DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 269 



of body crossed at short intervals by transverse undulating folds of skin, (lie edge of the 

 fold with minute rough scales, causing it to appear sharply and finely serrate. Gil] mem- 

 branes united, free from isthmus. Dorsal spines rather high and slender; ventrals appar- 

 ently I, 3. 



TRIGLOPS l'INGELII. I!i ■iN-iiAia.-r. (Figure 256.) 



Triglope Pingelii, Reinhardt, Vid. Selsk. Natur. och Math. A.fhandl., 1838, 114-118.— GOnther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mas., ii. 17:'.; Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1877, 175: Challenger Report, xxn, 1887, 63.— Coixett, 

 Norgea Fisk.,36; Norsk. Nordh. Exped. Fisk.. 38, PI. I, Figs. 9, in. — i.n i.n boro, Sverig. oeh Norg. Fisk., 

 X68.— Goods & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 1879.— Jordan and Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 715. 



Triglops pleiirosHctus, Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865,81. 



Head very slender, its length 3 1 in that of body. Eye large, placed high, but lateral; 

 its diameter one third the length of head, longer than snout, and 3 times width of inter 

 orbital space. Preopercular spines t, short. Maxillary extending to below middle of orbit. 

 Nasal spines sharp. Ventral tins rather short; pectorals extending to front of anal. Tail 

 very slender, its diameter less than the eye. Anal papilla of male large. 



Radial formula: D. ix, 21; A. 21. 



Color olivaceous, somewhat variegated with darker; fins barred; a series of dusky spots 

 along sides; an ocellated black spot on posterior part of spinous dorsal. 



An Arctic species, found off Greenland, Nova Zeiubla, Norway, and extending in the 

 Western Atlantic southward to the latitudes of New England. 



Specimens were taken on the American coast by the steamer Albatross from the follow- 

 ing localities: Station 2466, in 45 3 29' N. lat., 55° 24' W. Ion., at a depth of 67 fathoms; sta 

 tior 2446, in 4<P 20' N. lat., 49° 52' W. Ion., at a depth of 40 fathoms; station 2501, in 44° 27' 

 N. lat., 60° 20' 15" W. Ion., at a depth of 26 fathoms; station 2440, in 43° 38' N. lat., 49° 

 49 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 33 fathoms ; station 2402, in 45° 22' N. lat,, 58° 43' 45" W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 75 fathoms; station 2440, in 40° 37' N. lat,, 49° 50' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 

 .■!!» fathoms: station 2438, in 43° 36' N. lat,, 50° 03' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 37 fathoms; 

 station 2441, in 45° 27' N. lat., 49° 42' W. Ion., at a depth of 34 fathems; station 2445, in 

 40° 00' 30" N. lat., 49° 48' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 30 fathoms: station 2444, in 45°59'N. 

 lat., 49° 45' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 39 fathoms; station 2520, in 42° 41' N. lat,, 64= 55' 30" 

 W. Ion., at a depth of 62 fathoms; station 2058, in 41° 57' 30" N. lat., 67° 58' W. Ion., at a 

 depth of 35 fathoms; station 2451, in 46° 5S' N. hit., 50° 34' W. Ion., at a depth of 67 

 fat horns; station 2450, in 46° 45' N. lat., 50° 02' 30" W. Ion.; at a depth of 44 fathoms. 



COTTUNCULUS, Collett. 



Cottuncuhis, Cou.ett, Norges Fiske, 1875, 20 (type, Cottuncnlus microps, Collett). — Jordan and Gillbert, 

 Bull. xvi. U. S. Nat. Mus., 687.— Gunthek, Challenger Report, xxn, 1887, 60. 



Tadpole shaped, the head extremely large, the body tapering from shoulders to the 

 slender tail; mouth rather large, terminal, oblique; villiform teeth in the jaws; a double 

 patch on vomer; no teeth on the palatines; no spines on the head, the tubercular surface 

 of the skull covered by skin; skull thin, its bones not firm. Gills 3i, no slit behind the 

 last arch; gill-membranes broadly joined to the isthmus, their union extending to above 

 the lower edge of the base of the pectorals. Pseudobranchiae very small; no cirri, scales, 

 or prickles; the skin thin and movable, smooth, or roughened with small warts. Spinous 

 dorsal little developed; the two fins usually continuous; spines very slender, flexible, em- 

 bedded in the skin; pectorals short, procurrent below; ventrals very short, well separated, 

 their rays I, 3; caudal rounded. (Jordan ami Gilbert.) 



COTTUNCULUS MICROPS, Collett. (Figures 257 and 261, A, B.) 



Cottuncuhis microps, Collett, Norges Fiske, 1875, 20, pi. I, figs. 1-3; Meddelelaer om Norges Fiske, Aarena, 

 1815-18, ls7'.t. 11; Forh. Vid. Setek., Chriatiania, 1880, 11; Norsk. Nordh. Exped., 18, pi. i. figs. 5.6: Nyt. 



Mag. !'. Naturvid., xvm. 1884, 53.— Strom, Norsk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift., 1880,75.— G >e, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., 1880, 479.— Goodk and Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. x. 1883, 212.— Liixjebobg, Sverig. och 

 Norg. Fiskr. 113.— Jordan and Gilbert, Bull, xvr, I". S. Nat. Mus.. 689 (description quoted below from 

 full-grown specimens). — Gunther, Challenger Report, xxn, 1SS7, 60, pi. ix, fig. A. 



