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tapering to a long sharp point. Pectoral reaching far behind vent, not 

 reaching the anal, broadly rounded on the hinder margin, notched at the 

 sides of the disk, some anterior rays long and projecting as a fringe. Disk 

 subround, papillary portion broader than long, and about two thirds as long 

 as the head. Vent close to the posterior border of the disk, the width of 

 the latter equalling its distance from the anal fin. The specimen described 

 is one and one half inches in entire length. 



Color light brownish, probably yellowish or reddish in life. 



No. 12,972 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; collected by the 

 Hassler Expedition at Eden Harbor, in the southern part of South America. 



CARELIPARIS. 



Liparis Agassizii. 



Plates I.-III. 



Cyclopterus liparis Bloch, 1785, Ausland. Fische, I. 48, pi. cxxiii. figs. 3, 4; Bonnat., 1788, Tabl. 

 Encycl. et Method., Ichthyol., pi. 20, fig. 67 (not text); Walb., 1792, Art. Gen. Pise, 489; Castel, 

 1801, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Bloch, VIII. 128, pi. 11, fig. 2; Sonnini, 1803, Hist. Poiss., V. 272; Shaw, 

 1804, Gen. Zool., V. 394, pi. 166, fig. 2; Turton, 1806, Syst. Nat. Linne, I. 906; Anslijn, 1828, Syst. 

 Beschr., IV. 68, pi. 65 (cop. BL). 



Liparis liparis Cuv., 1817, R. An., II. 227,-1829, R. An., II. 346,-1836, R. An., I. 573; Val., 

 1836-50, R. An., ed. illustr., Poiss., 310. (Bloch's example led to the inclusion of L. Agassizii with 

 L. liparis in these cases.) 



Liparis vulgaris Scliinz, 1836, Naturg. u. Abbild. der Fische, 258, pi. 86, fig. 1. 



Liparis Agassizii Putnam, 1874, Pr. A. A. A. S., 339. 



Liparis gibbus Bean, 1881, Pr. U. S. Mus., IV. 148, 247, 271 ; L. gibba J. & G., 1882, Bull. 16 U. S. 

 Mus. 741; Jor., 1S87, Rep. U. S. F. Comm., 1885, 903. 



B. 6 ; D. 41 (41-44) ; A. 33 (32-35) ; P. 38 (35-38) ; C. 12 ; Vert. 46. 



Body elongate, rather less inflated anteriorly than the other Liparids, 

 greatly compressed posteriorly. With the exception of the disk the appear- 

 ance is very much the same as that of a Cottoid. Total length two and 

 three fourths times the distance from snout to vent. The greatest width, 

 or the height, is contained about four and one half times, and the length of 

 the head more than four times, in the total length. Head moderately broad, 

 depressed anteriorly, slightly convex in transverse section through the fron- 

 tal region ; snout broad, blunt, rounded, convex, nearly four times the 

 diameter of the eye, one third of the length of the head. Mouth wide, 

 maxilla extending behind a vertical from the anterior border of the eye ; 

 upper lip complete, lower separated for only about half the distance from 

 the angle of the mouth to the middle. Teeth small, tricuspid, with slender 



