Jordan and Ever maiin. — Fishes of North America. 2403 



LYCIAS (AuVos, wolf) : 

 II. Trunk naked anteriorly, scaled only on the tail or posterior half. 



k. Dorsal tin scaled posteriorly ; color brown, with faint yellow transverse hands 



on back. nebulosus, 28i;8. 



Mi. Dorsal tin naked; color uniform pale grayish brown without spots or bands; 



pectoral rays 21 ; lateral line single, median. seminudus, 2829. 



Subgenus LYCODES. 



2817. LYCODES ESMARKII, Collett. 



Head 4* ; depth 8. D. 110 to 116; P. 22; A. 95; V. 4. Body behind front 

 of dorsal scaled; vertical liiis sealy; nape scaly; snout obtuse; maxillary 

 not more than \ head; lateral line indistinct, divided, having a median 

 branch besides the ventral series of pores, the median series faint, soon 

 obsolete; pectorals 8 in length ; vertebrse 25 + 87. Brownish black, with 

 a whitish-yellow patch on the nape, and 5 to 8 transverse bands of the same 

 color across the dorsal and posteriorly across the anal, these bauds becom- 

 ing broken into annular spots with age. North Atlantic; recorded from 

 Finmark and Spitzbergen. American specimens from the Gulf Stream 

 in about lat. 40°. (Collett.) (Named for Professor Lauritz P^.smark, of 

 Copenhagen.) 



Lycodeg esmartii, Collett, Norges Fiske, 95, 1874, Varanger Fjord, Finmark (Coll. Lens- 

 mand Klerk and Prof. Esmark); Collett, Norske Nord-Havs Exp., Fiske, 84, pi. 3, 

 fig. 22, 1880. 



Lycodes vahli. Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 209, not of Reinhardt ; Jordan 

 & Gilbert, Synopsis, 786, 1883; Goode &, Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 303, 1896. 



2818. LYCODES VAHLII, Reinhardt. 



Head 4^; depths. D. 116; A. 93; V. 4. Head nearly twice as long as 

 high; snout long, maxillary reaching to opposite middle of eye; dis- 

 tance of vent from ventrals nearly equal to length of head ; ventral fins 

 less than J as long as pectorals; vertical fins scaly; body wholly scaly; 

 lateral line distinct, ventral in position ; vertebr;e 25 -|- 87. Brownish yel- 

 low, with 6 blacki.sh cross bands extending on the dorsal fin and confluent 

 on the belly, the first cross band on and below the anterior dorsal rays, the 

 second above the vent; adults nearly uniform blackish. - Coast of Green- 

 land. (Giinther.) (Named for Martin Vahl, an early Danish naturalist.) 



Lycodes vahlii, Reinhardt, Kon. Dan. Vidensk. SeLsk. Nat. Math. Afh., vii, 1838, 153, 

 tab. V, Greenland ; Gill, Cat. Fishes East Coast N. A., 46, 1861 ; Gunther, Cat., iv, 

 319, 1862 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 786, 1883 ; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 

 303, 1896. 



2819. LYCODES CONCOLOR, Gill & Townsend. 



Head 5 in total; depth about 74; eye 7f in head: snout 3; ventral fin 

 2 in eye; pectoral 2 in head. D. 118; A. 98; P. 21. Body rather elongate, 

 covered with very small, entirely separated embedded scales which become 

 more distinct anteriorly and extend in advance of the dorsal fin and scap- 

 ular region, as well as on the vertical fins; lateral line obsolete; pectorals 

 with scattered scales on external and internal surfaces near base ; a special- 

 ized area of smaller scales behind base of pectoral and a naked area around 



