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locality 'Off Block Island, from a pecten/ that may be positively identi- 

 fied, bears peculiar markings : From the tip of the -snout a white line 

 passes above the eye to meet its fellow of the opposite side at the begin- 

 ning of the dorsal, which is white ; and a white spot as large as the orbit 

 extends downward and slightly backward from the eye. These marks 

 are very distinct, and they give the specimen quite a different appear- 

 ance from that of another of the same size and origin, uniform in colora- 

 tion." (Garman.) (Eu.) 



Liparis nostras, WILLUGHBY, Hist. Pise., App., 17, 1686, based on a specimen taken Sep- 

 tember 15, 1685, by Dr. Johnson. 



Liparis* AETBDI, Descr. Spec. Pise., 117, 1738, after WILLUGHBY. 

 Liparis cyclogaster, GRONOW, Mus., 157, 1768. 

 Cyclopterus liparis, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, 1, 414, 1766, Northern Ocean ; after ARTEDI 



and GRONOW. 



Cyclopterus Uneatus, LEPECHIN, Nov. Cornm. Petropol., xvm, 1774, 522, White Sea. 

 Liparis liparis, CuviER,Regne Anim., Ed. T, vol. 2, 227, 1817; GARMAN, Discoboli, 57, 1892. 

 Gobius smyrnensis, BONNATERRE, Encycl., Icht., 66, 1788 ; after LEPECHIN. 

 Cyclopterus tnusculus, LACEPEDB, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 683, 1802, near Havre. 

 Liparis vulgaris, FLEMING, Brit. Anim., 190, 1828; GUNTHER, Cat., in, 159; LUTKEN, 

 Naturh. Foren. Videusk. Meddels, 1860 and 1861, 243 ; COLLETT, Norges Fiske, 1875, 65 ; 

 JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 742, 1883. 

 Liparis communis, SABINE, App. Parry's Voy., 1824. 

 Liparis barbatus, EKSTKOM, Vet. Ak. Handl., 168, pi. 5, 1832 (D. 32, A. 32, C. 9, perhaps a 



different species) . 



Liparis ophidoides, SWAINSON, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 339, 1839. 



Liparis lineatus multistriatus, LUTKEN, Naturh. Foren. Vids., 1861, pi. 7 (striped example). 

 Liparis stellatus, MALM.,Forh. Skand., Naturh., 1865. 



Liparis lineatus with variations, assimilis, stellatus, subfuscus, scorpioides mixtus, deco- 

 rus, scriptus, lineatus, arcticus, and fuscus COLLETT; Vid. Selsk.,Forh., Christ. 1,41. 



2450. LIPARIS CYCLOPUS, Giinther. 



Head 4; depth 4-J-. D. 34; A. 29; pectoral 30; candal 12. Body 

 much depressed and rather broad anteriorly, deep and much compressed 

 posteriorly; head longer than hroad and broader than deep. Flesh 

 much more firm and the skin less lax than in most species of Liparis. 

 Opercles with a rather strong spine concealed by the skin ; mouth rather 

 large, terminal; jaws subequal; teeth small, tricuspid, in broad bands; 

 eye small, 6 in head; snout 3, flattish and broad above; interorbital space 

 4f in head; ventral disk oval, 2 in head, its anterior edge i the length of 

 the eye behind postorbital margin; gill opening moderate, 3 in head, 

 extending downward to the third or fourth ray of pectoral. Dorsal fin 

 low, continuous, not joined to caudal, beginning slightly before anal, on 

 a vertical with vent; vent midway between edge of ventral disk and front 

 of anal. Pectoral fin emarginate, the upper lobe If in head, the lower 2, 

 the shortest intervening rays 3. Anal long and low, barely joined to cau- 

 dal. Caudal !$ in head. Color olivaceous, darker above; body and pec- 

 toral fin finely speckled with olive brown ; fins dotted ; bases of the fins 

 paler than their tips; belly white. Bering sea to Puget Sound, not com- 

 mon; our description from two specimens 4 inches long, in excellent 



* Garman gives detailed synonymy of this species in Discoboli, 57, 1892. 



