782 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NOETH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



IIOY. A. latnfa'OBls Steenstrup & Hallgrimsson. 



Bro^yn, obscurely spotted with darker; tlie sides without dark bars. 

 Head broad, the profile not strongly decurved; teeth much smaller; 

 vomerine teeth not extending nearly as far back as the palatine series. 

 Pectorals three-fifths length of head ; dorsal fin not very hijih, begin- 

 ning above the gill-opening, the longest spirug less than half head; 

 caudal 2J in head. Head 5; depth 4. D. LXVII; A. 45. {CoUett.) 

 North Atlantic. 



(Steenstrup & Hallgrimssou, Forh. Skand. Naturf. 3 die Mote, 1842,647; Beau, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 218, 1879; Collett, Meddelsk. Norges Fiske, 1879, 4(5.) 



1I9§. A. Icptmrus Bean. 



Dark brown, without bands or spots ; belly pale, clouded with very 

 dark brown. Head moderate; maxillary half as long as head; 4 large 

 canines in the upper jaw and 5 in the low(«r, all of them strongly re- 

 curved; behind the canines in each jaw are a few sharj), conical teeth, 

 also recurved; i>alatine teeth in 2 series, 4 in the outer and 5 in the 

 inner series, those in the outer series the longer; vomerine teeth in 2 

 series, the vomerine patch beginning in advance of the i)alatine, and 

 extending farther back than the latter; head and fins scaleless; median 

 line of body, and all of tail with small, widely-separated scales. Head 

 4J; depths. D. LXXXI; A. 52. {Bean.) Alaska. 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 212,1879: V. Anarrliichas orientalis Pallas, Zoogr. 

 Eoss.-Asiat. iii, 77, 1811.) 



424.— AIVARRIUCHTHYS Ayres. 



(Ayres, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. i, 32, 1**'55: type Anarrhwlitliys ocellafits Ayres.) 



Body elongate, tapering backward into a very long and compressed 

 tail, around which the dorsal and anal are confluent with the caudal. 

 Scales rudimentary; no lateral line. Dorsal high, composed entirely 

 of flexible spines; x)ectoral fins broad, placed low; no ventral fins. 

 Head very large, compressed, the snout rather short; mouth large; 

 jaws with very strong, conical canines anteriorly; vomer and i)alatines 

 each with about 2 rows of coarse molars, the palatine band shutting 

 against similar teeth on the sides of the lower jaw. Gill-membranes 

 broadly united to the isthmus. No i)yloric coeca. Large fishes of the 

 North Pacific, {avappr/a:;, Aiiarrhicluts ; r/Ou^, fish.) 



1 109. A. ocellatus Ayres. 



Dark grayish or greenish, the body and dorsal fin everywhere cov- 

 ered with round, ocellated black spots of various sizes, the light mark- 



