Pareioplite, or Mailed-cheek Fishes 443 
inhabitant of Bering Sea, is much valued by the Aleuts as a 
food-fish, although the flesh is rather tough and without much 
Fic. 383.—Irish Lord, Hemilepidotus jordani Bean. Unalaska. 
flavor. Almost equally common in Bering Sea is the red scul- 
pin, Hemuilepidotus hemileprdotus, and the still rougher Cera- 
Fic. 384.—Triglops pingeli Kroyer. Chebucto, Canada. 
tocottus diceraus. The stone-sculpin, or buffalo-sculpin, Knoplirys 
bison, with bony plates on the side and rough horns on the preo- 
Fic. 335.—Buffalo Sculpin, Enophrys bison (Girard). Puget Sound. 
percle, is found about Puget Sound and southward. In ali 
these large rough species from the North Pacific the preopercle 
