134 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
This species differs from Lycodes serpens in that it tapers less from the 
back of the head forward, that the mouth is shorter, and that the teeth are 
finer and placed closer together. It is closely allied to L. cicatrifer, but 
tapers more from nape to snout, is less completely covered by scales, and 
has a more rudimentary lateral line. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3435 26° 48’ N. W102 457 20/0 Wie 859 fathoms SAB Le Br. m. bk. sp. 
3436 27° 34! N. 110° 53’ 40” W. 905s Slo 13 Br. mn. bk. sp. 
Lycodes serpens psp. n. 
Br, r. 6; D. 103-105; A. 97; V. 3 (3-4); P. 16-17. 
The types of this species were taken with specimens of ZL. anguis, from 
which they differ in having a longer snout, a larger mouth, deeper and 
shorter pectorals, and in being of a stouter build in general. The formula 
is nearly the same in both. The head is one fifth of the total length, or a 
little more, and the depth is not far from one fourteenth of the same ; it 
widens toward the parietals and is somewhat widened from the nares 
forward, and on the crown forms a very low arch, with a weak median 
longitudinal crest behind the interorbital region. Eye medium, two thirds 
of the snout, one fifth of the head; length of orbit three times the inter- 
orbital distance. Snout large, one and one half times the eye, wider than 
deep, angled in front, with rounded or blunted apex when viewed from 
above. Mouth wide, cleft subtending two fifths of the eye; maxillary 
extending below almost the entire orbit. Nostrils small, anterior, with a 
short tube. Teeth small, in short bands on the jaws, in a series of six or 
-eight on the vomer, and in a short row of four or five on the anterior ends of 
the palatines ; outer row on the jaws of larger teeth not close together. Lips 
well developed. Mucous cavities in the bones large; pores large. Ventrals 
slender, hardly as long as the orbit. Pectorals broad, half as wide as long, 
rounded and fringed posteriorly. Dorsal origin little forward of the middle 
of the pectoral. Anal origin from the snout twice the distance to the bases 
of the pectorals, below the eighteenth ray of the dorsal. Scales very small, 
not in contact, encroaching on the bases of the fins, absent from the head. 
Blackish on head and fins; brown tinged with red on the muscular 
portions of the body. 
Length, ten and one fourth inches. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 
3436 27° 34 N. 110° 53’ 40” W. 905 fathoms Sted Es Br. m. bk. sp. 
