162 MSCOBOLT. 



d. Adult. Salcombe Bay (Devonshire). Museum Leach. 



e. Adult. Mount Edgecombe (Devonshire). Museum Leach. 

 f-h. Adult and half-grown : not good state. Polperro. Presented 



by J. Couch, Esq. 

 i, k-l. Adult. English coast. 



Head broad, trunk thick, tail compressed : all enveloped in an 

 unctuous, thin, loose skin. The greatest depth of the body, on the 

 middle of the abdomen, is about one-fifth of the total length, the 

 length of the head one-fourth. The head is rather fiat siiperiorly, 

 the nape of the neck being but slightly prominent ; the snout is very 

 broad, not depressed, and of mbderate longitudinal extent ; the cleft 

 of the mouth is horizontal, not extending to the vertical from the 

 anterior margin of the eye, with rather thick lips and with the upper 

 jaw somewhat longer than the lower. Both jaws are armed with a 

 broad band of villiform teeth. Tongue very broad, thick, obtuse. 

 The eye is small, lateral, but interfering with the upper profile of the 

 head ; its diameter is one-ninth of the length of the head, and less 

 than one-half of the length of the snout or of the width of the inter- 

 orbital space. The nostril is situated nearer to the eye than to the 

 upper lip. The gill-openings are reduced to a vertical slit, which 

 extends downwards on the upper part of the root of the pectoral, 

 the remainder of the gill-membranes being united with the base of 

 the pectorals and with the isthmus. Three gills and a half ; pseudo- 

 branchiae none. 



The pectoral fins are very broad, extending downwards and for- 

 wards under the throat ; their extremity does not reach to the ver- 

 tical from the anal fin. The six lower raj's are somewhat longer 

 than the next preceding ones, producing a slight notch in the mar- 

 gin of the fin. The six rays which constitute the base of the ven- 

 tral disk may be easily distinguished ; the disk is surrounded by 

 tliii'teen soft and flat papillae, which may be compared to the sole of 

 the foot of the higher animals. The dorsal fin commences above the 

 middle of the pectoral ; it is low anteriorly, gradually becoming- 

 higher towards the caudal fin, from which it is separated by a short 

 interspace. Caudal of moderate length, truncated. The anal fin 

 commences below the seventh dorsal ray, and is lower than the 

 dorsal ; its last ray is fastened to the back of the tail by a membrane. 



The colour is yellowish, the vertical fins being somewhat brighter, 

 with a blackish shade towards the margins. 



This species attains to a size of 3 inches. 



4. Liparis cally^don. 



Cyclopterus callyodon, PalL Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. lii. p. 75. 



B. 6. D. 33. A. 24. C. 15. 



Dorsal and anal fins continued nearly to the base of the caudal. 

 Coast of Kamtschatka. 



Pallas gives the following particulars of this species : — 



The teeth have three distinct lobes ; a slender bone from the eye 



