156 TELEOSTEI: AOANTHOPTEEI. — XX. 



form together a group or suborder called by Professor Cope the 

 scyphobranchii. 



Family LXXXI. URANOSCOPID^. (The Star- 

 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. • Pseudobranchise present. Spinous 

 D. very short, the fin long; A. long ; P. with broad oblique base; 

 V. jugular, 1, 5. No air-bladder. Carnivorous fishes of the shores 

 in warm regions. Genera about 7 ; species 20. (ovpavos, sky ; 

 aKonea, to look.) 



a. Dorsal fins two ; head without spines. 

 b. Head above entirely covered by a rugose coat of mail ; a small barbel 



in mouth, before tongue Astkoscopus, 201. 



bb. Head above with a Y-shaped bon}- projection extending forward from 

 occipital region; on each side of this shield a trapezoidal naked area; 

 mouth without tentacle Upsilohphobus, 202. 



201. ASTROSCOPUS Brevoort. (acrrpov, star ; a-Kcmea, to 

 look.) 



432. A. anoplos (Cuv. & Val.). Jet black above and on lower 

 jaw and 1st D.; belly and fins pale; scales minute. Head 2^; depth 

 3f D. IV-14. A. 13. L. 2f N. Y. to Key West. {avonXos, 

 unarmed.) 



202. UPSILONPHORUS Gill. (lyj^iUv, Y; (jiopca, to bear, 

 from the bones on top of head.) 



433. XT. y-graecum (Cuv. & Val.) Brownish, everywhere finely 

 spotted with white ; a dark horizontal band on taU; C. with length- 

 wise stripes. Head 2^; depth S}. D. IV -13. A. 12. Lat. 1. 

 113. L. 10. N. J., S. 



Family LXXXII. GOBIID^. (The Gobies.) 



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 ; pseudobranchise 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. 



