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dunrle equals about a fourth of the length of the caudal fin. The head, from 

 the snout to the margin of the auriform projection, almost or quite equals a 

 fourth of the length, while its breadth enters nearly 6 times in the same, and 

 is little greater than the height ; the forehead is depressed, and the snout mod- 

 erately high and decurved. The eyes are just within the anterior half of the 

 head ; the width of the forehead between them equals a third of the head's 

 length. The anterior nostrils are simple ; the posterior tubular. The dorsal 

 and anal are connate with the caudal ; the former united for about a fourth of 

 the length of the caudal, the latter two-fifths. The caudal is convex behind, 

 and forms a seventh of the length. The pectoral enters about 5j times in the 

 length, and the ventral disk ten times. 



D. XII. 30. A. II. 32. 0.11. P. 27+8. 



The color is uniform reddish-brown or dark chesnut, without spots or bands. 



This species, in general form as well as color, resembles the L. Montagui, but 

 is in other respects widely different. Its relations to the other Greenland 

 species is exhibited in the analytical synopsis ; it is well distinguished by its 

 rusty color. 



Specimens were obtained by the Arctic navigator, Dr. Hayes, at Port Foulke, 

 Greenland, and are preserved in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, and the Smithsonian Institution. In the Museum of the latter, there is 

 only a single specimen. 



Liparis Fabrich. 



Doubtful Synonymy. 



Cyclopterus liparis, altera minor, Abopokitsok, Fab.. Fauna Grcenlandica, p. 135, 



1780. 

 Cyclopterus liparis, minor Walbaum in Artedi, Genera Piscium, p. 489, 1792. 

 Cyclopterus liparis, a Bonnaterre, Tableau Encyclopedique et Melthodique. 



lchthyologie, p. 28, 1788. 

 Liparis tunicata, pp. Reinhardt, Oversigt orer det kongelige Danske Viden- 



skabernes Selskabs Forbandlinger vi., p. cxi., (tr. Archiv fur Naturges- 



chichte, Jarhg. iii.,B. i., p. 267, 1836). 

 Yix Liparis tunicatus Reinhardt, op. cit., p. 78. (Isis von Oken, 1844, 819), 



1842. 



Determined Synonymy. 



Liparis Fabricii Kroyer, Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, ser. 2, B. ii., p. 274, 1847. 

 Liparis Fabricii, pp. Reinhardt, in Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse of 



Gronland, 1857. 

 Liparis Fabricii, pp. Gill, Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast, p. 47. 

 Liparis tunicatus, (Fabricii, Kr.) Liltken Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den 



Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn, 1860, p. 173. 

 Liparis Fabricii Kroyer, Naturhistorisk Tidskrift, ser. 3, B. i., p. 235, 1862. 

 Laparis Fabricii Giinther, Catalogue of the Fishe3, &c, iii., 161, 1861. 



Fabricius, in the Fauna Grcenlandica, refers to the Cyclopterus liparis of 

 Linnseus, two forms of Liparis found by him in Greenland. To the first vari- 

 ety " 1) Altera minor, Abopokitsok " were attributed 39 dorsal, 33 anal, 30 

 pectoral, and 14 caudal rays; 4 tubular nostrils; a union of the dorsal and 

 anal fins wi h the caudal, which latter is nearly cuneate, and a fuscous color ; 

 the jaws externally, the inferior ocular region and the opercula have rather 

 indistinct white dots, and the tips of the upper pectoral rays being: likewise 

 white. This combination does not entirely agree with any of the Greenland 

 species, as described by Kroyer, but most approximates to the L. Fabricii; from 

 that species the number of caudal rays, (14) if correctly stated, would sepa- 

 rate it, and the color is also, perlups, inconsistent. I am fain, then, to leave 

 the identity of this species in doubt, trusting that future material may enable 

 ns to arrive at a certain decision. 



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