238 THE FAMILY RANICIPITID.E GILL. 



the family, and that geuiis lias ouly a single species, coufined to the 

 seas of northern Europe. 



Raniceps Ciivier Eigne Auiuial, t. 2, p. 217, 1817— Batrachocephalus HolboU Gotb. 

 Vet. Selsk N. Handlingar, v. 3, p. 39. 



The proper name of the species appears to be Raniceps raninus 

 { = Bleiinius ranimis Linn, Syst. Nat., e<l. x, p. 258, 1758). Dr. Giiiither, 

 however, has called it Raniceps trifurcus { = Gadus trifurciis Walbaum). 



I am indebted to my friend. Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, for the original draw- 

 ings of the skull of Raniceps, and the copy of the suspensorium and its 

 appendages of the haddock {Mehmogrammus oigUfiyius) derived from 

 the Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society for 1884 (The Osteology 

 and Arthrology of the Haddock, by H. St. John Brooks) 



