3g!2 LARGE-TOOTHED SUCKER. 



under parts, to the tail, are of a delicate sea-green, 

 with a silvery tinge on the cheeks, the pectoral fins, 

 and the part of the body next the tail : the iris is 

 likewise silvery, the pupil black : the fins and tail 

 terminate in a fine pale yellow. It ha^; been ob^ 

 served by Dr. Pallas that the Lump-Fish probably 

 exhibits this variety of splendid colours in its younger 

 state only, but Mr. Davies remarks that this ob- 

 servation does not hold good, (universally at least,) 

 since he has seen a specimen of smaller size than 

 the beautiful variety above described, which was 

 entirely of a brown colour. The pavonian variety 

 observed by Mr. Davies measured about six inches 

 in length, and about three and a half in breadth, 

 and Mr. D. is inclined to suppose that it does not 

 attain to the size of the common Lump-Fish. 



LARGE-TOOTHED SUCKER. 



Cyclopterus Dentex. C. cor pore nudo, capite inetmi glaherrimo, 

 pinnis sejunctis. Lin. Gmel. Pall. spic. zool. /. ^. i-f- — 4. 



Sucker with naked body^ very smooth unarmed head, and 

 separate fins. 



Head very large, much broader than the body, 

 depressed, flat beneath: eyes oval, with silvery 

 irides : mouth as wide as the head : lips thick, 

 wrinkled, and doubled, with two very soft fleshy 

 caruncles within : tongue short, of an elliptic- 

 rounded shape : mandibles rounded : teeth conic, 

 unequal ; in the upper jaw four to the right,<and 

 three to the left: in the lower ten middle-teeth. 



