788 CONTKIIU’TIONS TO XORTII AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY lY. 
anterior half of pectoral; anal niuler twenty-first dorsal ray; tail stont. 
Head 4; depth 74; U. 0. B. 87 (with half of caudal); A. 87 (with half 
of caudal); P. 18; Y". 3. L. 20 inches. Big Diomede Island, Bering’s 
Strait. {Bean.) 
(Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. iv, 144, 1881.) 
428.— LYCC&EfALEPfJS Bleeker. 
(Bleeker, Vcrl. Akasl. Amst. e<l. 2, viii, 369: type Lycodes mucosus Rich.) 
This genus diflers from Lycodes in the total absence of scales. 
{?.uy.a>dr^::, Lycodes ; witliout scalcs.) 
1211. E. ESIHCOSMS (Rich.) Bleeker. 
Blackish, with irregular white markings in the form of 5 narrow bars 
across the back; lower parts of head and trunk whitish. Body robu.st; 
head very large; snout long, its length 3 in head; moutb large, tlie 
maxillary extending to beyond eye; distance from vent to ventrals 
more than length of head; eye very small, 11 in head. Ventrals very 
small; pectorals large and broad. Head 34; depth 8. D. 00; A. 70; 
V. 3; vert. 20 +GG; coeca 2. L. 18 inches. Arctic seas. 
{Lycodes mucosus Rich. Last Arctic Voyage, 36‘2: Lycodes mucosus GUuther, iv, 320: 
Lycodes mucosus Bean, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv, 112, 1879.) 
1212. JL. twi’BScri (Beau) J. & G. 
Light brown, grayish below; a cream-colored band on anal; a cres- 
centic band of cream-color crosses the nape, and continues behind the 
pectorals; 10 bands of cream-color, bordered with brown, from the tii)S 
of the dorsal rays to the lower half of body, becoming wider, and 
broken below the middle; caudal tipped with iiale. Head dei)ressed; 
maxillary reaching to opposite posterior margin of eye; distance from 
ventrals to vent less than length of head. Head 44; depth 8. D. 83; 
A. G7 ; P. 18; V. 3. Saint Michael’s, i^laska. {Bean.) 
{Lycodes turncri Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 463.) 
1213. li. poQuB’is (Sahiiie) J. &, G. 
“Without any scales; length of the pectoral exceeding twice its 
breadth, having 15 rays. Yellowish, lighter on the belly, with 11 large 
saddle like markings across the back, the middle of these markings 
being much lighter than their edges; the whole back and the sides 
marbled.” {Gunther.) Coast of Yorth Georgia. An imperfectly de- 
scribed species, unknown to late writers. 
{Blennius poJaris Sabine, Parry’s .Tonru. Voy. 1819-’20, Snppl, 212: Lycodes polaris 
Giiutlier, iv, 321.) 
