802 CONTEIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
ratlier broad; anterior nostrils each with a small barbel; chin with a 
long barbel; snout and lower parts of head naked; mouth moderate, 
the lower jaw included; both jaws with broad bauds of equal, villiform 
teeth, vomer with a broad, crescent-shaped band of similar teeth; no 
teeth on palatines. Gill-oi)eniugs wide, the membrane somewhat con- 
nected, free from the isthmus. Scales very small, imbedded ; vertical 
fins scaly. Dorsal fins two, the first short, the second long, similar to 
the anal; caudal rounded, its outer rays procurreut; ventrals of several 
rays. One species, living in fresh Avaters of northern regions. {Lota^ 
the ancient name.) 
It236. h. maculosa. (Le S.) C. & V. — But-hot; LaTce Laicyer ; Ling. 
Dark olive, thickly marbled and reticulated with blackish; yellowish 
or dusky beneath; young often sharply marked, the adult becoming 
dull-grayish; vertical fins with dusky margins. Maxillary reaching to 
posterior margin of eye; barbel longer than the very small eye; pec- 
toral If in head; ventrals reaching half way to vent. Head 4§; depth 
6. D. 13-76; A. 68; Y. 7; vertebrae 21-4-38; coeca 30. L. 2 feet. New 
England and Great Lake region, north to the Arctic seas; abundant 
northward; also (var. vulgaris) throughout Northern Europe and Asia. 
(Gadus lota L. Syst. Nat.: Gadiis maculosus Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. PMla. 
i, 83, 1873: Lota compressa, inornata, aud maculosa Dekay, New York Fauna, Fish. 1842, 
283-285: Lota vulgaris Jenyns, Manual Brit. Vert. 448: Lota vulgaris Gunther, iv, 359.) 
442.— BROSMIUS Cuvier. 
Cnsl'S. 
(Cuvier, R^giie Anira. ii, 1817: type Gadus hrosrne Muller.) 
Body moderately elongate, covered with very small scales. Mouth 
rather large, with teeth in the jaws, vomer, and palatines, some of 
those on the vomer and palatines enlarged; chin with a barbel; 
branchiostegals 7. Dorsal fin single, continuous, not elevated; anal 
fin similar, but shorter; caudal fin rounded; ventral fins several-rayed. 
Fishes of the Northern seas. (A latinization of the vernacular name 
hrosrne.) 
1237'. B. brosme (Muller) White. — Cttslc. 
Brownish, mottled; young uniform dark slate-color, or with trans- 
verse yellow bands; vertical fins bordered with blackish, and with a 
white edge. Head flattened above; upper jaw slightly longer than 
lower; mouth large, oblique; maxillary reaching beyond orbit. Head 
