PLATE LXXVI. 
^Peaking, those spots become obscure soon after the fish dies ; in 
°thers, they remain for two, three, or four days, nearly as distinctly 
Visible as in the living fish. We have specimens even that have been 
lr nmersed for months in spirit of wine, in which those spots, though 
feint, may be observed, if attentively examined. 
The four cirri before the eyes are of a fine red colour, they are 
c rect, or slightly bending backwards, and two are rather shorter than 
die others : those cirri are disposed in pairs, a longer and shorter one 
being situated before each eye ; at the base they are connected, but 
from thence they rise separately, and are perfectly distinct. How 
Pennant could have mistaken those cirri, so far as it appears he has 
fi°ne, is unaccountable : indeed his figures seem to be at variance 
vvith his description, as though his artist had observed two filaments 
before each eye in the very specimen represented, instead of one, as 
Pennant describes it: there is certainly a slight appearance at least, of 
fivo filaments before each eye, in both the figures of the Jura Sucker 
Kiven in the British Zoology. 
Gmelin omits this species of Cyclopterus in his edition of the Lin- 
n aean Systema Naturre. Turton, in his translation of that work, sup- 
plies the omission, describing it as Cyclopterus Lepidogaster, or Jura 
tucker; his specific character, however, being taken from Pennant, 
ls erroneous in the last mentioned particular, for he speaks of a single 
filament before each eye as a principal criterion of the species, but 
'''bid), it appears from the above particulars, is not correct; neither is 
file snout of tin's fish truncated as that author describes. 
The general appearance of this species is sufficiently explained by 
{ be figure accompanying this description. The dorsal fin in our 
