PLATE XLVII. 
There is nothing in this character expressly different from that which 
Lepechin, and on his authority Gmelin assigns to his lineatus “ cor- 
pore nudo, pinnis dorsali, et anali sensim in caudalem excurrentibus,” 
because in both the dorsal and anal fins are connected with the tail, 
a nd the trivial distinction of those fins running gradually into the 
tell, is insufficient to mark the species, as the same circumstance is 
observable in Cyclopterus liparis. 
Lepechin has thus far failed in endeavouring to assign to his spe- 
cies lineatus, such a character as may distinguish his fish from liparis. 
fiut before we intrude our individual opinion in preference to that 
°f Lepechin, which has been received as correct by one of the most 
distinguished societies in Europe, we shall examine the general 
description, in order to discover if possible some peculiarities in the 
Cyclopterus lineatus of that writer, that are not observable in C. liparis ; 
ar >d these we think might be readily detected in the detail he has given, 
if there really existed any difference between them. 
The colour of lineatus is described as being of a chesnut colour, * 
ex cept the belly, and part immediately surrounding it : the throat 
P a le, and tuberculated : lower lip faint rosy : and both the head and 
body marked with pretty broad whitish lines, some of which are 
Hl 'aight, and the others undulated. Although this be not very 
commonly the appearance of liparis, we have the authority of 
several writers, for asserting that the back and sides are not unfre- 
‘jucntly variegated, spotted, and striated longitudinally with brown. 
Color totius piscis castaneus, excepto ventre cum vicina, gula pallidioribus tubercu. 
s 1 u e labri inferioris dilute roseis. Per caput atijue latera corporis ducuntur lineae lon- 
s finales, sat latse et partial recta, partial undulat* ad caudaai convergences, exalbioise 
I-Lxrsca. 
