1. LYCOUKS. 321 



half of the length of the head, which is one-fourth of the total. Head 

 twice as long as high ; snout long. The distance of the vent from 

 the ventrak is more than the length of the head. Vertical fins 

 enveloped in lax skin. Dark-brownish-black, with irregular white 

 markings in the form of five narrow bars across the back ; lower 

 parts of the head and trunk whitish. 

 Northumberland Sound. 



a. Fine specimen. From the Haslar Collection. — Type of the species. 



6. Ly codes polaris. 



Blennius polaris, Sabine in Parry's Journ. Vay. 1819-20, Suppl. p. 212 ; 

 Ross, App. to Parry's Voy. p. 200, and App. to the Narrat. of a Se- 

 cond Voy. p. 52. no. 8. 



Zoarces polaris, Rieharch. Faun. Bor.-Amer. Fish. p. 94. 



Lycodes polaris, Richards. Last Arct. Voy. p. 362. 



" Without any scales. Length of the pectoral exceeding twice its 

 breadth, having fifteen rays. Yellomsh, lighter on the belly, with 

 eleven large saddle-shaped markings across the back, the middle of 

 these markings being much lighter than their edges ; the whole back 

 and the sides marbled." 



Coast of North Georgia, near 75° lat. 



b. Ventral fins longer than one-fourth of the pectorals ; pyloric appendages 



none : Ihiocoetes et Phucoca-tc^, Jenyus, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, pp. 165 k. 

 168.— Falkland Islands; Chiloe. 



7. Lycodes latitans. 



Phucocoetes latitans, Jenyns, I. c. p. 168. pi. 29. fig. 3. 



D. 103. A. 72. V. 3. 



Brownish ; head with some lighter spots. 

 Falkland Islands. 



a, hf-c. Adult and half-grown. Falkland Islands. Presented by 

 W. Wright, Esq. 



Description. — Head, body and fins enveloped in a tough and lax 

 skin ; head depressed, broader than high, its greatest width being 

 contained once and three-fourths in its length, which is one- 

 sixth of the total. Snout obtusely rounded, with the upper jaw 

 overlapping the lowtr, twice as long as the small eye, the diameter 

 of which is one-eighth of the length of the head. Cleft of the mouth 

 horizontal, of moderate width, the maxillary not extending to below 

 the posterior margin of the eye. The teeth in the jaws, on the vomer 

 and the palatine bones are rather small, conical, in a single series ; 

 two, in front of the upper and lower jaws, are a Little larger than the 

 rest, and there are some other small teeth behind them. The single 

 nostril is situated anteriorly on the end of the snout, at the extremity 

 of a short cutaneous tube: a row of pores along the upper jaw Inter- 

 orbital space flat, and much Avider than the eye. Gill-openine very 



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