300 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
The type is a specimen four hundred and sixty millimeters in total length, from 
Noto, in Hondo, Japan, No. 6004 Carnegie Museum Catalog of Fishes. 
Head 4.4 in length; depth 8.75 (2 in head); maxillary 2.6 in head; eye 8; snout 
5; pectoral 1.6; ventral 1.33 in eye; D. 97; A. 76; P. 20; V. 3. 
Lower jaw included, teeth of upper exposed; maxillary ending under center of 
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eye; snout vertical at tip; skin of maxillaries continued as a prominent flap forward 
half the length of mandible; free inner edge of mandibular rami produced as flaps 
of greatest height (1.66 in eye) anteriorly, forming there a right-angled projection 
immediately below symphysis of lower jaw; teeth in upper jaw extending but half 
distance from snout to end of maxillary, in a single row, coarse and large, slightly 
hooked; teeth in lower jaw closing between those of upper jaw and palatines; a 
single series posteriorly, large and strong, most so at middle of lower jaw, where it 
is replaced by two well-separated rows of much smaller teeth; palatine teeth similar 
to those in upper jaw; in a single row on each side; vomer with two larger and 
stronger canine teeth pointing backwards. Anus half diameter of eye further from 
flap of opercle than is tip of snout. 
Dorsal inserted over middle of pectoral, nearly the length of the snout behind 
the upper angles of the gill-openings, its longest rays posteriorly, where they are 
half again as long as anteriorly; dorsal and anal united and continuous with caudal; 
anal similar to dorsal, its insertion under the twenty-fourth ray of dorsal; length of 
pectoral 1.5 in head; ventrals 1.33 in eye. 
Seales scattered sparsely over tail and sides of body as far forward as 
diameter of eye in front of dorsal insertion; none on head, belly, or pectorals; dorsal 
and anal scaled posteriorly nearly to margin, anteriorly more and more in base 
alone until the first rays are scaleless. 
Color in general formed by brown reticulations around vague white blotches, 
latter best developed near base of dorsal, on its lower half and on dorsal surface 
of head, brown, becoming nearly uniform on flanks; belly white, as is ventral surface 
of head; dorsal and anal margined with brownish black, narrowly anteriorly, but so 
broad posteriorly and on caudal as to color half of fins; frequently a white oblique 
streak interrupting the marginal color; twelve or thirteen of these on dorsal, ar- 
ranged in pairs; one or two on anal; pectorals margined with dusky, with a colorless 
edge. 
This species is very near Lycodes palearis and L. brevipes. In color it resembles 
to some degree L. reticulatus of the Atlantic. 
