"""Uo'."'] PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 365 



The head is contained slightly more than four times in the total length, and equals 

 the height and width of the body. The iuterorbital space is equal to the distance 

 from the eye to point of the operculum. The dorsal and anal fins are covered by a 

 thick skin anteriorly, the rays being distinctly seen only as they approach the caudal 

 fin, to which both dorsal and anal are united. Color in life was deep yellow ; in alcohol 

 it is of a uniform light brown.* 



The structure of the pectorals is not made knowu. Professor Piit- 

 iiam promised that "this species will be fully illustrated and de- 

 scribed in the Catalogue of the Agassiz Collection of Fishes," but this 

 great work has not yet been published. 



In 1SS5, Prof. J. G. Fischer made known a Liparidid from South Geor- 

 gia (54° 31 S.) under the name Liparis 8teineni,\ erroneously deeming 

 it to be the first found of the Discoboli in antarctic waters.| 



Professor Fischer es[)ecially described the pectorals as destitute of 

 the emargination manifest in the typical species, and the confluence of 

 the vertical fins was also described. § 



In 1888, Prof. Leon Yaillant added a third nominal species of Liparidid 

 to the Antarctic fauna under the name EnantioUparis palUdns', the 

 specimens described were obtained at Orange Bay, Patagonia.|l 



The genus EnantioUparis was differentiated from Liparis on account 

 of the continuous vertical fins and the almost entire pectorals.** Be- 

 sides the E. imllidus^ E. Steineni (— Liparis Steineni Fischer) was 

 recognized. 



It is possible that the three species of LJparididce so far found in the 

 Antarctic Seas are merely nominal, and may be eventually ascertained 

 to belong to one and the same species, which must then be called Enan- 

 tioUparis antarcticus. In view of the other two Liparidids having the 

 pectorals nearly entire, suspicion at least may be entertained that the 

 species described by Putnam has the same structure, and that the de- 

 scriber overlooked it or deferred the description to another time.tt 



Another supposed cyclopteroidean of another family has been attribu- 



* Notes on Liparis and Cijclopterus. By F. W. Putnam. <;Proc. A. A. A. S., v. 22, p. 

 3;]9, 1874. 



t (Jber Fi-scho voa Siid-Geor.Ljien. <^.T;ihrb. Hamburg, wissensch. Anst., v. 2, p. 63, 

 1885. 



t Die erste in autarktischen Gewiisseru aufgefundene Form aus dor Familieder 

 Discoboli, in anffalleuder Weise mit ihreu nordischen Verwandten ilbcreiustimt- 

 mend. — Fischer. 



^ Eineeigeutliche Einbuchtung am Randedieser Flosse, wie bei andereen Arteu, ist 

 nicht vorhanden, doch sind die vier nntersten Stralen liber die Flossenhaut hinaus 

 veriiingert, uud uamentlich der erst derselben reicht weit iiber die nachst obereu 

 Stralen nach hinten, wodurch allerdings der Anschein eines Einsclinittes im Hinter- 

 rande der Flosse entsteht. — Fischer, o. c, p. 64. 



II Mission scieutifique du Cap Horn, 188'2-188:i. Tome vi, Zoologie— Poissous. Par 

 Leon Vaillant, 1888 (p. C. 'J2). 



** lAparidihus persimilis, nisi inqyares jyiiina' coiitiiiua; sunt et radii inferiores liberipecto- 

 ralibus hand reperiuntur. — Faillant, o. c, n. 2'2. 



tt The pertinence of L. avtarctica to Enantoliparis has now been determined by the 

 present writer by examination of the type. 



