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The cranium is proportionally broader toward the front and 

 less flattened, while the brain ease is flattened below, decidedly 



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swollen on each side of a depressed sphenoidal groove, and has 

 an ovate cardiform shape; the paraoccipital or epiotic is not 

 produced into an angle behind, but is obtusely rounded, and its 

 posterior or outwardly descending ridge blunt- the opisthotic is 

 well developed, oblong, and with its reentering angle liigli up, 

 and, on a line with it, the surface is divided into two parts a 

 narrow and flattened one, and a lower, expanded one, much 

 swollen; the alisphenoid or prootic is oblong, acutely emarginate 

 in front, swollen from the region of the high anterior sinus, 

 and above a little produced forward; the great frontal is a little 

 longer than broad, with supraoccipital crest continued forward 

 on the bone, and near the front expanded upward, and with the 

 expanded portion behind dividing into narrow lateral wings; the 

 lateral testiform ridges of the frontal are continued forward 

 and curved outward toward the antero-lateral angles; the ante- 

 rior frontals are mostly covered in front by the great frontal, 

 and are much developed in the direction of the antero-lateral 

 angles, the inferior expanded axillary portion being very nar- 

 row; the nasal has a rounded ridge in front, continued well 

 below, and its posterior crest is laminar and trenchant. 

 Species American; valued as food. 



346 Microgadus tomcod (Walbaum) 

 Tomcod; Frostfisli 



find us tomcod WALBAUM, Art. Gen. Pise. Ill, 133, 1792. 



Gadus tomcodus MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 368. 1815; 



STOKER, Rep. Fish. Mass. 126, 1839; GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 



IV, 331, 1862. 



Ga-dits pruinosus MITCHILL, Rep. Fish. N. Y. 4, 1814. 

 Morrlina pridnosa DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fish. 278, pi. 44, fig. 142, 1842: 



STOKER, Hist. Fish. Mass. 179, pi. XXVII, fig. 5, 1867. 

 Microf/adus tomcodus GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 8, 1879; BEAN, 



19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 248, pi. Ill, fig. 3, 1890. 

 Microgadus tomcod JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 806, 1883; 



BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 371, 1897; MEARNS, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist. X, 322, 1898; EUGENE SMITH, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. Y. 1897, 40, 1898; H. M. SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 107, 1898; 



JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, TJ. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 2540, 1898; IV, pi. 



CCCLX. fig. 890, 1900; BEAN. 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 109, 



1900. 



