THE FISHES OP BERING SEA. 



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unless based ou very extensive collections. Our 21 specimens show the following fin 

 formulae : 





First dor- 

 sal. 



Second 

 dorsal. 



Anal. 



Pectoral. 



Rays ...... ......... 



IX X 



18 3 



15 10 

 10 10 



12 13 14 15 

 1 1 15 5 



17 18 

 7 14 







Dr. Bean records tliis species from St. Michael, Obamisso Island, Escliscboltz 

 Bay, Point Belcher, Arctic Ocean. Mr. Scofield found it at Port Clarence and 

 Grantly Harbor. 



98. Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas). (Plate LXIII.) 



Several specimens from Unalaska and one from Kobbeu Island, the latter ])er- 

 fectly typical in all respects and giving us the first Okhotsk Sea record for the species. 

 In the I\obbeu Island specimen the pectoral rays are roughened on their inner surface 

 with horny tubercles, as is usual with adult males of this species. The fin rays are: 

 D., X, 14; A., 12; P., 18. 



Seen also at St. Paul and Unga, the species being generally (common in Bering Sea. 



Dr. Bean records it from Sitka, Kadiak, Cooks Inlet, Shumagins, Unalaska, Atka, 

 Amchitka, Port Moller, Cape Lisburne, and Plover Bay. Stejneger found it on 

 Bering and Medni islands and at Petropaulski. 



99. Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius. (Plate LXIVa.) 



Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, M6m. Acad. Petersb. 1811, IV, 273. 

 Coitus decastrensis Kner, Denk. Kais. Akad. Wissen. XXIV, 1865, 2, taf. 2, figs. 1, la. 

 Cottiis platycephalus Bean and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 240, 384; not of Pallas. 

 Cottiis niger Bean and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, 240, 384 (in part: Nos. 33899, 33872, 



33833, 33850, 33908, 33844, and 33879) ; not of Bean. 

 ? Coitus vierienaii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pols. VIII, 496. 

 ? Coitus marmoratus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pois. VIII, 497. 



This species is now recorded from Bering and Copper islands, Petropaulski, and 

 the mouth of the Amur liiver. It is evidently abundant in western Bering Sea, but 

 probably does not occur among the Aleutian Islands or on the Alaskan coast. There 

 seems to be no doubt that our specimens are correctly identified with Myoxocephalus 

 stelleri, with which they agree in fin rays and in the peculiar and characteristic 

 coloration. They agree also with the description of C. decastrensis, the figure of which, 

 however, diverges in several important details. It is highly improbable that G. 

 mertensii and C. marmoratus can ever be satisfactorily identified, as we have only very 

 brief accounts of them, based on colored drawings. 



Following is a detailed description of our specimens: Resembling in shape 

 M. polyacanthocephalus, the head less depressed and the snout deeper than in M. jaolc. 

 Characteristic features are the greatly thickened papillose lips, the presence of a 

 supraocular tentacle, and the peculiar coloration. The Skkin is naked or with a few 

 scattered small plates in adult males; the interorbital is deeply concave, and the 

 occipital and parietal ridges are heavy and more or less broken or rugose. 



Head 2f to 2f in length; depth, 4; least depth of caudal peduncle, 1^ in snout; 

 greatest width of head equaling distance from tip of snout to base of preopercular 

 spine. Depth of head at occiput equaling half its length. 



Mouth large, the lower jaw included, but less conspicuously overlapped than in 



