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b. Scales absent Lycodalepis 



2. Vomer toothless, palatines dentigoroiis. 



a. Scales present, iiubeddej ArRODON 



3. Vomer and palatines tootliloss. 



a. Scales present Lycodopsis 



I?. Ventrals absent. 



1. Scales present. 



«. Vomer and palatines toollicd [Maynea] 



6. Vomer and palatines toothless [Boturocaka] 



2. Scales absent. 



a. Teeth moderate. 



I. Jaws o(iual; body scaloless Gymnelis 



II. Lower jaw longest [Lyocara = Uronectes] 



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



1. Skin loose and movable Melanostigma 



LYCODES, Reinhardt. 



Lijcodcs, Eeiniiaedt, Kougl. Dansko Selsk. Afhandl., vii, 1838, 147. — GDntuer, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 

 785.— Jordan and Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mas., 785. 



Zoarceoid fishes with body moderately elongate, auguilliform, tapeiiug behind. Head 

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

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

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

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

 extensive in the adult than in the young. IS^o air bladder nor pyloric cajca. 



LYCODES VAHLII, Reinhardt. 



Lycodea ValiKi, Reinhardt, Kongelige Dansko Videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabelige og mathema- 

 tiske Afhandl., VII, 1838,153, tab. v. — Gill, Catalogueof the Fishes of the Eastern Coast of North America, 

 1861, 40; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1863, 260, (Sept.); Catalogue, Fishes of East Coast of North 

 America, 1873, 18. — GtiNTHER, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, iv, 1862, 319. 



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

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

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

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



Radial formula: IJ. IIG; A. <J3; V. 4; Vert. 25+87. 



Color brownish yellow, with G blackish cross bands extending on the dorsal fin and 

 confiueutou the belly; the first cross baud 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 tyi)e of 

 lleinhardt. 



LYCODES ESMARKII, Collett. (Fig. 272.) 



Lycodes Esmarkii, Collett, Norges Fiske, 1874, 95; Norske Nord-Havs. Exp., 1880, 8-i. 

 Lycodcs Valdii, Gooue and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 209 (not 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. 



Eadial formula: D. 110; A. 95; P. 22; V. 4. 



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

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

 ing broken into annular spots with age. 



The U. S. Fish Commission received from Capt. Z. Hawkins and th? crew of the schooner 

 Oiccndolcn, of Gloucester, Mass., a fine s])('(amen of a species of Iii/codis, obtained on La Have 

 Bank, in latitude 42° 43' N., and between the meridians of (>2o 20' and iV.r^ 30' W., at a depth 

 of 300 to 400 fathoms, the schooner having changed position wliile fishing. A second speci 



