1. GADUS. 333 



lins separated from each other by an interspace. Proportions of 

 the fins : — 



ID. 2D. 3D. 1 A. 2 A. 



a. 1:2: 1-1 : 1-8 : 1-2 



b. 1 : 2 : 1-5 : 1-9 : ' 1-5 



Lateral line black ; a blackish blotch below the lateral line, between 

 pectoral and first dorsal. 



British coasts. German Ocean. American shores of the North 

 Atlantic. 



a. Adult: stuffed. Frith of Forth. 

 h-d. Fine specimens. London market. 

 e. Half-grown : stuffed. English coast. 

 /. Half-grown : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 

 g. Adult : skeleton. British. 



h. Half-grown : skeleton. Piu'chased of M. Parzudaki. 

 /. Adult: skull. German Ocean. From Dr. A. Giinther's Col- 

 lection. 



Detailed descriptions of this species may be found in the works of 

 ParneU, YarreU, XUsson, and of Fries and Ekstrom ; the account oi 

 the latter authors is accompanied with an excellent figure. 



The skeleton of this species is distinguished by the dilated par- 

 apophyses of the abdominal vertebra?, which are proportionally much 

 longer than in Gadus morrhua : whilst these processes are shorter 

 than the neural spines in the latter species, they exceed those spines 

 in length in the Haddock. A second peculiarity exists in the lower 

 (anterior) portion of the humerus, which is not thin and transparent 

 a.s in the Codfish, but swollen into a more or less thick osseous mass. 



7. Gadus euxinus. 



Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Russ. Merid. iii. p. .526. pi. 26. fig. 2 (good). 



D. 13-14 I 16-17 I 20. A. 30 | 20-21. 



Barbel veiy small ; snout protruding, conical, much longer than 

 the eye, with the upper jaw longest. Upper jaw with a canine-like 

 tooth on each side. The height of the body is less than the length 

 of the head, which is contained thrice and three-quarters in the total 

 (without caudal). The vent is situated vertically below the middle 

 of the first dorsal. Anal fins not continuous, close together. Caudal 

 truncated. Proportions of the fins : — 



ID. 2D. 3D. 1 A. 2 A. 

 1 : 1-4 : 1-3 : 27 : 13 



A black spot superiorly at the base of the pectoral. 

 Black Sea. Adriatic. 



fl. Ten inches long. Coast of Dalmatia. Purchased of Dr. J. Heckel 

 as C minutrxs. 



