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tirst dorsal fin commencing behind vertical from base of pectoral, some- 

 what higher than long, and not higher than second; second dorsal com- 

 mencing immediately behind the first, its rays increasing somewhat in 

 lengtli posteriorly, one of the longest being \ as long as head, the whole 

 fin naked; caudal fin slender, slightly ronnded, entirely free from dor- 

 sal and anal, and nearly \ as long as head; anal fin commencing at some 

 distance behind the rent, which is situated below the origin of the first 

 dorsal, very similar to the second dorsal; pectoral inserted somewhat 

 T)elow middle of body, its length equaling distance between front margin 

 of eye and end of operculum; ventrals narrow, slender, the outer ray pro- 

 duced into a filament shorter than the pectoral. Scales extending over 

 the whole head, the chin and the thin lips being naked. (Giinther.) 

 Tropical Atlantic. This form, originally described from Nice, has since 

 been found at Madeira by Johnson, and at Naples and ( "atania by Giglioli. 

 The Blake ol)tained a poor specimen, apparently of this form, at station 

 LXXXI, off the Island of Nevis, in the West Indies. (Goode & Bean.) 

 (Eu.) (A personal name for one of " quelques hommes que les talens, le 

 merits, la gloire ou I'amitie m'ont d^signe's.") 



Oadus maraldi, Kisso, Ichth. Nice, 123, pi. 6, fig. 13, 1810, Nice. 



Merlucius attemiatus, Cocco. 



Gadella gracilis, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1843, 91, Madeira. (Type in University of 



Cambridge.) 

 Merhicius maraldi, RlSSO, Eur. M6rid., ni, 220, 1826. 

 TTralepfMS viaraldi, GOnther, Cat., iv, 349, 1862; GDnther, Challenger Report, xxn, 87, 



1887; GooDE & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 367, fig. 320, 1896. 



986. LOTELLA, Kaup. 



Lotella, Kaup, Archiv fur Natnrgesch. 1858, 88 (schlegeli). 



This genus differs from Physiculns chiefly in the presence in both jaws 

 of an outer row of large teeth. Deep sea. (Name, a diminutive o£ Lota.) 



2917. LOTELLA MAXILLARIS, Bean. 



Head about 4|; depth 5. D. 5-55; A. 44; V. 10; scales about 7 or 8- 

 115-14 or 15. Snout short; eye 3 in head; maxillary reaching vertical 

 through anterior margin of pupil, its length equaling that of postor- 

 liital part of head. Teeth in narrow bands in .jaws, the outer series 

 enlarged; vomer and palate apparently witliout teeth. Vent situated 

 about under eighth ray of second dorsal; distance of first dorsal from tip 

 of snout 4 times in total length including caudal; ventrals extending to 

 about vertical from origin of second dorsal, not reaching nearly to vent; 

 longest ray of first dorsal a little more than ^ as long as head; none of 

 the rays of second dorsal or of anal as long as first ray of first dorsal; 

 longest ray of second dorsal not much exceeding i of height of body; 

 longest ray of anal about i length of ventral; origin of anal about under 

 tenth ray of second dorsal; ventrals situated about under beginning of 

 posterior third of head, their length i that of second dorsal base; origin 

 of pectoral somewhat in advance of that of first dorsal, the fin imperfect, 

 but its length probably slightly exceeding that of ventral; caudal 



