20 THE DISCOBOLI. 



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 matter lies in thin plates, often forming cells and chambers similar to those 



to be noticed in the bones of Lophius. The third suborbital is thin and 



broadens as it extends back to the preopercle. The interopercle is more 



blade-like than in the Liparidida?. On one genus the pores around the 



mouth are tubular, and form barbels. 



When Bonaparte, 1831, first used the family name Ct/clopteridce, he in- 

 cluded Liparis with the Lumps. In the present writing the family is made 

 up of Giinther's subfamily of 1861, Cyclopterina, with the addition of a genus 

 of recent discovery, first characterized in these pages. 



GENERA AND SPECIES OF CYCLOPTERID^. 



Barbels none ; disk anterior, sub-cephalic, 

 larger tubercles in rows, separated, 

 larger tubercles not in rows, crowded, 

 shaped more like the Lump, 

 shaped more like a Diodon, 

 Barbels present; disk central, subabdominal, 

 lateral tubercles minute, 



CYCLOPTERUS. 



Body more or less compressed toward the back, somewhat triangular in 

 a transverse section at the first dorsal, covered with conical, rough, bony 

 tubercles ; head short, thick, subquadrangular in a cross section ; snout 

 blunt, rounded ; mouth anterior, opening slightly upward ; teeth simple, 

 small, arranged in a band ; eye moderate, lateral ; dorsals two ; caudal dis- 

 tinct; disk moderately large, anterior. On the species properly belonging 

 to Cycloptcnis, the first dorsal fin with age becomes completely hidden by the 

 skin, and the larger tubercles of the Hanks, though in regular series, have 

 a scattered appearance. On the larger specimens of the species belonging 

 to Eumicrotrcmits the large tubercles are very irregularly disposed and close 

 together. The history of Cyclopterus as a genus begins with Linne. Flem- 

 ing, 1822, says of it: '-This genus has been subdivided into (1) Cyclopterus, 

 having the body furnished with ridges of tubercles, as C. lumpus, and 

 (2) Leparis, having the body smooth, as L. vulgaris and Montagui" This 

 subdivision left the genus as recognized at present. 



