Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 2547 



rounded. Color very light brown; the margins of the dorsal and anal 

 in their posterior portions, blackish. (Goode »fe Bean.) Gulf stream 

 Lat. 40° N., in 396 fathoms, {maxillm-is, pertaining to the ui^per jaw.) 



Lotella maxillaris, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 241, Lat. 39° 55' N., Long. 70^ 28' W. 

 in 396 fathoms (Type, No. 29832. Coll. Fish Hawk) ; GooDE & Bean, Oceauic Ichthy- 

 ology, 368, 1896. 



987. PHYSICULUS, Kaup. 



Physiculus, Kaup, Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1858, 88 (dalwigkii). 



Body elongate, covered with small scales; head entirely scaly; snout 

 broad, obtusely rounded, projecting beyond the mouth; mouth of mod- 

 erate size; chin with a barbel ; jaws with bauds of villiform teeth; vomer 

 and palatines toothless. Dorsals 2; anal fin single, not notched; ventral 

 fin with 5 rays, the outer ray filamentous; caudal rounded, slender, free; 

 branchiostcgals 7. {6vxii, an ancient name of some fish living in the 

 Fiicus, (l>vHoi, probably a species of Gohius.) 



a. Scales moderate, about 62 in a longitudinal series; gill rakers fe\T ; dorsal rays 10-49 

 anal 54; ventral reaching fourth anal ray. FDLVUS, 2918 



aa. Scales very small, about 100 in a longitudinal series. 



6. Gill rakers few, about 11 below arch; head 4 in length; depth 5; ventrals fila 

 mentous at tii), as long as head, reaching tenth ray of anal. 



nematopus, 2919 



66. Gill rakers undescrihed, probably few; head 4 in length; depth 5; ventrals 



shorter than head, reaching front of anal. kaupi, 2920 



bbb. Gill rakers very numerous, 7+18; head 3 J in length; depth 42 ; ventrals 



reaching seventh anal ray. rastrelliger, 2921, 



2918. PHYSICULUS FULVUS, Bean. 



Head about 4; depth 4f. D. 10-49; A. 54; V.7; scales 6-61 to 62-16. 

 Head broad and depressed; snout short; eye 3i in head; the length of the 

 upper jaw 2^ in head, about eqtial to space between ventrals and anal 

 origin ; maxillary not quite reaching vortical through hind margin of eye ; 

 barbel 6 in head. Teeth in narrow bands in jaw; no outer series of 

 enlarged teeth, but a few in the middle of the bauds in each jaw are 

 slightly larger than the others; all of the teeth, however, inconspicuous; 

 vomer and palate smooth. Vent situated about under third ray of first 

 dorsal ; distance of first dorsal from tip of snout equaling 3 times length of 

 its base, its longest ray twice length of snout, and slightly exceeding length 

 of longest of second dorsal ; length of second dorsal base 3 times length 

 of pectoral, Avhich is nearly .5i times in total without caudal. Origin of 

 anal about in a vertical let fall from base of fifth ray of first dorsal; dis- 

 tance of ventral from tip of snout about 5f times in body. Tip of ven- 

 tral when extended backward reaching base of fourth anal ray; length 

 of middle caudal ray 3 in head. Lateral line very indistinct, situated 

 rather high, following pretty closely the contour of back. Gill rakers 

 moderately short and not numerous. General color a light yellowish 

 brown ; under surface of head, the abdomen, margins of dorsal and anal 

 fins, lips, and axil of pectoral very dark brown; a dark brown blotch on 

 the suboperculum; inside of mouth and gill membranes white. (Bean.) 



