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at a depth of 41 fatlioms; Cat. 3;>353, IT. S. N. M., from station 1159, in 40° 20' N. lat., 70-^ 

 35' W. Ion., at a depth of 55 fathoms; Cat. No. 28994, U. S. N. M., from station 1043, in 38^ 

 39' N. lat., 73-3 11' W. Ion., at a depth of 130 fathoms; Cat. No. 28700, U. S. N. M., from 

 station 937, in 39^ 49' 25" N. lat., (Vjo 49' W. Ion., at a depth of 610 fathoms; Cat. No. 2SS23, 

 U. S. N. M., from station 948, in lUizzards Bay, Penikese Island, at a depth of 7 fathoms; 

 and Cat. No. 25857, U. S. N. M., from station 802, in Narragansett Bay, at a deptli of 12.i 

 fathoms. Thu BluelujU captured three young individuals at stations 103 and 156, in Blue 

 Light Cove, at a depth of 2 fathoms, and station 182, in 15 to 23 fathoms. 



BROSMIUS, Cuvier. 



Brosmim, Cuvier, R^gne Animal, cd. 2, 1827, iii, 334 (typo, Gadus brosmc, Miiller).— Guntiier, Oat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., IV, 369.— (Jill, Proc. Acad. Nat. .Sci. Phila., 18(i:i, 241.— Jordan aud GiLBEiiT, Bull, xvi, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 802. 



Gadoids having the body moderately elongate and a single dorsal fln, and a separate 

 caudal. Mouth moderately large. Teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; some oftho.se on 

 the vomer aud palatines enlarged; ehin with a barbel; scales very small; branchiostegals 

 7. Ventral tins several rayed. 



BROSMIUS BROSME, (MiiLLEn), Guntfier. (FiKuru ,329.) 



Gadus hrosmc, MtiLLER, Prodroinu.s Zoolofiia? Daiiica', 41. 



Brosmius brosme, GfJNTHER, Cat Fish. Brit. Miis., IV, 1802, 3(i0; Proc. Uoyal Soc. Edinburgh, 1882, 



680. — GooDE and Bean, Bull. Es.sox Inst. — Lit.LJEnoiiG, Svcrlf,'e och Norg. Fiske, ii, 202. 

 Brosiniiis flavescens, HiBt.STORKR, Fish Mass., 1807, 190. (A deformed specimen?) 



Head flattened above; its length 4J times in that of body; upper jaw slightly longer 

 than lower; mouth large, ol)li(pu',; maxillary reaching beyond orbit. Height of body 6J 

 times in its length. 



Radial formula: D. 98; A. 71. 



Color, brownish, mottled; young uniform dark slate-color or with transverse yellow 

 bands; vertical fins bordered with blackish, and with a white edge. 



The Cusk or Torsk lives on the offshore banks of northern New England. In Europe, 

 according to Giinther, its range is from 30 to 120 fathoms, and an adult was obtained by 

 the Knight Errant, in 1880, in the Fariie channel, at the depth of 530 fathoms. On the 

 New England coast it is a common resident of the inshore fishing grounds, where it occurs 

 in great abundance, lurking among the stones, but is soon caught up by the fishermen after 

 the discovery of a new bank. It occurs as far out as the 250 or 300 fathoms line. 



BROSMICULUS, Vaillant. 



Brosmiculus, Vaillant, Exp. Sci. Tavaillour et Talisman, Poissous, 1888, 292 (type, llrosmicuhis imberhis, 

 Vaillant). 



A gadoid, with elongated body, a single dorsal and anal; caudal distinct; vcntrals 

 slender, 5-rayed. Teeth moderate, biserial in the jaws, none on the vomerines or palatines. 

 No barbel. No pseudol)ranchia'. 



This form is said by Vaillant to be near to Brosmiu.s. 



BROSMICULITS IMBERHIS, Vaillant. 



Brosmiciihts imberbis, Vaillant, Exp. Sci. Travailleur et Talisman, Poiss., 1888, 293. 



A BrosmicHh(.i having its body elongate, slender, its height one- fourth of i(s length. 

 Its head is twice as long as the height of the body, a little higher tlian broad, with an ob- 

 tuse, truncated muzzle, whose length is one-fourth that of the head. IMouth moderate, 

 the maxillary reaching to the vertical from the center of the eye; the lower jaw slightly 

 the longer. Teeth in both jaws small, conical, in 2 rows; vomer and palatine without 

 teeth. Diameter of the eye one-fourth the length of the head; interorbital space three- 

 tenths. No barbel. Scales simple, 81 in the lateral line, 7 above and 23 below it. Head 

 comx^letely scaly to the very extremity of the snout. 

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