[131 "I CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



535.— HYPSICOMETES Gooilo. B. (444) 



1564. Hypsicometes gobioides Goode. B. (1240) 



• 536. -MERLUCIUS Rafinesqne. (445) 



1565. Merlucius bilinearis Mitchill. N. (1247) 



1566. Merlucius merlucius LiuniBus. G. Eu. (1248) 



1567. Merlucius productus Ayres. C. (1249) 



Family CXLYI.— MACRURID^. (121) 



537.— MACRURUS 'Bloch. (447) 



1568. Macrurus berglax ' Lac^pedo. G. Eu. B. (1251) 



1569. Macnirus acrolepis ^ Bean. A. 



1570. Macrurus carminatus Goode. B. (1252) 



1571. Macrurus bairdii Goode «& Beau. B. (1253) 



1572. Macrurua asper^ Goode & Bean. B. 



538.— CORYPHiENOIDES Gunner (448) 



1573. Coryphaenoides rupestris Gunner. G. B. (1254) 



1574. CoryphaenoideB carapinus^ Goode & Bean. B. 



' Macrurus bt;r g lax ha,c6pMe = Macrurua fabridi Sundevall. To the synonymy add : 



(Macrurus berglar Lac6p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., based on Macrurus rupestris Bloch, not 

 of Gunner; the synonymy confused with that of Voryphtenoide^ rupestris, which is- 

 called " Berglax" ("Rock-Salmon") by Strom. 



^ Macrurus acrolepis Bean. 



Form of M. berglax ; width of head J its height ; interorbital width f eye, which is 

 equal to length of snout, and nearly 4 in head ; snout moderate, pointed; maxillary 

 a little more than ^ head ; second ray of dorsal serrated ; distance of anal from snout 

 2i in body ; pectoral nearly half head ; ventral 8 in total length. Head, 4|. Depth, 7. 

 D. II, 11, III +. A. 94 + ; 7 rows of scales between lateral line and front of dorsal. 

 L. 2i feet. Straits of Juan de Fuca. A specimen obtained from the stomach of a. 

 seal by Mr. J. G. Swan. (Bean.) 



(Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 362.) 



^Macrurus asper Goode & Bean. 



Dark reddish brown, the spinules with a metallic luster ; stouter than in M. bairdii; 

 jcales small, strong, their free portions covered with vitreous spines in about 7 rows^ 

 ihe middle row not forming a keel, though projecting backward most strongly; in- 

 terorbital with a little more than length of eye, 4| in head ; snout triangular, de- 

 pressed ; upper ridge prominent anteriorly, ending in advance of concavity of inter- 

 orbital space ; lateral ridges prominent, continued behind the eye ; barbel shorter 

 than eye; cleft of mouth reaching to below posterior margin of orbit; second spine 

 of dorsal nearly two-thirds head, not reaching front of soft dorsal when depressed j 

 anal three times as high as second dorsal ; vent at a distance from ventral muck 

 greater than length of ventral. D. II, H-IO.S. A. 110. P. 20. V. 10. Scales 7-150-18. 

 Gulf Stre;im, south of New England. 



(Goode «fe Bean, Bull. Mus. Coinp. Zoiil., Vol. X, No. 5, 1883, 196.) 



*Coriiph(xnoides carapinus Goode &, Beau. 



Scales oval, membranous, without armature, rather large, 22 to 24 in a transverse 

 series. Second ray of dorsal couipressed and serrate, as long as head ; soft dorsal 

 inserted on a lump-like elevation of the back. Vent nearly below end of first dorsal. 

 Snout acute, projecting beyond the mouth a distance equal to diameter of eye, which 

 is about 4 in head. Bones of head very soft and flexible ; surface of head very irreg- 



