156 TELEOSTEL: ACANTHOPTERI, — XX, 
form together a group or suborder called by Professor Cope the 
ScYPHOBRANCHIL. 
Famity LXXXI. URANOSCOPIDAI, (Tue Srar- 
GAZERS.) 
Body elongate, tapering behind; scales usually small, cycloid; 
lateral line mostly obsolete. Head cuboid, usually mailed above 
and on cheeks. Eyes small, on front of top of head. Mouth verti- 
cal, the lower jaw prominent, the lips mostly fringed; teeth small ; 
premaxillaries protractile; maxillary broad, simple, not concealed 
by preorbital. Gill openings very wide, the membranes free; gills 
3}, a small slit behind the last. Pseudobranchie present. Spinous 
D. very short, the fin long; A. long; P. with broad oblique base; 
V. jugular, J, 5. No air-bladder. Carnivorous fishes of the shores 
in warm regions. Genera about 7; species 20. (odpavds, sky; 
oxorréa, to look.) 
a. Dorsal fins two; head without spines. 
6. Head above entirely covered by a rugose coat of mail; a small barbel 
in mouth, before tongue. . . omer . AsrRoscorus, 201. 
6b. Head ahowe with a Y-shaped bony projection extending forward from 
occipital region; on each side of this shield a trapezoida] naked area; 
mouth without tentacle... . . . . . .« . UpsiLonpHorus, 202, 
201. ASTROSCOPUS Brevoort. (dorpov, star ; oxoméw, to 
look.) 
432. A. anoplos (Cuv. & Val.). Jet black above and on lower 
jaw and 1st D.; belly and fins pale; scales minute. Head 24; depth 
3}. D.IV-14. A. 13. L. 23. N.Y. to Key West. (avomos, 
unarmed.) 
202, UPSILONPHORUS Gill. (éWirdv, Y; Popéw, to bear, 
from the bones on top of head.) 
483. U. y-greecum (Cuv. & Val.) Brownish, everywhere finely 
spotted with white ; a dark horizontal band on tail; C. with length- 
wise stripes. Head 2}; depth 3}. D. IV~-13. A.12. Lat. L 
113. L.10. N.J.,S. 
Famity LXXXII. GOBIIDAS. (Tue Gosizs.) 
Body oblong or elongate, variously naked or scaly; no lateral 
line; mouth and teeth various; premaxillary protractile ; suborbital 
without bony stay; skin of head covering eyes; opercles mostly un- 
armed; pseudobranchie present; gills 4; gill membranes united 
with the isthmus; spinous dorsal little developed, of 2 to 8 flexible 
spines; anal without spine; V. I, 5, close together or usually fully 
united into a sort of sucking disk; C. convex; anal papilla evident. 
