I 



111. GOBIESOCID^. 747 



to Puget Sound and Muiue. Here described from an Alaskan specimen 

 of " C. orbis.^^ 



(Miillcr, Prodr. Zool. Daii. ix, 1777; Fabriciiis, Fauna Grcenlaudica, 1780, 134; Ciin- 

 tlicr, iii, 157 : Cijclopivruis orhis Giinther, iii, 158, 1861, speciincii from V'ancouvers Islaud.) 



aa. Dorsal spines cuvi'loix'd in a llesby hump iu adult; gill-oi)cnings larger; ventral 

 disk small. ( < 'ijfloptcrus. ) 



1145. C. lUBBaB»SBS L. — Lnmp-Sucker; Lump-fish. * 



Olivaceous, with darker marking's; skin punctnlate. Head lieavy, 



almost round; intcrorbital space very wide, flattisli; maxillary reaching 



to or slightly beyond front of eye; gill-openings extending from level of 



ui)per margin of eye to opposite middle of base of pectorals; length of 



gill-opening about equal to base of pectoral, three-fifths length of head, 



e<inal to length of ventral disk; a fleshy hump on the back, which, in 



the adult, covers the spinous dorsal; skin with small tubercles, and 



about 7 rows of larger spinous i)lates ; a median dorsal row, which 



divides and forms two series behind the hmnp; two lateral rows, of 



which the lower has larger plates; one abdominal row on each side. 



Head 3^; depth 2. D. about VII-IO; A. 10. North Atlantic; rather 



common on the coasts of America and Euro[)e. 



(LiuniEus, Syst. Nat.; Giinther, iii, 153: Lintipus an[iloriim'De]iay, N. Y. Fauna, Fish. 

 305.) 



Family CXI— GOBIESOCID^. 



Body rather elongate, broad and depressed in front, covered by 

 smooth, naked skin; mouth moderate; ui)per jaw ])rotractile; teeth 

 usually rather strong, the anterior conical or incisor-like; posterior 

 canines sometimes present ; no bony stay from suborbital across 

 cheeks; oi)ercle reduced to a snnill spine-like projection concealed in 

 the skin, behind angle of the large preopercle; i)sen<lobranchi<r, small 

 or wanting; gills 3 or 2.}; gill-membranes broadly united, free or 

 united to the istiimus; dorsal tin on the ])osterior part of the body, 

 opposite to the anal and similar to it, both tins without spines; ventral 

 tins wide apart, each with one concealed sjune and 4 or 5 soft rays. 

 Between and behind the ventrals is a large sucking-disk, the ventrals 

 usually forming ])art" of it. This sucking-disk, which is diiferent in 

 structure from that of Gyclopterus and JAjniris, is thus described by 

 J)r. Giinther: 



''The whole disk is exceedingly large. subi-ircHlar, longer than broad, 

 its length being (often) one third of the whole length of the lish. The 



