136 DEEP SEA FISHES. 
Lycodes cicatrifer sp. n. 
Plate XXXT. fig. 1. 
Bret 6. Deal ON 0d Weer Bale Cyl 
Though this species is easily recognized its departures from the ordinary 
types of Lycodes are not very marked. The body is moderately elongate, 
slender and compressed; the tail maintains a considerable thickness and 
strength to the end. Depth about one eleventh of the total length, or 
one half of the length of the head. Head retaining its size forward on 
the snout, as deep as wide, flat on the parietal region; flat area longer 
than broad; interorbital space narrow, higher in the median line. Midway 
from eye to pectoral a transverse section of the head is subquadrate. From 
nape to internarial region the head is nearly straight. Snout broad, thick, 
deep, bluntly rounded at the end, approximately twice as long as the eye. 
Mouth large, the cleft subtending one third, and the maxillary little more 
than one half of the eye; lower jaw hardly any shorter than the upper. 
Teeth small, in bands on the jaws, in a bunch on the vomer, and in a short 
single series of a few teeth on the palatines. In the outer series on the 
jaws the teeth are separated and larger. Lips not greatly swollen. Eyes 
medium, nearly half as long as the snout. Length of orbit one and 
two fifths times the interorbital width. Along the face the pores form 
large whitish excavations resembling scars. The pores of the lateral line 
are small; the series descends rapidly on the side of the belly, and is not 
to be recognized backward of the origin of the anal fin. From the snout 
to the vent is twice the length of the head. Scales small, absent from the 
head and the pectoral fins. The other fins are enveloped for the most 
part in a thick skin and covered by smaller scales. Dorsal and anal long, 
low, continuous with caudal. Dorsal origin above the middle of the 
pectoral. Caudal short. Pectorals broad, inserted midway from snout to 
vent, fringed, ending in an angle. Ventrals small nearly as long as the 
orbit, tapering to a very slender filament, with three rays, of which the 
anterior one is quite short. Total length nine and one fourth inches. 
Head, pectorals, and belly black; muscular tracts brownish; dorsal 
and anal blackish. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth, Temperature. Bottom. 
3360 COMING 82° 5! Wi. 1672 fathoms 36.4° F. Fn. bk. dk. gn. 8. 
