

2. GTMNELIS. 323 



doi-sal and anal with the margins of the same colour; a brown streak 

 from the eye to the front part of the snout. 

 Length of the larger specimen 5 inches. 



9. Ly codes fimbriatus. 

 Duocoetes fimbriatus, Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 166. pi. 29. fig. 2. 

 B. 5. D. ca 80. C. ca 15. A. ca 60. V. 3. 



The edges of both jaws are fringed with a row of tubiform cuta- 

 neous appendages. The height of the body is rather more than one- 

 half of the length of the head, which is one-fifth of the total. Upper 

 jaw overlapping the lower ; the maxillary extends to below the 

 posterior margin of the eye. Snout as long as the eye, the diameter 

 of which is one-fourth of the length of the head ; interorbital space 

 narrow. The dorsal commences above the extremity of the operculum. 

 The distance of the vent from the base of the pectoral is nearly equal 

 to the length of the head. Ventral fin thin, like a short filament, 

 one-third of the length of the pectoral, which is two-thirds of that 

 of the head. Coloration uniform. {Jen.) 



Archipelago of Chiloe. 



2. GYMNELIS, 



Gymnelis, Heinh. Damk. Vidensk. Selsk. Afhandl. vii. 18-38, p. 1.31. 

 Cepolophis, Kaup in Wiegm. Arch. 1856, p. 96. 



Body elongate, naked (scaly in O. stigma). Eye of moderate size 

 or rather small. Vertical fins united ; ventrals none. Vent situated 

 at some distance backwards from the head. Small conical teeth in 

 the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. Jaws equal ante- 

 riorly. Barbel none. Six branchiostegals ; gill-opening narrow, the 

 gill-membranes being attached to the isthmus ; pseudobranchia3 pre- 

 sent. Air-bladder none. Pyloric appendages two ; no prominent 

 anal papilla. 



Arctic Seas of America. (South coast of England.) 



1. Gymnelis viridis. 



Ophidium viridc, Fnhr. Faun. GrmxL p. 141 ; BL Svhn. p. 486 ; Ross, 

 Su)ypl. Parn/'s Third Voi/. p. 110 ; Beinh. in Dansk. Vidensk. Sekk, 

 Afh. v. 18.32, p. liv. 



unemak, Lacop. ii. p. 280. 



Gymnelis viridis, Rcinh. I. c. vii. 1838, p. 131; Gaim. Voy. Srand. Poiss. 

 pi. 15; Birhard.i. Last Ard. Vni/. p. 367. pi. 29 (head too long, 

 origin of the dorsal too far advanced); Kaup, Apodal Fish. p. 1.56. 



viridis, var. imimacidatus, Bichards. I. c. p. .371. pi. 30. 



Cepolophis viridis, Kaup in TVicgm. Arch. I. c. 



B. 6. D. 100. A. 80. Vert. 22/71 (Rich.). Ctec. pyl. 2. 



The dorsal fin commences above the posterior part of the pectoral. 

 The skin which covers the dorsal fin or its base with one or several 

 round black spots. 



Coasts of Arctic America. 



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