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Color: The grouud-color is light umber; abdomen grayish brown 5 

 lower parts of head cream. A band of cream on the anal extends from 

 the origin of the rays to about their middle. A crescentic band of the 

 same color, mottled with umber, crosses the nape, and continues behind 

 the pectorals, blending there with the first lateral band. A streak of 

 cream, more or less interrupted by umber, extends backwards from the 

 eye across the cheek, almost to the end of the operculum. Ten bands 

 of cream-color, bordered with dark umber, start from the tips of the 

 dorsal rays and extend into the lower half of the body, becoming wider 

 and somewhat broken below the middle of the body. These cross-bands 

 are located at the second, ninth, seventeenth, twenty-fifth, thirty-fourth, 

 forty -third, fifty-second, sixtieth, sixty-eighth, and seventy-seventh dorsal 

 rays. There is, besides, a very indistinct caudal tip of cream-color. 



In the table of proportions appended, a statement appears as to how 

 many times the length of dilierent parts of the body is contained in the 

 total length, or in the length of the head, when that seems more con- 

 venient. 



Table of Measurements. 



j Lycodes mucosus. 



Current number of specimen . 

 Locality 



10,930. 



Cumberland 

 Gulf. 



L. VerriUii. 



]Srillim. 



Length to end of middle caudal rays 

 Body : 



<Treatcst heiiibt 



Greatest width 



Width at vent 



Height at ventrals 



Height at vent 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Distance from snout to nape 



Greati^st width 



Width of Lnterorbital area 



Length of snout 



Distance of nostrils from eye 



Length of upper Jaw 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Long diameter of eye 



Dorsal : 



Distance from snout ., 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Branchiostogals 



I )or,sal 



Anal 



I'cctoral 



Ventral 



lOOths. 



VI 



90 



71 



18 



3 



*12i 



ill 



13 



20 



17i 

 4i 

 9* 

 6.i 



16 



15 

 9i 

 2i 



31 

 5 

 7 



55 

 3 



6i 



15 



28 

 2J 



Off Nova 

 Scotia. 



L. TumerL 



21,529. 



St. Michael's, 

 Alaska. 



Millim. lOOths. 



Millim. lOOths. 



330 



m 



11 



4 

 6i 



26 



35i 



18 

 16J 



tl2 



111 



5i 



11 



9i 



23 

 16 

 17 

 4 



VI 



85 



67 



18 



3 



14 



13 

 7 

 2^ 



25 

 4^ 



7 



51 



4 

 5i 



24 

 15 



21 

 3J 



* At pectorals. 



Proc. Nat. Mus. 78- 



t Near middle of body. I Behind pectorals. 



— 30 April 35, 1879. 



