156 TELEOSTEI: ACANTHOPTERI. — XX. 
form together a group or suborder called by Professor Cope the 
ScyPHOBRANCHIL, 
Famity LXXXI. URANOSCOPIDA. (THE SrTAr- 
GAZERS. ) 
Body elongate, tapering behind; scales usually small, cycloid; 
lateral line mostly obsolete. Head cuboid, usually mailed above 
and on cheeks. Eyes small, on front of top of head. Mouth verti- 
cal, the lower jaw prominent, the lips mostly fringed; teeth small ; 
premaxillaries protractile; maxillary broad, simple, not concealed 
by preorbital. Gill openings very wide, the membranes free; gills 
34, a small slit behind the last. Pseudobranchiz present. Spinous 
D. very short, the fin long; A. long; P. with broad oblique base; 
V. jugular, 1, 5. No air-bladder. ‘Camivaram fishes of the shores 
in warm regions. Genera about 7; species 20. (ovpaves, sky ; 
aKorréw, to look.) 
a. Dorsal fins two; head without spines. 
b. Head above entirely covered by a rugose coat of mail; a small barbel 
in mouth, before tongue. . . . . AsTRoscopus, 201. 
6b. Head above with a Y-shaped bone Se ie extending forward from 
occipital region; on each side of this shield a trapezoidal naked area; 
mouth without tentacle... . . . . . . . UpsiLoNpHoRuS, 202. 
201. ASTROSCOPUS Brevoort. (dorpov, star ; oxomew, to 
look.) 
432. A. anoplos (Cuy. & Val.). Jet black above and on lower 
jaw and 1st D.; belly and fins pale; scales minute. Head 2}; depth 
31. D.IV-14. A. 13. L. 24. N.Y. to Key West. (avomdos, 
unarmed.) 
202. UPSILONPHORUS Gill. ° (éWirdv, Y; popéw, to bear, 
from the bones on top of head.) 
433. U. y-greecum (Cuv. & Val.) Brownish, everywhere finely 
spotted with white; a dark horizontal band on tail; C. with length- 
wise stripes. Head 2}; depth 33. D. IV-13. A.12. Lat. 1. 
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Famity LXXXII. GOBIIDA#. (THE Gosies.) 
Body oblong or elongate, variously naked or scaly; no lateral 
line; mouth and teeth various; premaxillary protractile ; suborbital 
without bony stay; skin of head covering eyes; opercles mostly un- 
armed; pseudobranchia present; gills 4; gill membranes united 
with the isthmus; spinous dorsal little developed, of 2 to 8 flexible 
spines; anal without spine; V. I, 5, close together or usually fully 
united into a sort of sucking disk; C. convex; anal papilla evident. 
