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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
lighter in color; young individuals frequently uniform plumbeous black with a conspicuous transverse 
band of silvery white on anterior part of body. Four to 5 inches long, specimens from Puget Sound 7 
inches. 
Very close to B. recalvus, which is its southern representative. Known from Puget Sound to Pigeon 
Point, San Mateo Co., Cal., where it stops abruptly, B. recalvus succeeding it immediately to the south. 
A few specimens have been taken, however, immediately south of Monterey Bay, within the range 
of B. recalvus. Its occurrence to the south needs further investigation. 
Comparative measurements of six specimens of Blennicottus globiceps. 
Measurements. 
Collectors and localities. 
E. 0. Starks, 
Neah Bay, 
Washington, 
L.S. Jr. 
U.M. (3404). 
E. C. Starks, 
Neah Bay, 
Washington, 
L. S. Jr. 
U.M. (3404). 
Greeley & 
Cowles, 
Pillar Point. 
Greeley <fc 
Cowles, 
Pillar Point. 
Greeley & 
Spaulding, 
Pigeon Point. 
Greeley & 
Spaulding, 
Pigeon Point. 
Extreme length in millimeters 
144 
77 
63 
61 
73 
71 
Greatest height of body 
31 
28 
28 
30 
28 
28 
Least height of caudal peduncle. . . 
9 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
Length of caudal peduncle 
15 
16 
16 
16 
16 
17 
Length of head 
26 
28 
28 
29 
29 
27 
W id t h of head 
23 
23 
24 
24 
25 
24 
Width of interorbital space 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
Height of head at pupil 
17 
18 
17 
18 
17 
17 
Length of snout 
9 
9 
8 
9 
9 
9 
Diameter of orbit 
5 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
Distance from snout to spinous 
dorsal 
22 
25 
25 
25 
24 
24 
Length of spinous dorsal at base . . 
32 
31 
27 
29 
28 
27 
Height, of spinous dorsal 
10 
9 
9 
10 
10 
9 
Length of soft dorsal at base 
41 
43 
42 
41 
42 
44 
Height of soft dorsal 
13 
11 
14 
14 
12 
13 
Distance from snout to anal 
57 
55 
55 
55 
56 
55 
1 1 eight of longest anal ray 
14 
14 
16 
16 
15 
14 
Length of caudal 
19 
22 
25 
24 
19 
21 
Distance from snout to pectoral . 
26 
28 
30 
30 
29 
29 
Length of pectoral 
32 
31 
33 
31 
32 
31 
Distance from snout to ventral 
28 
31 
34 
31 
31 
30 
Length of ventral 
21 
22 
24 
23 
22 
21 
Number of dorsal spines 
9 
9 
9 
9 
9 
9 
Number of dorsal rays 
16 
17 
16 
16 
17 
16 
Number of anal rays 
11 
11 
11 
11 
12 
11 
Number of pectoral rays 
14 
14 
14 
13 
14 
14 
Oxycottus acuticeps (Gilbert). 
Oligocottus acuticeps Gilbert, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 ^*896), 432, Unalaska; Vancouver 
Island. (Coll. Albatross.) 
Oxycottus acuticeps Jordan & Evermaun, Fishes of North and Middle America, ii, 2015, 1898. Van- 
couver Island to PTnalaska, Alaska; Bean & Bean, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, 1893, 665. 
This fish has been reported also from Prince William Sound (coll. A. W. Greeley), from Kadiak 
Island (coll. C. Rutter), and from Sitka and Kadiak by Dr. Bean. 
Oxycottus embryum (Jordan & Starks). 
Oligocottus embryum Jordan & Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 808, pi. 82, Neah Bay, Washington 
(type, No. 3128, L. S. Jr. University Museum. Coll. E. C. Starks). 
Oxycottus embryum Jordan & Evermaun, Fishes of North and Middle America, n, 2016, 1898. 
Several additional specimens of this interesting and apparently rare species were obtained at 
Point Lobos. Color, dull lavender, marked dorsally with five or six indented spots of black ; irregular 
vermiculations of same color on sides of body, which is hounded below by a band of reddish-brown, 
containing many conspicuous white spots; a reddish-brown spot on top of head indented and edged 
posteriorly with white; two reddish-brown bands running downward from eye; pectoral pinkish, 
barred with olive; dorsals, anal, and caudal barred with brown; throat and under side of thorax 
silvery-white; belly pale-greenish. Distinguished from the species of Blennicottus by the sharpness 
of the snout and preopercular spines, and the lateral extension of mouth. 
This is one of the rarest and most beautiful of the tide-pool cottoids. The prevailing lavender 
tint in its coloration imitates closely the Corallina, among which it lives in the deeper tide-pools. It 
is recorded only from Point Lobos, Monterey County, Cal., from Puget Sound, and from Sitka and 
Karluk, Alaska. 
