DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 357 



I'HYCIS BLENNIOIDES, (Brunnich), Schneider. 



Gadua hhnnioides, BRiJNNlCH, Iclithyologia Massilieiisis, 1768, 24. 



Fhycis hhnmokleii, .Sc[lNi:ii)KK, Bloch's Systeiua Iclithyologiio, 1801, 50, pi. XI. — Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. M^rid., 



222.— GuiciiEvoT, Explor. Alger., 103.— Gunthkk, Cat. Fisb. Brit. Miis., iv, 18lJ2, 352 (ilescriiition); 



Ch.allenger Report, XXII, 1887, 'Sy.^CANESTUiNi, Fauua Italica, lolj; G:uliili,pls.xiii-xiv, tig 1. — GuiLioi.i, 



Eleneo, 30.- MoREAU, Hist. Nat. Poiss., France, ill, 264.— Strom, Norsk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift, 1X81, 76; 



1887, 35.— CoLLUTT, Nyt. Mag. f. Naturvid., 1887. 

 Gmlun albUlas, G.MKMN, Liuu. Syst. Nat., 1788, i, 1171. 



t'hi/cis atbidas, Vaii-lant, Exp. Sci. Travailleur et Talisman, 1888, 288, pi. xxvi, figs. 4 and 4", 83. 

 Phycia tinea, Schneider, loo. cit. 



ISlennius gadoidea, LACi;pi:DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 334. — Rissfo, Icbth. Nice, 136. 

 Batrachoides Gmclini., Risso, Iclith. Nice, 143, pi. vi, fig. 6. 

 Phycis Gmelini, Risso, op. cit., 223. 

 PItycis furcatus, Fleming, Britisli Animals, 193, et ul. 



A Phycis with its body 4 times as long as its head, which is slightly longer than the 

 greatest height of the body. Snout obtuse, slightly projecting, nearly as long as the diame- 

 ter of the eye. Teeth iti villiforui bands on Jaws and vomer. Origin of first dorsal directly 

 above that of i>ectoral, its second and third rays prolonged in a filament shorter than the 

 head. Ventrals filamentous, their tips passing the origin of the anal. Scales in lateral 

 line about 100, and in a to G rows above lateral line under tlie first dorsal. 



Radial formula: D. 9-11 -f 57-0:3. A. 52-^5. 



Color, silvery-gray, the pectorals and ventrals with brown dots; the .second dorsal, the 

 anal, and the caudal edged with black; the first dorsal black in its anterior portion. 



This, the "greater fork beard'' of tiie English books, clo.sely related to the hakes of 

 New England, is identified by Vaillant with various fishes found off Portugal at depths of 

 from 370 to 460 meters (stations xxv, xxvi, xxvii, LViii), and at Penon de Velez (Station 

 xxviii) at 370 meters. It has been recorded also from Nice, Naples, Corsica, and Sicily, 

 but never fi-om deep water in tlie Mediterranean. Giinther admits it to the deep-sea fauna 

 on the testimony of Strom and CoUett, who report it from 70 to 200 fathoms off the west 

 coast of Scandinavia. 



PHYCIS REGIUS, (Wai.hattm), Jordan .and Gilbert. (Figure 309.) 



Bteimius regiiis, Walbaum, Artedi, 1792, 186. 



Vi-oiihycis regiiis, Gn.L., Pvoc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila , 1863, 240. 



Phycis reijiiiH, Jordan and (Jiluert, I'loc U. S. Nat. Mas., i, 1878, 371. — Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 111,1880, ].p. 70,476; Bull. Mns. Comp. Zool., xi, 1883, 204; Cat. Fish. Essex Co. .and Mass. Bay, 1879, 

 8.— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., in, 1880, 70.— Jordan and (Jilbekt, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mas., 798. 



Jiiiohelyojjits rcyalis, Schneider, Block. Syst. IcUth., i (cloth), 1801,33. 



Phycis regalis, Kaup, Archiv. fiir Naturg. 1858, 89. — Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A., 1861, 49. — GOnther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 1862, 354; Challenger Report, xxil, 1887, 89. 



" Gadus hlennioidcs, Mitchill, Medical Register, 1814." 



Gadiis punvtatus, Mitchill, ihid. 



Phycis punctatiis, DeKay, Zool.N. V., Fish., 1842, p. 292, PI. XLVI, lig. 149. 



A Phycis with its body 4J times as long as the head, which is but very slightly shorter 

 than the greatest height of the body. Snout obtuse and but slightly projecting, much 

 longer thau the diameter of the rather small, low-set eye. Origin of the first dorsal above 

 or even slightly iu advance of the vertical from that of pectoral; its rays are not prolonged 

 and it is no higher than the second dorsal. Ventrals prolonged, their tip reaching to the 

 vent, but not to the origin of the anal. Scales rather large, about DO in the lateral line and 

 about 5 above it under the first dorsal. 



liadial formula: 1). 8 -f 43; A. 44-47. 



Color, pale-brownish, tinged with yellowish, the lateral line dark brown, interrupted 

 by white spots; insider of mouth white; first dorsal largely black, tliis color surrounded by 

 white; second dorsal olivaceous, with irregular round dark spots; caudal, anal and pecto- 

 rals dusky; ventrals and lower edge of pectorals white; two vertical series of round dark 

 spots on the sides of the head. 



