LYCODES ANGUIS. ile 
Oo 
(Ss) 
Lycodes anguis sp. n. 
Plate XXX. fig. 1. 
Bro ros Ds 103-1095 A. 92-97 5 V. 2: (3) Be 13 €. 10: 
When compared with others of its kindred this form presents no very 
great differences in shape. The body is slender and compressed, and the 
depth is about one sixteenth of the total length. Head narrow, with sides 
nearly parallel, as wide as deep, in length less than one sixth of the total, 
slightly convex on the occipital region, which is longer than wide. Inter- 
orbital space narrow, hardly convex, in width about one third of the length of 
the orbit. Snout long, one and one half times the eye, broad, subacuminate 
or rounded and blunt at the end. Labial region, between eye and nostrils, 
swollen. Nostrils with a short tube, situated near the lip and the end of 
the snout. Eye large, two thirds of the snout, close upon one fifth of the 
head. Mouth medium, cleft extending to a vertical from the front edge of 
the eye; maxillary not subtending half of the orbit, lower jaw nearly as 
long as upper; lips medium. ‘Teeth on the jaws in four or five series near 
the symphysis, on the vomer in a curved series in front of the middle of 
which there is a short triangular group with its apex forward. A single 
short palatine series on each side. Branchial apertures moderately wide, ex- 
tending forward from the pectoral bases almost to the ventrals. The dorsal 
fin and the anal widen backward so that the fins and the muscular portion 
together retain the depth of the anterior half as they approach the caudal. 
Dorsal origin above the middle of the pectoral. Anal origin distant from 
the snout about twice the length of the head. Depth of base of pec- 
torals about two fifths of the length of the fin, which latter is contained one 
and two thirds times in the head; below and posteriorly the pectoral rays 
are prolonged in a fringe. Ventrals as long as the eye, ending in a flexible 
point; anterior ray short. Caudal continuous with dorsal and anal, short, 
pointed or somewhat rounded. Scales small, close together or in contact 
covering the body and the basal portions of the fins; absent from the head 
and the pectoral fins. Mucous pores around the mouth conspicuous, as also 
the chambers in the bones. Lateral line rudimentary, to be traced but for 
a very short distance from the operculum. 
Brownish; darker on the head and over the cavity of the body; lighter 
backward on the muscular portions. Length nine inches. 
