109. LIPARIDID^E LIPARIS. 741 



1131. L. major (Walb.) Gill. 



Dorsal arid anal slightly connected with base of caudal; anterior 

 nostrils tubular; posterior simple. D. 45; A. 38; P. 42; C. 10. Size 

 very large. L. 10 inches. Greenland. (GUI.) 



(Cydopteriis It pans var. major, Walb. ArtetU Pise. 489, 1792: Li parts tunicata Kroyer, 

 Naturh. Tidsskr. i, 236, 1862: Actinochir major Grill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 

 193.) 



1132. L.. pulcliella Ayres. 



Grayish, usually with wavy purplish stripes, sometimes marbled and 

 spotted with purplish; pectorals spotted or banded with grayish purple; 

 lateral line with round whitish spots. Snout broad and blunt, project- 

 ing beyond mouth; maxillary reaching nearly to front of eye; teeth 

 short, close-set, a broad band in each jaw, that of upper jaw broadest. 

 Body compressed behind, thick in front; head almost globular; ante- 

 rior nostrils tubular; skin very thin and lax. Dorsal tin high, undi- 

 vided, continuous with anal and caudal around the tail; tail tapering 

 to a point, appearing isocercal, but the vertebrae essentially as in other 

 species; pectorals very broad, the base of lowermost rays under eye; 

 ventral disk small, oval, 2 in head; pseudobranchise well developed. 

 Head 5; depth 5. D. 48; A. 39; C. 12; P. 36. L. 10 inches. Pacific 

 Coast, from Monterey to Puget Sound ; not rare. 



(Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 1855, 23; Gunther, iii, 164 ; Steiudachuer, Ichth. 

 Beitiiige, iii, 53, 1875.) 



1133. L,. gibba Bean. 



Head and body very pale brown or gray, paler below; head and 

 anterior parts often with concentric brown rings; sides plain or marked 

 with brown stripes and rings; tail sometimes with dark blotches; ver- 

 tical tins usually with dark bauds. Body abruptly contracted near the 

 vent, covered with lax skin; "interorbital space shallow-concave, the 

 vertex and nape somewhat elevated; snout depressed; head as wide as 

 long, longer than deep; nostrils tubular, 'the tubes of anterior nostrils 

 longest; eye small, 4 in head; ventral disk nearly circular, 8 in length; 

 vertical fins confluent; dorsal continuous; longest dorsal ray half as 

 long as head; pectorals reaching front of anal; caudal C in body. 

 Head 3i ; depth 3. D. 42 ; A. 30 ; P. 35 ; C. 12. Bering's Sea, 

 Alaska and Siberia. "Distinguished from L. fabricii by its smaller 

 eye and its depressed snout," and from "L. tunicata' 17 by the larger 

 eye and fewer rays in dorsal, anal, and pectorals. (Bean.) 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iv, 148, 1881.) 



