740 foNTKIIM'TIOXS TO XOKTIl AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY -- IV. 



sul beginning over pectoral; ;uial under ninth dorsal ray. Headl!'.-; 

 depth :>.\. 1). V, ;L; A. :>4; C. 6; P. 2:5. L. ."> inches. Deep water oft 

 the coast of Rhode Island; lately dredged by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 

 (Goode, I'r...-. T, s. \at. Mua. 1880,478.) 



393. CAREPROCTUS Kriiyer. 

 l KK">V<T, N.-iturh. Tidsskr. i, '2. r >?. !>:>.>: tyjn' LijHirix rctiiliardi Kriiyrr.) 



Body elongate, semi-transparent, covered with thin lax skin; month 

 oblique, the lower jaw projecting; teeth simple, hooked; ventral disk 

 small, situated far forwards, under front of eye; vent a little behind it, 

 far in front of anal tin. (/.a<ia, head; -[uu/.r<'>^, vent.) 



113O. . g-clatiitosus (Pallas) K foyer. 



Eose-colored; vertical fins violet; gill-cavity black. Ventral disk very 

 small, supported by a bilamellate cartilage descending from the throat; 

 vertical fins continuous. lir.dy oblong, compressed, semi-transparent, 

 soft, and gelatinous; head thick, flat above; cleft of mouth nearly ver- 

 tical, as in CriiiioxcopHH ; a series <;!' -pores along upper lip; jaws, palate, 

 and pharynx rough. with teeth; skeleton very weak. 1). more than ."(): 

 A. about 45; C. (i; P. :](); cu-ra ls ; vertebra- (i4. (Gihitlier.) Alaska 

 and Kamtschatka ; (iivnland. 



(Cydopterua iii-lnlinoxnn 1'allas. S]iicilci;ia, vii. !'., ITC.yf f.iinn-ix f/i litlhio/mx (Jiintlicr, 

 iii, Hi:!.' ." Li/inrix i/i-Iiitiiioxiix K'cinh. d\i'isi-t, &c. 1*\4, Ixxvii: ? Lijuiria rciithtinli 

 Ki'iiytT, Natnrli. Tidsskr. i, vJ'.vJ: .' ('urrin-ofltix fiiiil/nrili Kri'ist-r, I. C., 257, the Green- 

 land lurui, tliun^lil ly Hi-. Kri'.ycr lo lie dilVcrcnl IVoiu < . </<'l(ithi<>xns.) 



391. LIPARIS Linntriis. 

 Sea-Snail*. 



(Artedi; Liiina-ns, Syat. Nat.: type Ci/fli>iilrriix H/mrix L.) 



I'.ody rather elongate, covered with smooth skin, which is usually 

 l'reel\ movable; head short, tlattened above; mouth liori/ontal, the 

 lower ja\v included; teetl. in several series, usually (rieuspid; maxil- 

 lary covered by skin of preorl)ital region; ventral disk well developed, 

 on the In-east, its front below or behind the middle of the head ; vent 

 well behind the head, about midway between sucking-disk and anal fin. 

 Dorsal lin continuous or divided, its spines hardly differentiated ; dorsal 

 I'm free from caudal or not ; pectoral emarginate, some of the lower rays 

 produced; vertical lin> en veloped in skin. Northern seas (one species 

 known from Chili). (/.:.-</;<-;.-, sleek skinned, shining.) 



(i. Dorsal fin continuous. < Li/xn-ix.) 



b. Dorsal I'm comitM'ti'd \\illi I lie rand il. 



