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b. Scales absent LYCoi>,u.Eris 



2. Vomer toothless, palatiucs ileutigerous. 



rt. Scales present, iiiilieiklrd Ai'Robon 



3. Vomer aiitl palatines toothless. 



a. Scales present Lycodopsis 



B. Vontrals absent. 



1. Scales present. 



(«. Vomer and palatines toothed [M.wnea'J 



/). Vomer and palatines toothless [Botuuocaka] 



2. Scales absent. 



a. Teetli moderate. 



I. Jaws ei[ual; body sciieless (!ymnei.is 



II. Lower jaw longest [L vkcai; \ = Uuonectes] 



h. Teeth in jaws and on vomer in asintjle scries, very ])roininent. 



I. Skin loose and movable Melanostig.ma 



LYCODES, Reinharclt. 



Lycodcs, JlEI^suATlvr, Kongl. Dansko Selsk. Afhandl., vii, 1838, 147.— Gu.vtuek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., iv, 

 785.— JoiiDAN and Gilisert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 785. 



Zoarceoid tislies with body moderately elongate, aiigiiilliform, tapeiiug beliiud. Head 

 obloug; mouth ueaily hoiizoutal; lowei jaw iucluded. Teeth coiiical ou jaws, vomerines, 

 and i)alatiiies, those on jaws and palatines usually in single series. V(^l•ti(■al tins united. 

 Origin of dorsal behind base of peetoral; peetorals moderate; ventral rudimentary, of 3 or 

 4 rays. Scales minute, imbedded, present on part or all of the body, the scaly area more 

 extensive in the adult than in the young. No air bladder nor pyloric ca'ca. 



LYCODE.S VAIlLll, KEixiiAiiDT. 



Lycotles rnft/ij, ReiniiaRPT, Kongelige Dauske Videnskaberues Selskabs natnrvidenskabeligo ogmtitbema- 

 tiske Afhandl., VII, 1838,153, tal). v. — GiLi,, Catalognoof the Fishes ot the Eastern Coast iif Nortli America, 

 1861, 46 ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbiladelphia, 1863, 260, (Sept. ) ; Catalogue, Fishes of East Coast of North 

 America, 1873, 18. — Guntuek, Catalogue of tlie Fishes in the British Museum, l\% 1862, 31!). " 



Height of body one-eighth of its length. Head nearly twice as long as higii, its length 

 four and one-third times in that of body; snout long, the maxillary reaching to <i[>posite 

 middle of eye. Distance of vent from veutrals nearly etjual to length of iiead ; ventral tins 

 less than one-fourth as long as pectorals ; vertical fins scaly ; body wholly scaly. 



Eadial formula: D. IKi; A. 93; V. 4; Vert. 25+87. 



Color brownish yellow, witii (i blackish cross bands extending on the dorsal fin and 

 continent on the belly; the lirst cros.s band on and below the anterior dorsal rays, the second 

 above the vent; adults nearly uniform l)lackish. 



This species is as yet known only from Greenland, whence was obtained this type of 

 Eeinhardt. 



LYCODES ESMARKII, Collktt. (Fig. 272.) 



Lycodes Esmarkii, Collett, Norges Fiske, 1874, 95; Norske Nord-IIavs. Exp., 1880, 81. 

 Lycodea Vahlii, Gooije and Be.^^, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 201) (not of Reinhardt). 



A Lycodes with body moderately elongate, its height oneeightli of its length. Length 

 of head two-ninths that of body; snout obtuse; maxillary not more than half :is long as head. 

 Vertical fins, nape and body behind fnmt of (hmsal scaly. Lateral line indistinct, divided. 

 Length of pectorals eigiit times in that ot body. 



Kadial formula: D. 110; A. 95; P. 22; V. 4. 



Color brownish black, with a whitish yellow patch on the nape, and 5 to S (ransverse 

 bands of the same color across the dorsal and posteriorly across the anal, these bands becom- 

 ing broken into annular spots with age. 



The TJ. S. Fish Commission received from Capt. Z. Hawkins and the crew of the schooner 

 Owendohii, ( (f Gloucester, Mass., a fine specimen of a species of Lijaxh-s, obtained on La Have 

 Bank, in latitude 42o 43' N., and between the meridians of (i2- 20' and fi3 ^ 30' \\'., at a depth 

 of 300 to 400 fathoms, the schooner having changed position while fishing. A second speci 



