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Synopsis. 



A. Pectoral fins with 18 22 rays. 



I. Body wholly scaly. 



a.. Vertical fins scaly. Brownish yellow, with six 

 slightly oblique, blackish bands as wide as the in- 

 tervals behind the head, tending downwards and 

 forwards. Head dark. D. 116117. A. 9195. 

 P. 20. V. 4 L. vahlii. 



0. Vertical fins naked. Brownish yellow, with anasto- 



mosing lines forming' five reticulated bands behind 

 the head. Head reticulated with similar lines. D. 

 9395. A. 75. P. 20. V. 4 L. reticulatus. 



II. Body only partly scaly. 



1. Body scaly in front, naked behind ; fins naked. Yel- 



lowish, with eight brown bands, broader than their 

 interspaces, behind the head. Head banded above, 

 and with two round yellow spots on the crown. D. 

 80. A. 65. P. 19. V. 3 L. perspicillum. 



2. Body naked in front, scaly behind ; fins naked. 



Color uniform. D. 91. A. 71. P. 2122. V. (3?) L. seminudus. 



3. Body naked anteriorly ; scaly on the posterior part 



of the dorsal fin, not or scarcely on the anal. 

 Brown, with transverse yellow bands across the 

 back, but small and indistinct. D. 87. A. 68. 

 P. 19. V. 3 L. nebulosus. 



III. Body and fins wholly naked. Brownish black, with 

 five narrow white bars across the back behind the 

 head ; the posterior largest, and spreading down- 

 wards. Abdomen and head, below white. D. 90. 



A. 70. P. 18. V. 3 , L. mucosus. 



B. Pectoral fins "having fifteen rays," with the length "ex- 



ceeding twice its breadth," without any scales. Yel- 

 lowish, "with eleven large saddle-shape markings 

 across the back, the middle of these markings being 

 much lighter than their edges ; the whole back and the 

 sides marbled L. polaris. 



Lycodes Vahlii Reinhardt. 

 Synonymy. 

 Lycodes Vahlii Reinhardt, Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Natur- 

 videnskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlingar, deel vii. p. 153, tab. 5, 

 1838. Gill, Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast, &c, p. 46, 

 1860. Gunther, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, vol. 

 iv. p. 319, 1862. 

 Eab. Greenland. 



Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt. 



Synonymy. 

 Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt, op. cit., deel vii. p. 167, tab. vi. Gill, op. cit., 

 p. 46. Gunther, op. cit., vol. iv. p. 320. 

 Hab. Greenland. 



Lycodes perspicillum Kroyer. 

 Synonymy. 

 Lycodes perspicillum Kroyer, Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Viden- 

 skabernes Selskabs, &c, 1844, p. 140. Kroyer, Voyage en Scan- 

 dinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Faroe, &c, sur la corvette 



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