1. LYCOUES. 321 



half of the length of the head, which is one-fourth of the total. Head 

 twice as long as high ; snout long. The distance of the vent from 

 the ventrals is more than the length of the head. Vertical fins 

 enveloped in lax skin. Dark-brownish-black, with irregular white 

 markings in the form of five narrow bars across the back ; lower 

 parts of the head and tnmk whitish. 

 Northumberland Sound. 



a. Fine specimen. From the Haslar Collection. — Type of the species. 



6. Ly codes polaris. 



Blennius polaris, Sabine in Parry's Journ. Voy. 1819-20, Suppl. p. 212 ; 

 Ross, Ajyp. to Parry's Voy. p. 200, and Apji. to the Narrat. of a Se- 

 cond Voy. p. 52. no. 8. 



Zoarces polaris, Richards. Faun. Ror.-Amer. Fish. p. 94. 



Lyeodes polaris, Richards. Last Arct. Voy. p. 362. 



" Without any scales. Length of the pectoral exceeding twice its 

 breadth, having fifteen rays. Yellowish, lighter on the belly, with 

 eleven large saddle-shaped markings across the back, the middle of 

 these markings being much Hghter than their edges ; the whole back 

 and the sides marbled." 



Coast of North Georgia, near 75° lat. 



b. Ventral fins longer than one-fourth of the pectorals ; pyloric appendages 



none : Iluoccefcs et Phucncates, JenjTis, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, pp. 165 & 

 168.— Falkland Islands ; Chiloe. 



7. Lyeodes latitans. 

 Phucocoetes latitans, Jenym, l. c. p. 168. pi. 29. fig. 3. 

 D. 103. A. 72. V. 3. 



Brownish ; head with some lighter spots. 

 Falkland Islands. 

 a, b, c. Adult and half-grown. Falkland Islands. Presented by 

 \V. Wright, Esq. 



D€scrij>tion. — Head, body and fins enveloped in a tough and lax 

 skin ; head depressed, broader than high, its greatest width being 

 contained once and three-fourths in its length, which is one- 

 sixth of the total. Snout obtusely rounded, with the upper jaw 

 overlapping the lower, t-nnce as long as the smaU eye, the diameter 

 of which is one-eighth of the length of the head. Cleft of the mouth 

 horizontal, of moderate width, the maxUlaiy not exten^jrig to below 

 the posterior margin of the ej-e. The teeth in the jaws, on the vomer 

 and the palatine bones are rather small, conical, in a single scries ; 

 two, in front of the upper and lower jaws, arc a little larger than the 

 rest, and there are some other small teeth behind them. The single 

 nostril is situated anteriorly on the end of the snout, at the extremity 

 of a short cutaneous tube: a row of pores along the upper jaw. Inter- 

 orbital space flat, and much wider than the eye. Gill-opening very 



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