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243. Lycodes jordani ICvormann & Goldsborough, new species. 



Head 7 in total length; depth 14; eye 4.5 in head; Bnout 3.5; maxillary 2.9; interorbital 3 in 

 length of eye; length of pectoral 2.1 in head; ventral 1.5 in eye; dorsal 116; anal 93 (dorsal and anal 

 counts taken from cotype). 



Head and nape naked, rest of body fully scaled, except the axil of pectoral, which is naked; dorsal 

 origin over anterior part of pectoral; anal origin under aboul t lie eighteenth dorsal ray; pectorals nearly 

 rounded in outline, the fourth to seventh rays from the upper part being the longest, all the rays except a 

 few upper free at their tips, the free margin about equal in length to pupil. 



Top of head flat, the interorbital space about equal to pupil, the bone being much narrower, about 

 one-fourth (lie space; maxillary reaching anterior edge of pupil; small villiform teeth on vomer, pala- 

 tines, and jaws, those on jaws in a single row laterally, broadening into a patch anteriorly; a row of 1 

 arge pores on mandible, the row continued in 3 similar pores on preopercle; 6 similar but smaller 



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Fig. 120. I.yt'odfs joni.tiii Kvrimuin & Goldsborough, new species. Typo. 



puns extending from anterior nasal opening just above maxillary and posteriorly under eye. tlie last 

 pore above the aext to last in lower row; anterior nasal opining with short tube; lower jaw included; 

 upper jaw reaching very slightly beyond lower, for a .list a tee less than half width of pupil; lateral line 

 not evident 



( ieneral color: Brownish olivaceous, the scales on bodj and fins white, giving the body the appear- 

 ance of being white spotted, the pectoral, head, and edges of dorsal and anal a darker olive than thai of 

 body. 



Another specimen from station 4267, and which we take as a cotype, gives the following measure- 

 ments: Head 6.8 in total length; depth L6.5; eye 1.66inhead; snout 3.9; interorbital 1.3 in eye, the 

 bone about I in eye; maxillary 3 in head; mandible 3.4; ventral equaling eye; pectoral 2 in head; 



dorsal I L6; anal 93. 



This species is near Lycodes palearis, differing in depth, in color, in the shorter upper jaw, and in 

 oilier characters. 



Type, no. 57828, (J. S. National Museum (field no. 2439), a specimen 13.25 inches long from Albatross 

 station 3788, and cotype, no. 20014, Stanford University Museum, a specimen 8.4 inches long from 

 station 4207. 



244. Lycodes brevipes Bean. 



This species was found to be very e. minion in the deep waters from Puget Sound to Shelikof Strait. 

 Sixty-three specimens, 2.5 to 10.75 inches long, are in the collection. These were taken at stations 2S48, 

 4201, 1218, 1246, 4248, 4250, 4252, 4254 to 4256, 1258, 4275, 4280, 4283, 4285, 4291 to 1293, 1295, and 1296. 



Originally described by Bean (1891) from Tnga and Nagai islands, at Albatross station 2848; recorded 

 also from stations 3216, 3225 to 3227, 3263, 3309 to 3311, 3313, and 3330, located north and south of the 

 Aleutian Islands and in Bristol Bay (Gilbert 1895), and from off Karluk (Jordan & Gilbert 1896). 



