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at a depth of 41 fathoms; Cat. -33352, U. S. N. M., from station 1159, in 40° 20' K lat., 70 

 ;;:.' W. Ion., at a depth of:.:, fathoms; Cat. No. 28994, U.S. N. M., from station 1043, in 38° 

 39' N. lat., 73 11' W. lou., at a depth of 130 fatlioms; Cat. No. l\s7G0, U. S. N. M., from 

 station 937, in 39° 49' 25" N. lat., 69° 49' AV. Ion., at a depth of 616 fathoms; Cat. No. 28823, 

 U. S. N. M., from station 948, in Buzzards Bay, Penikese Island, at a depth of 7 fathoms; 

 and Cat. No. 25857, U. S. N. M., from station 802, in Narragansett Bay, at a depth of li'A 

 fathoms. The Blue! it/lit captured three young individuals at stations 163 and 156, in Blue 

 Light Cove, at a depth of 2 fathoms, and station 182, in 15 to 23 fathoms. 



BROSMIUS, Cuvier. 



Brosmius, Cuvier, Regno Animal, ed. 2, 1827, m, 334 (type, (Indus brosme, Miiller). — GOnther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mvis., iv, 369.— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1*63, 211.— Jordan and Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. 

 Nat. Mns., 802. 



Gadoids having the body moderately elongate and a single dorsal fin, and a separate 

 caudal. Mouth moderately large. Teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; some of those on 

 the vomer and palatines enlarged; chin with a barbel; scales very small; branchiostegals 

 7. Ventral fins several rayed. 



BROSMIUS BROSME, (Mcller), Gcntiier. (Figure 329.) 



Gadus brosme, Mcller, Prodromus Zoologists Danicae, 41. 



Brosmius brosmc, Guntiier, Cat Fish. Brit. Mus., IV, 1802, 369; Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 1882, 



680. — Goode and Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. — Lilljeborg, Sverige och Norg. Fiske, n, 202. 

 Brosmius flavescens, Hist. Stores, Fish Mass., 1867, 190. (A deformed specimen?) 



Head flattened above; its length 4i times in that of body; upper jaw slightly longer 

 than lower; month large, oblique; maxillary reaching beyond orbit. Height of body 5J 

 times in its length. 



Eadial formula: D. 98; A. 71. 



Color, brownish, mottled; young uniform dark slate-color or with transverse yellow 

 bands; vertical fins bordered with blackish, and with a white edge. 



The disk or Torsk lives on the offshore banks of northern New England. In Europe, 

 according to Giiuther, its range is from 30 to 120 fathoms, and an adult was obtained by 

 the Knight Errant, in 18S0, in the Faroe channel, at the depth of 530 fathoms. On the 

 New England coast it is a common resident of the inshore fishing grounds, where it occurs 

 in great abundance, lurking among the stones, but is soon caught up by the fishermen after 

 the discovery of a new bank. It occurs as far out as the 250 or 300 fathoms line. 



BROSMICULUS, Vaillant. 



Brosmioulus, Vaillant, Exp. Sci. Tavailleur et Talisman, Poissons, 1888, 292 (type, Brosmieulus imberbis, 



Vaillant). 



A gadoid, with elongated body, a single dorsal and anal; caudal distinct; ventrals 

 slender, 5-rayed. Teeth moderate, biserial in the jaws, none on the vomerines or palatines. 

 No barbel. No pseudobranchise. 



This form is said by Vaillant to be near to Brosmius. 



BROSMICULUS IMBERBIS, Vaillant. 



Brosmioulus imberbis, Vaillant, Exp. Sci. Travaillour ot Talisman, Poiss., 1888,293. 



A Brosmioulus having its body elongate, slender, its height one-fourth of its length 

 Its head is twice as long as the height of the body, a little higher than broad, with an ob- 

 tuse, truncated muzzle, whose length is one-fourth that of the head. Mouth moderate, 

 the maxillary reaching to the vertical from the center of the eye; the lower jaw slightly 

 the longer. Teeth in both jaws small, conical, in 2 rows; vomer and palatine without 

 teeth. Diameter of the eye one-fourth the length of the head; interorbital space three- 

 tenths. No barbel. Scales simple, 81 in the lateral line, 7 above and 23 below it. Head 

 completely scaly to the very extremity of the snout. 

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