALEN- 

 CIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 193, 1329; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 167, 1860. 



Cottus vcntralis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., TV, 194, 1829, Kamchatka (Coll. 

 Mr. Collee. Type in Brit. Mas.) ; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 167, 1860. 



Gottus cephaloides, GRAY, in CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 194, 1829, 

 Kamchatka. (Type of G. ventralis.) 



Elaphoeottus pistilliger, SAUVAGE, Nouv. Archiv. Mus. 1878, 142. 



Gymnocanthus pistilliger, GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 424; SCOFIELD,* 

 Eept. Fur Seal Investigations, 1898. 



2376. GYMNOCANTHUS TRICTJSPIS (Reinhardt). 



HeadSi; depth 4f. D. XII, 16; A. 18; V. I, 3; P. 16; vertebra 12 + 28 

 = 40. Nasal spines small; occipital ridges low, the space between them 



*Mr. Scofield has the following note on this species: 



Ihree specimens taken at Grantly Harbor, Port Clarence, Alaska. 



Fin formula;. 



i taken by the Albatross in southern Bering Sea 

 o ? l^e female taken at Port Clarence the crown (not between 

 nrespTit il , f opercles are covered with scabrous bony plates. These 



-" MSSSsfii 



the pSS^^S^^toSffi^ C Ver ? by e P ecto ^ ls ' and the^middle rays of 

 Atlantic side of Nor n A r ^ g K^ e ]f frSffe fish has been reported from the 



Atlantic side of * 



like filaments are moiitioiieu in tnei 

 jpeoimen, a female 5 or 6 inches long a 

 these Irom Bering Sea. He identified it 

 a S e !J* rfect !y with our specimens? but 1 



8 P eci , as the mushroom- 

 - Sir Jolm '^^ardson took a single 

 ?' . which aT>T)ears to be the same as 



s perecy with our pemns b"t * ^T 8 ^'^^ and his plate of it 

 back of the origin of the i>?( Ss ^n 1 h description he does not mention the prickles 



the second dorsal which oClpechnens do noThave" a W 8cabrou8bon y P lates Just below 



