Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America, 2537 



seems as near T.fucenais as T. chalcogramma. Its rays * are D. 11-16-17 • 

 A. 18-17; ventrals reaching ^ distance to veut; intcrorbital space wider 

 tbaueye; coloration dark. But its body is as slender as in T. chalco- 

 gramma. {fucencis, from tbe straits of Juan de Fuca.) 



Pollachius chalcngrammus fucencis, Jordan & Gilbekt, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1893, 315, 

 Puget Sound at Tacoma. (Type, No. 44455. Coll. David H. Hume.) 



979. ELEGINUS, Fischer. 



Eleginus, Fischer, Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscow, v, 4, 2cl Ed., 252-257, 1813 (navaga); not 



Eleginus of later authors. 

 Tilesia, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Clas.<i'n Fishes, n, 300, 1S39 (gracilis) ; name preoccupied. 

 Pleurogadus, Bejls, in Joedan, Cat.Fish. N. A., 130, 1885 ((/raci'ii*) ; substitute for Tilesia 



preoccupied. 



This genus differs from the other codfishes in tbe structure of tbe trans- 

 verse processes of the vertebra', which are club-shaped, narrow at base, 

 but expanding distally into a rounded hollow bulb at their tips. Skeleton 

 otherwise essentially as in Microijadu?, the skull similar. Small codfishes 

 of the Arctic seas. {eXeyivo^, a social fish mentioned by Aristotle.) 



2906. ELEGINUS iVAVAGA (Kolreuter). 

 (Wachna Cod.) 



Head 3.f in length of body ; depth (5 ; eye 5| in head ; snout 3 ; intcror- 

 bital space 4i ; gill rakers 20 or 21 ; barbel small, equal to pupil; dorsal 

 13-18-18; anal 22-20; scales small, 157 transverse rows above lateral line 

 from gill opening to first rudimentary caudal rays. Body slender and 

 rounded with a rather long head; snout viewed from above rounded, but 

 running to a rather sharp point when viewed from the side; lower jaw 

 included, the fleshy snout projecting beyond the maxillary, its length 

 slightly greater than that of the snout ; tip of maxillary on a Aertical with 

 the front of the pupil; articulation of mandible with quadrate bone on a 

 vertical running midway between pupil and po.sterior edge of eye; teeth 



* The following is the count of fln rays in 13 specimens of Theragra of the two species : 



3030 82 



