740 CONTKIUUTIOXS TO iXORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
isiil beginning’ over iiectornl; anal under ninth dorsal ray. Head Gg; 
depth oi. I), y, G2; A. 54; C. G ; P. 23. L. 5 inches. Deep "svater ofl 
the coast of Phode Island; lately dredged by the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission. 
(Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1830, 478.) 
393.— CAKE PKOC T US Krdyer. 
(Krdycr, Naturh. Tidsskr. i, 257, 1802: ty])G Lijxiris reinhardi Kroyer.) 
Body elongate, semi-transparent, covered with thin lax skin; montli 
oblique, the lower jaw projecting; teeth simple, hooked; ventral disk 
small, situated for forwards, under front of eye ; vent a little behind it, 
far in front of anal tin. (xa/ju, head; -pio/.ro^^ vent.) 
1130. C. geSatinosns (Pallas) Kroyer. 
Pose-colored; vertical fins violet; gill-cavity black. Yentral disk very 
small, snpitorted by a bihimellate cartilage descending from the throat; 
vertical fins continuous. Body oblong, compressed, .semi-transparent, 
soft, and gelatinous; head thick, flat above; cleft of mouth nearly ver- 
tical, as in Uranoscnpus ; a series of pores along upper lip; jaws, palate, 
and pharynx rough with teeth; skeleton very weak. D. more than 50; 
A. about 45; C. G; P. 30; coeca 48; vertebrie G4. [Gunther.) Alaska 
and Kamtschatka; Greenland. 
{CucJopterm gelatiriosus Pallas, Spicilegia, vii, 19, 1709: Liparis (jelathwsus Giutiher, 
iii, 163? f Liparis gelalinosus Reiiili. Oversigt, &c. 1844, Ixxvii: Liparis rcinhart^ 
Killy er, Naturli. Tids.skr. i, 252: t Careproctna reinhardi Kroyer, 1. c., 257, the Green- 
laud form, tlumglit by Ur. Kroyer to be differe'ut from C. fjelatinosus.) 
391.— EIPARIS Linmeus. 
Sea- Snail ft. 
(.\rtedi; Linmeus, Syst. Nat.: type Cgclopterus liparis h.) 
Body rather elongate, covered with smooth skin, which is usually 
freely movable; head short, flattened above; mouth horizontal, the 
lower jaw included; teeth in several series, usually tricuspid; maxil- 
lary covered by skin of preorbital region; ventral disk well developed, 
on the breast, its front below or behind the middle of the head ; vent 
well behind the head, about midway between sneking-disk and anal fiu. 
Dorsal fin continuous or divided, its si)ines hardly differentiated; dorsal 
fiu free from caudal or not; pectoral einargiuate, some of the lower rays 
produced; vertical fins enveloped in skin. INorthern seas (one species 
known from Chili). [Xrzapd^, sleek-skinned, shining.) 
«. Dorsal fin continuous. (Lqmris.) 
b. Dorsal fin connected 'witb tbe caudal. 
