744 CONTEir-UTIONS TO NORTH xV^MERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
from a small esam])le takeu at Monterey, perhaps belougiiig- to a 
different species.) 
Lijyaris cyclopus* GiinHier, ii, 1G3, 1801.) 
aa. Dorsal lin eiuargiiiate, the spines separated from the soft rays; skin firm. (NeoU- 
par/st Steiud.) 
till. L.. Biiiicosa Ayres. 
Kose-red or brownish, unspotted. Bodj’ strongly compressed, the 
back somewhat elevated, not much depressed forwards, the head not 
wider than deep, longer than in L. jmichella; mouth rather large, 
terminal, the jaws equal when closed; teeth blnnily tricuspid, the 
band in upper jaw widest; eyes small; skin ffrm, thick, little movable. 
Dorsal fin separated into two parts by a deep emargiuation; second 
dorsal rather low, entirely free from caudal; anal nearly free from 
(•audal; pectorals moderate; ventral disk oval, 2^ in head; vent at 
posterior fourth of i)ectorals; end of tail truncate. Head 4^; depth 
about 4. D. VII, 2(); A. 20; C. 10; P. 31. L. 0 inches. Coast of Cali- 
fornia; rare. 
{Lijniris mucosus Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 24, 1855: Liparis mucosus Giiu- 
ther, iii, .559; Steiudachuer, Ichth. Beitriige, iii, 54, 1875.) 
Family CX — CYCLOPTERID^. 
{The Lump Suciccrs.) 
Body short and thick, more or less elevated, covered with a thick 
skin, which is smooth, tubercular, or spinous; head short and thick; 
suborbital stay present, thin and ffattish; mouth small, terminal; jaws 
Avith bauds of slender teeth; no teeth on vomer or palatines; gill- 
openings narrow, restricted to the sides, the membranes being broadly 
joined to the isthmus and shoulder girdle; branchiostegals 0; dorsal 
tin long, the anterior i)art of Ilexible spines, which, in the adult, are 
sometimes hidden by a fleshy hump , sometimes entirely wanting ; 
soft dorsal small, opposite the anal, and similar to it; caudal lin 
rounded, free from the dorsal and anal; ventrals thoracic, rudimentary, 
forming the bony center of a sucking-disk; pectorals short, placed low, 
* In Dr. Giiuthcr’s type of L. cyclopus, from Esquimanlf Harbor, Hie fin-formula is 
D. 35; A. .30; C. 12; the ventral disk is said to be less than balf the length of the 
head, and the dorsal is said to begin behind the vent. The species is said to agree 
.‘in nearly every respect with L. vulgaris” (liiicata). Onr specimen is mnch neaier 
L. mucosa. 
t Steiudachuer, Ichth. Beitriige, iii, 54, 1875: tyiie Liparis mucosus Ayres, (veoo, 
new; Liparis.) 
