76 THE DISCOBOLI. 



as the other. There are twenty-six stout and pointed caica. The length 

 of the intestine is about two thirds of the entire length of the specimen ; 

 the i-ectuni is the wider fourth of the intestine. A worm and some Crustacea 

 were found in the stomach, but nothing could be seen that resembled vege- 

 table matter. The ovaries lie behind the middle of the chamber ; they unite 

 posteriorly. Forward the kidneys are larger, near the middle of the cavity 

 they coalesce. The bladder is small and simple. 



Brain. — The brain is narrow and long. Compared with that of L. pul- 

 chellus, Plate VIII. Fig. 4, the olfactory nerves are longer and the hemi- 

 sjjheres smaller. In C. major the optic lobes are small ; they are equal in 

 size to the cerebellum, and larger than the hemispheres. At each side of the 

 cerebellum a rather wide margin of the brain is exposed, and a very little 

 of the sinus is covered ; behind the sinus are two prominent lobes, very 

 much as in L. pulchellus. 



Careproctus gelatinosus. 



Cydopterus gelatinosus Pall., 1769, Spicil. Zool., VII. 19, tab. iii. fig. 1, Anat. fig. 2-6, — 1831, 

 Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat., III. 74; Bonnat., 1788, Ichthyol., 28; Walb., 1792, Art. Gen. Pise, 488; LaC, 

 1800, Hist. Poiss., II. 62; Bl. Schn., 1801, Syst., 199; Soiin., 1803, Hist. Poiss., V. 262; Shaw, 1804, 

 Gen. Zool., V. 293 ; Turton, 1806, Syst. Nat. Linn., I. 906. 



Liparis (/elatimsus Cnv., 1817, K. An., 11. 227,-1829, R. An., II. 346,-1836, R. An., I. 573,— 

 1836-50, R. An., ed. ill., 311; Wilson, 1838, Ichth. in Encycl. Biit.; Stor., 1846, Synops. Fish. N. Anier., 

 4S3; Gthr., 1861, Cat, III. 103; Gill, 1861, Cat. Fish. E. Coast U. S., 47; Coll., 1880, Norsk. Nord- 

 Exp., Fi.ske. 



Careproctus gelatinosus Kroy., 1862, Nat. Tidsskr., 3 R, 1 B, 1861-63, 254; J. & G., 1882, Bull. 16 

 U. S. Mas., 740; Jor. 1887, Rep. U. S. F. Comm., 1885, 903. 



Careproctus spectrum Bean, 1890, Pr. U. S. Mus., XIII. 40. 



D. 50+ ; 45 (Pallas). D. 57 ; A. 47 (Bean). 



" Magnitudo sesquipedalis ; forma gracillima inter eongeneres. Corpus 

 oblongum, compre.ssum, versus caput crassiusculum, postice sensim adtenua- 

 tum, compressius et planilaterum. Cutis molli.ssima, alepidota, glabra. Sub- 

 stantia totius piscis subdiaphana, mollissima, fluxa, iners, levissimo tactu, 

 vel concussione, tota gelatinge instar contremiscens. Caput crassum, sub- 

 quadratulum, depressius, vertice planiusculo, ad orbitas convexo; versus 

 nares sensim declivi. Orl)ita3 oculique cute communi, ,sed adtenuatiore 

 obducta. Irides livido-virescentes, circulo coerulescente cincta). PupillaB 

 axis sursum directa. Nares inter oris marginem et oculos mediae, simpliccs, 

 tubulo cutaceo, arrecto, 1 lin. longitudine, prominentes, limboque rubentes. 

 Inter nares et labiorum marginem utrinque pori duo, per quos immissus 



