DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 269 



of body crossed at sliort intervals by transverse undulating folds of skin, the edge of the 

 fold with minute rough scales, causing it to apjiear sharj)ly and linely serrate, dill mem- 

 braues united, free from isthmus. Dorsal spines rather high and slender; veutrals appar- 

 ently I, 3. 



TRIGLOPS PINGELII, Reiniiaedt. (Figure 25G.) 



Triijlops Pingelii, Reinhardt, Vid. Sclsk. Natur. och M.itli. Afliandl., 1838, 114-118.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., II, 173; Proc. ZoJil. Soc. London. 1877, 475; Challiu.ner Rfi)ort, x.xii, 1887, 63. — Collett 

 Norges Fisk., 36; Norsk, Xordh. Exped. Fisk.. 38, Pi. i, Figs, 9, 10. — Tai.LjEiiORG, Svcrig. och Norg. Fisk. 

 168.— GooDE & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 187it.— Jordan and Gilbeut, Bull. x\i, U. S, Nat, Mus,, 715. 



TrigJops pleiirostictm, Cope, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 81. 



Head very slender, its length 3i in that of body. Eye large, placed high, but lateral; 

 its diameter one-third the length of head, longer than snout, and 3 times width of infer- 

 orbital space. Preopercular spines 4, short. Maxillary extending to below middle of orbit. 

 Nasal spines sharp. Ventral fins rather short; iiectorals extending to front of anal. Tail 

 very slender, its diameter less than the eye. Anal papilla of male large. 



Eadial formula: D. ix, 21; A. 21. 



Color olivaceous, somewhat variegated with darker ; fins barred ; a series of dusky spots 

 along sides; anocellated black spot on juisterior part of spinous dorsal. 



An Ai'ctic .sjjecies, found off Greenland, Nova Zembla, Norway, and extending in the 

 Western Atlantic southward to the latitudes of New England. 



Specimens were taken on the American coast by the steamer Alhnfross from the follow- 

 ing localities: Station 24GG, in 45° 29' N. lat., 5.")0 24' W. Ion., at a depth of «7 fathoms; sta- 

 tior 2440, in 46° 20' N. lat., 49° 52' W. Ion., at a depth of 40 fathoms; station 2501, in 44° 27' 

 N. lat., 00° 20' 15" W. Ion., at a depth of 20 fathoms; station- 2440, in 43° 38' N. lat., 49° 

 49' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 33 tathoms; station 2492, in 45° 22' N. lat., 58° 43' 45" W. Ion., 

 at.a depth of 75 fathoms; station 2449, in 46° 37' N. lat., 49° 50' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 

 39 fatlioins; station 2438, in 43° 30' N. lat., 50° 03' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 37 fathoms; 

 station 2441, in 45° 27' N. lat., 49° 42' W. Ion., at a depth of 34 fathoms; station 2445, iu 

 46° 09' 30" N. lat., 49° 48' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 39 fathoms; station 2444, in 45° 59' N. 

 lat., 490 45' 30" W. Ion., at a dei)th of .39 fathoms ; station 2.j20, in 42° 41 ' N. lat., 04° 55' 30" 

 W. Ion., at a depth of 02 fiithoms; station 2058, in 41o 57' 30" N. lat., 07° 58' W. Ion., at a 

 depth of 35 fathoms; station 2451, in 40° 58' N. lat., 50-^34' W. Ion., at a depth of 67 

 fathoms; station 2450, iu 46° 45' N. lat., 50° 02' 30" W. Ion.; at a depth of 44 fathoms. 



COTTUNCULUS, Collett. 



Cottiinciihis, Collett, Norges Fiske, 1875, 20 (type, Coffunculua mirroi)s, Collett).— Jordan and Gillbert, 

 Bull. XVI, U, S, N.at. Mus., 687,— GrNTiiEU, C'liallenger Report, xxii, 1887, 60. 



Tadpole shaped, the head extremely large, the body tapering from shoulders to the 

 slender tail; mouth rather large, terminal, oblique; villiform teeth iu the jaws; a double 

 patch on vomer; no teeth on the palatines; no spines on the head, the tubercular surface 

 of the skull covered by skin; skull thm, its bones not firm. Gills 3A, no .slit behind the 

 last arch; gill-inembranes broadly joined to the isthmus, their union extending to above 

 the lower edge of the base of the pectorals. Pseudobranchi;c very small; no cirri, scales, 

 or prickles; the skin thin and movable, smooth, or roughened with small warts. Spinous 

 dorsal little deveh)ped; the two fins usually continuous; spines very .slender, flexible, em- 

 bedded in the skin; jiectorals short, procurrent beh)w; veutrals very short, well sei)arated, 

 their rays i, 3; caudal rounded. {Jordan and Gilbert.) 



COTTUNCULUS MICROPS, Collett. (Figures 257 and 261, A, B.) 



Cottunculus microps, Collett, Norges Fiske, 1875, 20, pi. i, figs. 1-3; Meildelelser 0111 Norges Fiske, Aarcna, 

 1875-'78, 1879, 11; Forh. Vid, Selsk,, Christiania, 1880, U; Norsk. Xordh, Exped., 18, pi. i, figs. .-.,6; Nvt. 

 Mag. f. Naturvid., xviii, 1884.53.— Stk()M, Norsk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift., 1880, 7.-..— Gooni:, Proe. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1880, 479.— GooDE and Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool,, x, 1883, 212.— LiLL-rruinRc, Sverig. och 

 Norg. Fiske, 113.— Jordan and Gilhert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 689 (description quoted below from 

 lull-grown specimens),— GtiNTHER, Challenger Report, x.xil, 1887, 60, pi. ix, fig. A. 



