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expanded tip are scales. Eye large, one fourth as long as head, and as wide 

 as the interorbital space. Length of head one fifth standard length. 



Dorsal fin inserted at a distance from the snout equal to two ninths the 

 length of the body. 



Anal inserted under the vertical from the 25th or 26th dorsal ray. Tlie 

 height of the dorsal and anal fins is about equal to the diameter of the eye. 

 Their bases extend almost to the insertion of the caudal. 



The caudal is composed of six or seven rays : its length equal to half the dis- 

 tance from the snout to the insertion of the dorsal. 



The ventrals inserted almost under, but slightly posterior to, the posterior 

 limb of the preoperculum, in length about equalling the upper jaw. 



Pectorals inserted close to the branchial aperture ; the eight lower rays being 

 free and much prolonged, the longest and most anterior being nearly one third 

 as long as the body, and more than three times as long as the contiguous pos- 

 terior ray of the normally-constructed portion of the fin, which is, however, 

 about equal to the last of the free rays. The free portion of the pectoral being 

 longer, and composed of fewer rays, than the normal portion, the fish has the 

 appearance of bearing two pectoral fins of the same general shape, the lower of 

 which is the longer. The length of the normal portion of the fin is contained 

 about four times in the length of the body. 



Radial formula : D. 100 ; A. about 85 ; C. 6 or 7 ; V. i ; P. 19 + 7 or 8. 



L. lat. 110-120. 



GADID^. 



14. Phycis chuss (Walb.), Gill. 



Blennius chiiss, Walbaum, Artedi, 1792, p. 186. 



Phijcis chuss, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 237. 



This species occurred at the following stations. 



15. Phycis tenuis (Mitch.), Dekat. 



Gadiis tenuis, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Pliil. Soc. N. Y., 1814, p. 372. 

 Phi/cis tenuis, DeKay, ZoiJl. New York, Fishes, 1842, p. 293. 



Taken in the following locality. 



