320 LTCODIDiE. 



the second above the vent. Each scale lighter than the ground- 

 colour. — Pyloric appendages rudimentary. 



Greenland. 



Eighteen inches long. 



2. Lycodes perspicillum. 



Kroyer in Dansh. Vidensk. Selsk. Afhandl. xi. 1845, p. ccxxxiii, and in 

 Gaim. Voy. Scand. Poiss. pi. 7. 



The height of the body is more than one-half of the length of the 

 head, which is one-fourth of the total. Head not quite twice as long 

 as high ; snout long, the upper maxillary extending to below the 

 middle of the eye. The distance of the vent from the ventrals is 

 nearly equal to the length of the head. Yellowish, with nine or ten 

 brownish cross-bands, edged with dark-brown, and broader than the 

 interspaces : the first occupies the upper parts of the head, and 

 encloses a pair of roimdish yellowish spots situated behind the level 

 of the eyes ; the second cross-band is on and before the anterior 

 dorsal rays. 



Greenland. 



3. Lycodes reticulatus. 

 Reitihardt, I. c. p. 167. tab. 6. 



D. 93-95. A. 75. V. 4. Cecc. pyl. 2. 



The height of the body is one-half of the length of the head, which 

 is one-fourth of the total. Head twice as long as high ; snout long, 

 the maxillary extending to behind the middle of the eye. The 

 distance of the vent from the ventrals is somewhat more than the 

 length of the head. Trunk scaly ; vertical fins naked. Brownish, 

 with reticulated black lines on the head and body ; those on the 

 body being disposed in five groups or cross-bands, the three anterior 

 of which emit one or two vertical streaks on the dorsal fin. 



Greenland. 



Fourteen inches long. 



4. Lycodes seminudus. 



Reinhardt, I. c. p. 223. 



D. 91. A. 71. Ctec. pyl. 2. 



The height of the body is less than the length of the head, which 

 is two-sevenths of the total. Head twice as long as high ; snout long. 

 The distance of the vent from the ventrals is somewhat more than the 

 length of the head. Trunk and vertical fins naked. Colours uniform. 



Omenak (Greenland). 



Seventeen inches long. 



5. Lycodes mucosus. 

 Richards. Last of the Arct. Voy. p. 362. pi. 26. 



D. 90. A. 70. V. 3. Yert. 26/66. Ceec. pyl. 2. 

 Without any scales. The height of the body is more than one- 



