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243. Lycodes jordani Evormann & Goklsborough, new species. 



Head 7 in total length; depth 14: eye 4.5 in head; snout 3.5; maxillary 2.9; interorbital o in 

 length of eye; length of pectoral 2.1 in head; ventral 1.5 in eye; dorsal 110; anal 93 (dorsal and anal 

 counts taken from cotype). 



Head and nape naked, rest of body fully scaled, except the axil of pectoral, \vhic4i is naked; dorsal 

 origin over anterior part of pectoral; anal origin under about tlie eighteenth dorsal ray; pectorals nearly 

 rounded in outline, the fourth to seventh rays from the upper part being the longest, all the rays except a 

 few upper free at their tips, the free margin about equal in length to pupil. 



Top of head flat, the interorl^ital space about equal to pupil, the bone being much narrower, alxnit 

 one-fourth the space; maxillary reaching anterior edge of pupil; small villiform teeth on vomer, pala- 

 tines, and jaws, those on jaws in a single row laterally, broadening into a patch anteriorly; a row of 4 

 arge pores on mandible, the row contiilued in 3 similar pores on preopercle; 6 similar but smaller 



Fig. 120. — I.ycodcs jordani Evt^rinann & Goldsborough, now species. Type. 



pores extending from anterior nasal opening just above maxillary and posteriorly under eye, the last 

 pore above the next to last in lower row; anterior nasal opening with short tube; lower jaw included; 

 upper jaw reaching very slightly beyond lower, for a distance less than half width of pupil; lateral line 

 not evident. 



General color: Brownish olivaceous, the scales on body and fins white, giving the body the appear- 

 ance of lieing white spotted, the pectoral, head, and edges of dorsal and anal a darker olive than that of 

 body. 



Another specimen from station 42(i7, and which we take as a cotype, gives the following measure- 

 ments: Head 6.8 in total length; depth 16.5; eye 4.(36 in head; snout 3.9; interorbital 1.3 in eye. the 

 bone about 4 in eye; maxillary 3 in head; mandible 3.4; ventral equaling eye; pectoral 2 in head; 

 dorsal 116; anal 93. 



This species is near Lycodes palearis, differing in depth, in color, in the shorter upper jaw, and in 

 other characters. 



Tyjje, no. 57828, U. S. National Museum (field no. 2439), a specimen 13.25 inches long from Albatross 

 station 3788, and cotype, no. 20014, Stanford University Museum, a specimen 8.4 inches long from 

 station 4267. 



244. Lycodes brevipes Bean. 



This species was found to be very common in the deep waters from Puget Sound to Shelikof Strait. 

 Sixty-three specimens, 2.5 to 10.75 inches long, are in the collection. These were taken at stations 2848, 

 4201, 4218, 4246, 4248, 4250, 4252, 4254 to 42.56, 42.58, 4275, 4280, 4283, 4285, 4291 to 4293, 4295, and 4296. 



Originally described by Bean ( 1891 ) from Unga and Nagai islands, at Albatross station 2848; recorded 

 also from stations 3216, 3225 to 3227, 3263, 3309 to 3311, 3313, and 3330, located north and south of the 

 Aleutian Islands and in Bristol Bay (Gilbert 1895), and from off Karluk (.Jordan & Gilbert 1896). 



