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locality 'Off Block Island, from a pecten/ tliat may be positively identi- 

 fied, bears peculiar markings: From the tip of tbe snout a wbite line 

 passes above the eye to meet its fellow of the opposite side at the begin- 

 ning of the dorsal, which is white; and a white si)ot as large as the orbit 

 extends downward and slightly backward from the eye. These marks 

 are very distinct, and they give the specimen (^uite a different appear- 

 ance from that of another of the same size and origin, uniform in colora- 

 tion." (CTarman.) (Eu.) 



lAparis nostras, Willughbt, Hist. Pise, App., 17, 1686, based on a specimen taken Sep- 

 tember 15, 1685, by Dr. Johnson. 

 Liparu* Aetedi, Descr. Spec. Pise., 117, 1738, after Willughby. 

 Liparis cyclogaster, Gronow, Mvis., 157, 1768. 

 Cyclo%)terus liparis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, i, 414, 1766, Northern Ocean ; after Aktedi 



and Gbonow. 

 Gyclopterus lineatus, Lepechin, Nov. Comm. Petropol., xvill, 1774, 522, White Sea. 

 Liparis liparis, CuviER,Eegue Anim., Ed. I, vol. 2, 227, 1817; G.\rman, Discoboli, 57, 1892. 

 Gobius sniyrnensis, Bonnatebre, Encycl., Icht., 66, 1788 ; after Lepechin. 

 Gyclopterus viusculvs, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 683, 1802, near Havre. 

 Liparis vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. Anna., 190, 1828; Gunther, Cat., in, 159; LtJTKEN, 

 Naturh. Foren. Yidensk. Meddels, 1860 and 1861, 243 ; Collett, Norges Fiake, 1875, 65 ; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 742, 1883. 

 Liparis communis, Sabine, App. Parry's Voy., 1824. 

 Liparis harhatus, Ekstrom, Vet. Ak. Handl., 168, pi. 5, 1832 (D. 32, A. 32, C. 9, perhaps a 



different species) . 

 Liparis ophidoides, Swainson, Nat. Hi.st. Fishes, ii, 339, 1839. 



Liparis lineatm muUistriatus, Lutken, Naturh. Foreu. Vids., 1861, pi. 7 (striped example). 

 Liparis stellatus. Malm., Fcirh. Skand., Naturh., 1865. 



Liparis lineatus with variations, assimilis, stellatus, subfuscus, scorpioides mixtus, deco- 

 rus, scriptus, lineatus, arcticus, and /m«cm« Collett ; Vid. Selsk.,F6rh., Christ. 1,41. 



2450. UPAEIS CYCLOPUS, Giinther. 



Head 4^^; deptb 41. D. 34; A. 29; pectoral 30; caudal 12. Body 

 much depressed and rather broad anteriorly, deep and much compressed 

 posteriorly; head i longer than broad and i broader than deep. Flesh 

 much more firm and the skin less lax than in most species of Liparis. 

 Opercles with a rather strong spine concealed by the skin ; mouth rather 

 large, terminal; jaws subequal; teeth small, tricusi)id, in broad bands; 

 eye small, 6 in head ; snout 3, tlattish and broad above ; interorbital space 

 4f in head; ventral disk oval, 2^ in head, its anterior edge + the length of 

 the eye behind postorbital margin; gill opening moderate, 3^^ in head, 

 extending downward to the third or fourth ray of pectoral. Dorsal fin 

 low, continuous, not joined to caudal, beginning slightly before anal, on 

 a vertical with vent ; vent midway between edge of ventral disk and front 

 of anal. Pectoral fin emarginate, the upper lobe IHn head, the lower 2, 

 the shortest intervening rays 3. Anal long and low, barely joined to cau- 

 dal. Caudal U in head. Color olivaceous, darker above; body and pec- 

 toral fin finely speckled with olive brown; fins dotted; bases of the fins 

 paler than their tips; belly white. Bering sea to Puget Sound, not com- 

 mon; our description from two specimens 4^ inches long, in excellent 



* Garman gives detailed synonymy of this species in Discoboli, 57, 1892. 



