14 THE DISCOBOLI. 



established the subfamily Cyclopterini, an apparent equivalent of the family 

 itself. Les Chomlrostts Pteroiiodes of Dumeril, 1856, were made up of 

 Lepadogaster, Cyclogaster, Gobiesox, Cyclopterus, Chironectes, Lopliius, 

 and Malthea. Bleeker, 1859, adopted the order Cyclopteri, and placed 

 within it the families Cy dopier oidei, with the single genus Cyclopterus, and 

 the Gohiesocioidei, with Gobiesox and its properly related allies, and also 

 including Liparis. Giinther, 1861, made Liparis the typical genus of his 

 subfamily Liparidina, which with the Cyclopterina constituted the family 

 Discoboli. Gill, 1861, did not differ in regard to the contents of the 

 family, but named it (JyclopteroidcB. His subfamily names were Cyclop- 

 terinse and Liparinaa ; of the latter he made Liparidime in 1864, and 

 Liparidid* in 1872, on raising it to family rank. In Gill's Gobiesocoidea, 

 1872, he included the Gobiesocidte, the Liparididai, and the CyclopteridaB. 

 The Cycloptcroidea of Gill, 1873, contained only the Cyclopteridte and the 

 LiparididsB, the Discoboli of Giinther. 



In the present revision the family Cyclopteridaa is restricted to the 

 genera Cyclopterus, Eumicrotremus, and Cyclopteroides, the rank of the 

 second being somewhat doubtful. Cijchptcnis of Linne, 1735, was estab- 

 lished on the common Lump of the North Atlantic. Eumicrotremus of 

 Gill, 1864, was based on C. spinosus Fabr., an Arctic and deep-sea form. 

 C. orUs Gthr. belongs with this species; it is obtained in the North 

 Pacific. Cijdopteroides is a new genus, characterized below, from the 

 North Pacific. 



Liparopsidce. — This family is here arranged for a couple of genera, at 

 present known from the North Pacific, Cyclopterichthys and Liparops. 

 CijdopkricMhtjs was characterized by Steindachner, 1881, from what he 

 took to be a new species, C. glaber (not C. glaber from Steller, 1831), but 

 which was identified by others with C. vcniricosus of Pallas, 1769. Liparops 

 is based on Cyclopterus Stelleri of Pallas, 1831, the C. glaber of Steller's 

 manuscript. 



Discoboli. — Cuvier, 1817, brought together Lepadogaster, Gobiesox, 

 Cyclopterus, Liparis, Echeneis, and Ophicephalus in a group to which 

 he gave the name Discoboles. At the hand of Latreille, 1825, the name 

 was written Discobola, and at that of Griffith, 1?34, it became Discoboli. 

 The division C'/dopodi of J. Miiller, 1843, contained the following: "die 



