788 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH .AMERICAN ICHTIIYOLOGY IV. 



anterior half of pectoral; anal under twenty-first dorsal ray; tail stout. 

 Head 4; depth 7^; B. G. D. 87 (with half of caudal); A. 87 (with half 

 of caudal); P. 18; Y. 3. L. 20 inches. Big Diomede Island, Bering's 

 Strait. (Bean.) 

 (Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. iv, 144, 18S1.; 



42§.— ]LYC©I>AL.EPfi.S Bleeker. 

 (Bleeker, Vcrl. Akad. Amst. ctl. 2, viii, 3(i9: typo Lycodcs mucosus Rich.) 



This genus differs from Lycodcs in the total absence of scales. 

 [Xit/.coorj:, Lycodcs; aXs-tc, without scales.) 



1211. I^. EaiMCOSMS (Rich.) Bleeker. 



Blackish, with irregular white markings in the form of 5 narrow bars 

 across the back; lower x>arts of head and trunk whitish. Body robust; 

 head very large; snout long, its length 3 in head; mouth large, the 

 maxillary extending to beyond eye; distance from vent to ventrals 

 more than length of head; eye very small, 11 in head. Ventrals very 

 small; pectorals large and broad. Head 3}; depth 8. D. i)0; A. 70; 

 V. 3; vert. 2G+CG; coeca 2. L. 18 inches. Arctic seas. 



{Lycodcs mncosiis Rich. Last Arctic Voyage, 362: Lycodcs mucosus GUnther, iv, 320: 

 Lycodes 7hucosus Beau, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv, 112, 1871).) 



1312. I<. tUJ'BBea-i (Beau) J. & G. 



Light brown, grayish below; a cream-colored band on anal; a cres- 

 centic band of cream-color crosses the nape, and continues behind the 

 pectorals; 10 bands of cream-color, bordered with brown, from the tips 

 of the dorsal rays to the Ipwer half of body, becoming wider, and 

 broken below the middle; caudal tipped with pale. Head dei)ressed; 

 maxillary reaching to opposite posterior margin of eye; distance from 

 ventrals to vent less than length of head. Head 41-; depth 8. D. 83; 

 A. G7; P. 18; Y. 3. Saint Michael's, Alaska. (Bean.) 



{Lycodes turncri Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 4(33.) 



1213. Jj. poDas-is (Sahine) J. & G. 



"Without any scales; length of the pectoral exceeding twice its 

 breadth, having 15 rays. Yellowish, lighter on the belly, with 11 large 

 saddle like markings across the back, the middle of these markings 

 being much lighter than their edges; the whole back and the sides 

 marbled." {GUnther.) Coast of North Georgia. An imi)erfectly de- 

 scribed species, unknown to late writers. 



{Blennius polaris Sabine, Parry's Jouru. Voy. 1819-'20, Suppl. 219: Lycodcs polaris 

 Gilnther, iv, 321.) 



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