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XVI-URANOSCOPID^. 



ASTROSCOPUS, Brev. 



A. anoplus. 



Unarmed Uranoscope. 



Body cylindrical, without scales; liead large and liattencd; 

 'eyes large, vertical, close together. Back above greenish, 

 and, together with the extremity of the lower jaw, minute- 

 ly punctate with black. First dorsal lin blackish ; pectorals 

 greenish; the remaining tins white, tinged with yellow. — 

 Length, 2 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 4.1.12; P. 19; Y. 1.5; A. 12; C. IL 



Uranoscopus anoplos, Cuv. & Yal. VIII, p. 49;> : DeKay, 

 J^ew York Fauna, Fishes, p. 37, pi. 22, fig. G.k 



Astroscopus anoplus, Baird's Hep. 



Agnus anoplus, Guenther II, p. 229, 



Occurs occasionallv in the southern ])art of Chesapeake 

 Bay. 



CYCLOPTERUS, Artedi. 



C. lumpus. 



Common Lump-Fish, or Lump-Sucker. 



A remarkably thick and stout hsli, neaidy orbicular in out- 

 line, looking like a lump of gelatinous matter. The scale- 

 less skin is roughened by warts, forming three rows of lumps 

 or processes on each side. On the ridge of the back are 5 to 

 7 large, compressed warts, behind which is a deep oblique 

 fissure. These lumps or processes look like the plates on the 

 sides of a Sturgeon, but are not so hard or well defined. The 

 belly is broad and flat, with an eliptical organ formed by the 

 pectoral fins for adhering to other bodies. Back and sides 

 deep blue, thickly marked with small black elevations; belly 

 pale green and white. Length, 10 to 20 inches. 



Fin-rays:— D. 12; P. 20; A. 10; C. 11. 



C. lumpus, L. Syst. Nat. I, p. 414; Richards, Fauna Bor. 

 Amer. Fishes, p. 260. 



— aeruleus, Mitch. Lit. &: Phil. Soc. New York, I, p. 480, 

 ,pl. 2, fig. 7. 



In the ocean drains of Worcester county. 



