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b. Scales absent Lycodalepis 



2. Vomer toothless, palatines dentigerons. 



a. Scales present, imbedded Apkodon 



:i. Vomer and palatines toothless. 



a. Scales present Lycodopsis 



I'.. Ventrals absent. 



1. Scales present. 



n. Vomer and palatines toothed [Maynea] 



h. Vomer and palatines toothless [Bothrocara] 



2. Scales absent. 



a. Teeth moderate. 



I. Jaws equal; body scaleless cymnelis 



II. Lower jaw longest [Lyocara = Ubonectes] 



h. Teeth in jaws and on vomer in a single series, very prominent. 



I. Skin loose and movable Mi LANOSTIGMA 



LYCODES, Reinhardt. 



Lycodes, Reinhardt, Kongl. Danske Selsk. AfhandL, vn, 1838, 147.— GOnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., iv, 

 785.^JORDAN and Gilbert, Boll. xvi. V. S. Nat. Mas., 785. 



Zoarceoid fishes with body moderately elongate, anguillifonn, tapering behind. Head 

 oblong; month nearly horizontal; lower jaw included. Teeth conical on jaws, vomerines, 

 ami palatines, those on jaws and palatines usually in single series. Vertical lins united. 

 Origin of dorsal behind base of pectoral; pectorals moderate; ventral rudimentary, of 3 or 

 I rays. Scales minute, imbedded, present on part or till of the body, the scaly area more 

 extensive in the adult than in the young. No air bladder nor pyloric caeca. 



LYCODES VAHLII, Reinhardt. 



Lycotlc* Palilii, Reinhardt, Kongelige Dansko Videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabeligo og mathema- 

 tiske Afhandl., vn, lSlis, 153, tab. v. — Gill, Catalogue of the Fishes of the Eastern Coast "I North America, 

 1861, ItJ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1863, 260, (Sept.); Catalogue, FishesofEast Coast of North 

 America, is?:;, 18.— Gunther, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, iv, 1862, 319. 



Height of body one-eighth of its length. Head nearlytwice as long as high, its length 

 four and one-third times in that of body ; snout long, the maxillary reaching to opposite 

 middle of eye. Distance of vent from ventrals nearly equal to length of head; ventral lins 

 less than one fourth as Long as pectorals; vertical fins scaly; body wholly scaly. 



Radial formula: I). 116; A. 93; V. 4; Vert. 25+87. 



Color brownish yellow, with 6 blackish cross bands extending on the dorsal tin and 

 confluent on the belly; the first cross band on and below the anterior dorsal rays, the second 

 above the vent; adults nearly uniform blackish. 



This species is as yet known only from Greenland, whence was obtained this type of 

 Reinhardt. 



LYCODES ESMAKKII, Collett. (Fig. 272.) 



Lycodes Esmarkii, Collett, Norges Fiske, 1871, 95; Norske Nord-IIavs. Exp., 1880, 84. 

 Lycodes lulilii. Goode and Bean. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., 1S79, 209 (uot of Reinhardt ). 



A Lycodes with body moderately elongate, its height one-eighth of its length. Length 

 of head two-ninths that of body; snout obtuse; maxillary not more than half as long as head. 

 Vertical fins, nape and body behind front of dorsal scaly. Lateral line indistinct, divided. 

 Length of pectorals eight times in that of body. 



Radial formula: I). 110; A. 05; P.22; V. 4. 



Color brownish black, with a whitish yellow patch on the nape, and 5 to 8 transverse 

 bands id' the same color across the dorsal and posteriorly across the anal, these bands becom- 

 ing broken into annular spots with age. 



The V. S. Fish Commission received fromCapt. Z. Hawkins and ths crew of t lie schooner 

 (i<r * inh, I, a, of Gloucester, .Mass., a fine specimen of a species of Lycotlcs, obtained on La Have 

 Bank, in latitude -12"- 4.1' N.. and between the meridians of 62° 20' and 63< 30' \\\. at a depth 

 of 300 to 100 fathoms, the schooner having changed position while fishing. A second sped 



