742 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
1134. L,. arcticsi Gill. 
Uniform dark riisty-brown or chestnut. Snout rather iiigh and 
decnrved; interorbital space 3 in head; forehead depressed; anterior 
nostrils simple, posterior tubular. Vertical lins confluent; caudal con- 
vex, 7 in total length; pectoral 5^; ventral disk 10. Head 4 in total, 
its width 0.1; depth D. 42; A. 34; C. 11; P. 33. Port Poulke, 
Ureenland. {Gill.) 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 191.) 
1135. L. fuiiicata Reiuh. 
Yellowish, mottled with brownish. Eye nearly 3 in snout or inter- 
orbital siiace; posterior nostril not tubular; psendobrauchite reduced 
to two lamelhe; vertical fins continuous; anal beginning below tenth 
dorsal ray; ventral disk longer than broad, half length of head; skin 
thin, loose. D. 42; A. 34; C. 12; P.34. Coasts of Greenland. {Gim- 
ther.) 
(Liparis ianicata Ri^mharM, Overs. Kong. Dauske Videiisk. Selsk. vi, cxi, 1836, “D. 
39; A. 33; P. 30; C. 14”: Lipavh fahnoil Kroyer, Nalurh. Tidsskr. ii, 274, 1847 : Lijjaris 
t'abricii Giiutlier, iii, 161; Liparin fabncii Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 192.) 
1136. L>. liaeafa (Lepechin) Kroyer. 
Yellowish, stri])ed with dark brown or purplish ; the color very vari- 
able. Body thick, covered with thin, loose, slippery skin; head obtuse, 
the nape swollen ; snout broad, not depressed ;*]ips tbickish; ])OSterior 
nostril tubular; eye 7 in head; gill-oi)enings reduced to a vertical slit 
extending to upper part of root of pectoral; pseudobranchim obsolete; 
tail truncate at base of caudal. Dorsal and anal fins united with the 
caudal; ventral disk rather longer than broad, half length of head, its 
margin with about 13 papilhe. Head 4; depth 34. D. 33; A. 28; P. 
.H; C. 13. L. 5 inches. ISTorthern Europe and America, south to Cai)e 
Cod. 
{Cuclopierna Jiparis L. SysT. Nat. i, 414 : Cydopterus lineatus Lepechiu, Nov. Comm. 
Petropol. xviii, 522: Liparis vidgaris Giinthef, ii, 159; Liitkeii, Naturh. Poren. Vidensk. 
Meddels. 1860 aud 1861, 243; Collett, Norges Fiske, 1875, 65.) 
1 137. rasiwla Goode & Bean. 
Color uniform whitish, tran.slucent in life. Body thick, siibcylin- 
drical anteriorly, rapidly tapering to the tail; skin thick, lax; snout 
broad, with prominent vertical i)rofile, its length 4 in head; maxillary 
3 in head, not reaching front of orbit; ventral disk nearly round, its 
length half its distance from snout. Head 4; depth 4. Pectoral 3. 
