MALACOPTERYGII SUBBRACHIATI. 521 



The Cyclopterus spinosus is from the seas of the North, 

 and particularly inhabits the gulfs and creeks of the 

 southern shores of Greenland. It spawns in the month of 

 March. Its eggs are fawn-coloured. The inhabitants never 

 eat its flesh, though they do not despise that of the lumpus. 



The Cyclopterus minutus inhabits the Atlantic Ocean, and 

 the C. nudus the Indian seas. 



The species of Liparis, which in the text forms a sub- 

 genus, is the genus Cyclogaster of Gronovius. It is 

 easily distinguished from lepadogaster, which have the pec- 

 toral fins double and united ; and from cyclopterus, in which 

 there are two dorsals, and the odd fins are isolated, whereas 

 in this subgenus the odd fins are united, and there is but a 

 single dorsal. 



The skin of the C. liparis is loose, and invested with a 

 thick viscous matter : its size is about eighteen inches. This 

 fish, whose flesh is fat and mucous, feeds on insects, worms, 

 and small marine animals. It lays at the end of winter or 

 the beginning of spring. Steller tells us that its eggs are 

 about the size of a pea. It serves as food to the inhabitants 

 of Greenland. It inhabits the most northern seas in the vi- 

 cinity of the pole. It is to be found on all the coasts of the 

 Icy Sea, even as far as Kamtschatka, and often in the mouths 

 of the rivers which roll thither their ices and their waters. 

 It has been caught sometimes both in England and Holland, 

 particularly at Amsterdam, in that arm of the sea called Y. 



The C. gelatinosus was first described by Pallas, and its 

 flesh is so bad that not even the dogs themselves will eat 

 thereof. 



