2466 Bulletin 47, United States Natio?ial Mtisetim. 



Teeth present on intermaxillary, mandible, palatines, and vomer ; lateral 

 line low, extending from upper end of gill opening in a curved direction 

 down toward vent from which it runs close along anal to end of tail. 

 (Goode & Bean.) Pectoral fin obliquely truncate at tip, appearing furcate 

 when not spread open. North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, from Spitzbergen 

 southto the New England coast, where many specimens were taken in 516 

 to 1,423 fathoms. (En.) One of C'ollett's sjiecimeus from Hammerfest, 

 examined by us.) {fru/idus, frozen.) 



Lycodesfrigidus, Collett, Forli. Solsk. Christ. 1878, Nos. 14 and 15, Beeren Island :ind 

 Spitzbergen; Collett, Korske Nord-Hav.s Exp., 9(i, pi. 3, f. 23, 24, 1880 ; Goode & 

 Bean, Oceanic Ichtliyology, 305, 1896. 



2824. LTOODES TERR^-NOV.E, Collett. 



Head 5 to 5J; depth 8 to 11. D. 106 to 108; A. 89 to 93; P. 23 or 24. Body 

 slender, head small; pectorals broad; maxillary reaching to middle of 

 eye; band of palatine teeth very short, scarcely I length of maxillary 

 band; body entirely scaly, head naked; lateral line ventral, extending 

 along edge of belly, the median branch wanting; vent before middle of 

 body. Color lost in type, the only specimen known. Banks of New- 

 foundland, in 155 fathoms. (Collett.) {terra, land; norus, new, from 

 Newfoundland.) 



Lycodcs terrcB-novce, Collett, Cauipagiies Scientiflque,'*, L'Hirondello, x, 1896, 54, Bank 

 of Newfoundland, Hirondelle Station 162, in 155 fathoms. (Coll. Albert, Prince of 

 Mon-aco.) 



2,S25. LYCODES DIGITATUS, Gill & Townsend. 



Head 5 in total; depth about 8A ; eye 6i in head; snout 3; ventral fin If 

 in eye; pectoral li^,, in head. D.lOl; A. 81; P. 18. Body moderately elon- 

 gate; covered with small, entirely separated embedded scales, wliich 

 become nearer anteriorly and extend in advance of the dorsal fin as well 

 as on the vertical fins; no specialized area of smaller scales behind base of 

 pectorals; pectorals scaleless; head moderate, entirely naked; nape 

 naked ; upper jaw with outer row of close-set teeth, broader in front ; teeth 

 on vomer and palatines; lips rather thick. Color in alcohol, brownish 

 yellow, sufi'used with reddish in front, variegated, darker anteriorly, with 

 4 dark longitudinal stripes most distinct about middle of body, fading 

 out backward; fins light and without dark margins; head dark above 

 and laterally light below. Bering Sea. Only the type known, from which 

 we have taken this description, its length IS inches; possibly the adult of 

 L. palcaris, but the pectoral fins are shorter than in the latter, (digitatus, 

 fingered.) 



Lycodes diijitatus. Gill & Townsend, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xi, 1897 (Sept. 17, 1897), 232, 

 Bering Sea, lat. 56° 14' N., long. 164° 8' W., at Albatross Station 3541, in 49 fathoms. 

 (Type, No. 48765, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Albatrons.) 



2820. LYCODES PALEARIS, Gilbert. 



Head 5i in length; depth 9.1 to 11 in length, 2^ in head; eye 5 to 6 in 

 head, H to 2 in snout. Dor-sal with al)out 105 rays, counted to middle of 

 caudal; anal about 90; pectoral 18; ventrals li to 1^ in eye, twice as long 



