126 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
genus Lycodes has been considerably extended by Collett and Liitken; and 
Giinther has brought together in the “ Challenger” report about all that was 
known concerning the deep sea members of the group. Since their publica- 
tions, by means of the different expeditions of the “ Albatross,” of the 
United States Fishery Commission, the number of species has been nearly 
doubled. The genus Maynea was known by a species taken at the Straits of 
Magellan, the “ Albatross” has added a species from the eastern tropical 
Pacific. 
From near the Galapagos it has added one species to Gymnelis, hitherto 
known from the Arctic extensions of Atlantic and Pacific; four species to 
Lycodes, one to Lycodopsis, heretofore known only from the northeastern 
Pacific and from Japan, and one to Phucoccetes, a genus supposed to be con- 
fined to the waters around the southern extremity of South America. It has 
also extended the horizontal range of Lycodapus more toward the equator, 
by means of specimens of a previously described species, and has brought to 
light from the section about the Galapagos three new species that find their 
nearest allies in the genus Bothrocara. The greatest depth yet noted for 
the Zoarcide is that of Lycodes albus Vaill., taken by the “Talisman” in the 
eastern middle Atlantic at 2173 fathoms. The present collections carry the 
vertical distribution of Maynea downward to a depth of 1471 fathoms, 
and that of Gymnelis is extended 1530 fathoms, to a depth of 1793 
fathoms. None of the Atlantic species have yet been proved to occur in 
the Pacific. It is true Goode and Bean assert, 1896, Oc. Ich., p. 527, that 
Lycodes paxillus G. B. has been taken “ off the coast of southern California, 
in 603 fathoms,” but the reference they give contains nothing whatever in 
support of the statement. 
In regard to the affinities of the specimens from the equatorial Pacific it 
may be said that the species of Lycodes are rather more close to those of the 
northeastern Pacific than to those of the northern Atlantic or to those of the 
far south. Nothing can be said of the affinities of the species of Maynea 
from Magellan’s straits because of the dearth of particulars in its description. 
Lycodopsis scaurus is closely allied to species from the northward in the Pa- 
cific, while Phucoccetes finds its ally at the southern extremity of South 
America. Gymnelis has a not particularly close ally in the northern Atlan- 
tic and another of which few particulars are known in the northern Pacific. 
Taken altogether the closest affinities of the species under study appear to 
be with those toward the north along the western coasts of North America 
