222 Stover's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



Enchelyopus Americ.inus (Schneider), Griffith's Ov., x. p 489 



Gadus longipes, Codling, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., I. p. 372, pi. 1, fig. 4. 



Phycis furcalus. Stoker, Cost. Journ. Nat. Hist., i. p. 418. 



Phycis Americanus, American Hake. Storer's Report, p. 138. 



" American Codling. Dekay's Report, p. 291, pi. 46, fig. 15U. 



2. Phycis punctatus, Mitchill. 



Body cylindrical, subfusiform. Back and sides brown, or whitish with lines between the 

 scales. Lateral line alternately black and white. A black spot on the first dorsal ; caudai 

 emarginate. 



D. 9 or 10, 47. P. 13. V. 1. A. 47. C. 23. Length, 10 inches. 



Nova Scotia, Hamilton Smith. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Gadus punctatus, Spotted Cod, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 372, pi. 1, fig. 5. 

 Gadus (Phycis) punctatus, Spoiled Phycis, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, III. p. 253, and fig. 

 Phycis punctatus, Spotted Codling, Dekay's Report, p. 292, pi. 46, fig. 119. 



3. Phycis tenuis, Mitchill. 



Back and sides brown, lighter above. Fins dark brown, excepting ventrals, which are 



whitish. Throat internally streaked with red and purple. Convex tail. 



D. 11,54. P. 16. V.2. A. 44. C. 25. Length, 15 inches. 



New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Gadus tenuis, Slender Cod, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 371. 

 Phycis tenuis, Slender Cod, Dekay's Report, p. 293. 



GENUS VII. MACROURUS, Bloch. 

 The entire head and whole body furnished with hard scales, bristling with 

 small spines. Their suborbital's unite together in front, and with the nasal 

 bones, to form a depressed muzzle, which advances beyond the mouth, and 

 under which the latter preserves its mobility. Ventrals small and a little ju- 

 gular ; pectorals moderate. The first dorsal short and elevated ; the second 

 dorsal and the anal are both very long, and unite in a point at the caudal ; the 

 jaws have only very fine and very short teeth. 



1. Macrourus rupestris, Bloch. 



Body oblong, thick anteriorly, slender posteriorly. Head large. Eyes large and promi- 

 nent. Scales silvery, hard, and armed on the head and forepart of the body with several 

 longitudinal serrated ridges, on the posterior parts with only one ridge. Lateral line near 

 the back. 



D. 11,112. P. 18. V. 8. A. 112. C. (?). Fabricius. 



D. 1-11, 124. P. 19. V. 7. A. 148. C. 272. Schneider. 



