782 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. • 
1S9?'. A. Siitifrosjs Steenstriip & Hallgritnsson. 
UroYTi, obscurely spotted with darker; the sides without dark bars. 
Head broad, the profile not strongly decurved; teeth much smaller; 
vomerine teeth not extending nearly as far back as the palatine series. 
Pectorals three-hfths length of head ; dorsal fin not very high, begin- 
ning above the gill-opening, the longest spine less than half head; 
caudal 2.f in head. Head 5; depth 4. D. LXYII; A. 45. {CoUett.) 
Xorth Atlantic. 
(Steenstriip & Hallgrimsson, Forli. Skand. Natnrf. 3 die jMote, 1842,647 ; Beau, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 218, 1879; Collett, Meddelsk. Norges Fiske, 1879, 46.) 
1B9§. A. SeptssB’MS Bean. 
Hark brown, without bands or spots ; belly pale, clouded with very 
dark brown. Head moderate; maxillary half as long as head; 4 large 
canines in the upper jaw and 5 in the lower, all of them strongly re- 
curved; behind the canines in each jaw are a few sharp, conical teeth, 
also recurved; palatine teeth in 2 series, 4 in the outer and 5 in the 
inner series, those in the outer series the longer; vomerine teeth in 2 
series, the vomerine patch beginning in advance of the palatine, and 
extending farther back than the latter; head and hns scaleless; median 
line of body, and all of tail with small, widely-separated scales. Head 
44; depth 5. D, LXXXI; A. 52. {Bean.) xVlaska. 
(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. ii, 212, 1879: V. Anarrldvlias orientalis Pallas, Zoogr. 
Ross.-Asi;}t. iii, 77, 1811.) 
424.— AIVARRIIICIITHYS Ayres. 
(Ayres, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 32, 1^55; type Anarrhlchthys oceJlatns Ayres.) 
Body elongate, tapering backward into a very long and compressed 
tail, around which the dorsal and anal are confluent with the caudal. 
Scales rudimentary; no lateral line. Dorsal high, composed entirely 
of flexible spines; pectoral fins broad, placed low; no ventral fins. 
Head very large, comiiressed, the snout rather short; mouth large; 
jaws with very strong, conical canines anteriorly; vomer and palatines 
each with about 2 rows of coarse molars, the palatine band shutting 
against similar teeth on the sides of the lower jaw. Gill-membranes 
broadly united to the isthmus. Xo pyloric cmca. Large fishes of the 
Xorth Pacific, {ayappiyaq^ Anarrhichas ; i/Ouq, fish.) 
1 199. A. oceSlntus Ayres. 
Dark grayish or greenish, the body and dorsal fin everywhere cov- 
ered with round, ocellated black spots of various sizes, the light mark- 
