NATURAL HISTORY. xlvii 



2.— LIPARIS COMiMUNIS. 



LU'ARIS COMMUNIS.— &6 ; in App. to Parry's Ut Voyage— -p. ccxii. 

 CYCLOFTERUS LIPARIS.— iatrpWc, Hist. Nat. Poissons— vol ii., p. G9. 



Fab : Faun, Grwnt. — p. 135, var. ]. 



B/uc/i.— pi. 123, fig. 3. Ross, App. to Parry's Polar Voy. — p. 109. 

 CVCLOPTERLS GELATINOSUS '—Pallas, SpicU. Zoot.~vol. vii., p. 21, pi 3, fig. 1. 



Was found in forapaiiy with the preceding, but less numerous; it e.xtends its range 

 to the highest northern latitudes, having been found at Spitzbergen, Melville Island, 

 Kamschatka, and in almost every part of the Arctic Seas that has been visited by 

 the late Expeditions of Discovery. 



Several specimens were obtained by us near Felix Harbour, all of which belong to 

 the first variety of this species, noticed by Otho Fabricius, loc. cit., and may eventually 

 prove to be a distinct species, although the descriptions of authors and figures quoted 

 may equally apply to both varieties, except in the size, and in the absence of the two 

 cirrhi in the upper lip, which are wanting in the individual under consideration. 



The average length of our variety, from the tip of the snout to the insertion ol the 

 tail, is somewhat more than three inches, whilst that of the larger variety, mentioned 

 by Fabricius, is often a foot, and by other authors said to attain sixteen to eio-hteen 

 inches. 



The sucking apparatus consists of thirteen tubercles, arranged in a circular fbrm. 

 about one-third of an inch in diameter, and placed exactly between the snout and 

 the vent. 



3.— OPHIDIUM PARRII. 



OPHIDIUM PARRII.— ilosiJ, App. to Parry's U Voyage— p. 1C9. 



Ross, App. to Parry's Polar Voyage — p. 199. 



This species, which was discovered several years ago in Prince Regents 

 Inlet, during Sir Edw^ard Parry's third voyage to the Arctic Seas, belongs to 



