744 CONTK'lIUTIoNS To NnK'Tll AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY - IV. 



from a small example taken at ^Monterey, perhaps belonging- to a 

 different species.) 



i .' l.\iin* I'l/i'lnjinx' (iiinther, ii, 163, 1801.) 



aa. Dorsal I'm emarginate, the spines separated from the soft rays; skin firm. (Seoli- 

 is\ Steiiid. ) 



1111. L. siDiirosa Ayres. 



Rose-red or brownish, unspotted. Body strongly eompressed, the 

 back somewhat elevated, not much depressed forwards, the head not 

 wider than deep, longer than in L. pnl<-hcll ; mouth rather large. 

 terminal, the jaws equal when closed; teeth blunily tricuspid, the 

 band in upper jaw widest; eyes small; skin linn, thick, little movable. 

 Dorsal fin separated into two parts by a deep emargination; second 

 dorsal rather low, entirely free from caudal ; anal nearly free from 

 caudal; pectorals moderate; ventral disk oval, l'i in head; vent at 

 posterior fourth of pectorals; end of tail truncate. Head 4J; depth 

 about 4. D. VII, 26; A. 20; C. 1C; P. 31. L. inches. Coast of Cali- 



fornia; rare. 



(LijHtr'iN i//mv.s Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 24, 1>?55: Liparis mucosus Giiii- 

 ther, iii, 559; Steiudaclmer, Ichth. Beitrtige, iii, 54, 1875.) 



FAMILY CX CYCLOPTERID^E. 



(The Lump Suckers.) 



Body short and thick, more or less elevated, covered with a thick 

 skin, which is smooth, tubercular, or spinous; head short and thick; 

 snborbital stay present, thin and flatfish: mouth small, terminal; jaws 

 with bauds of slender teeth; no teeth on vomer or palatines; gill- 

 openings narrow, restricted to the sides, the membranes being broadly 

 joined to the isthmus and shoulder girdle; branchiostegals (i; dorsal 

 tin long, the anterior part of llexible spines, which, in the adult, are 

 sometimes hidden by a tleshy hump, sometimes entirely wanting; 

 suit dorsal small, opposite the anal, and similar to it; caudal lin 

 rounded, free from the dorsal and anal: ventrals thoracic, nminieiitai \ , 

 forming the bon\ center of a sucking-disk; pectorals short, placed low. 



' In lr. ( iiintlid's Ivpi- uf /.. '-i/.-lo/nit-. (Yum l'.M|iiiiii:iiilt Ilarl:<r, Ilir I'm-fnriiiiila is 

 l>. :;."; A. :;n; C. Iv.'; llu- \mlial ili-k is said 1<t In- Irss than hall' tin- liMiylh nl' lln- 

 lii-ail. ami tln-dm-sal is said to hr^in Ist-hind I lie vent . Tlie species is said lua^in- 

 -in nearly every resprcl \\ith /.. i-nlijnrin" (liiuatu). Our .speeinieii is iiiueli nearer 



/.. intK'iiml. 



t Steindaeliner, lehlh. Uritia-c, iii. ,"1.4, !,-?.">: tyne /./; n' muconus Ayres. (veca, 



