Le, 
Fam. GADIDAE. 
Lemonema globiceps, n.sp. 
(Plate XLIIT.) 
Body compressed, tapering from head region with a straight 
dorsal and ventral edge to the somewhat slender tail. Its 
height is contained five times in its length. The head is 
globular, slightly broader than deep, and is contained a little 
over 42 times in the length of body; the mucous cavities of 
the head and thin transparent skin give it a swollen appear- 
ance. The eye is about 34 times in the head and 14 times 
in the interorbital space, which is flat and wider than in any 
other species. The maxillary reaches to the posterior third 
of the eye. There is no barbel. Teeth villiform, in a narrow 
band (1 row in lower, 2 to 3 in upper) in both jaws ; none on 
vomer or palatines. 
The first dorsal commences over the base of the pectoral, 
and consists of five rays, the first of which is very long (32 in 
length of body). The second dorsal, of about 70 rays, com- 
mences at a distance behind the first about equal to the 
length of the base of the latter. The anal of 66 rays com- 
mences under the 6th ray of the 2nd dorsal. Anal and dorsal 
end near the caudal, the free part of which is about double its 
depth. 
Ventrals apparently consist of “a single long ray bifid at 
its end ”’ (vide generic definition), the inner and longer branch 
reaching to the 3rd or 4th ray of the anal, the shorter to the 
anus. If dissected out, however, and examined more minutely, 
it is found that there are three rays, one very short on the 
inner side, the second long, and the third about half its length. 
The scales are moderately small, feeble and deciduous. 
There are five between the first dorsal and the lateral line and 
16 (?) between this and the ventral aspect. The lateral line 
consists of about 20 pierced scales separated from each other 
by a distance about equal to half the diameter of the eye. 
The lateral line has a marked curve till it reaches the middle 
of the body from whence it continues backwards in a straight 
line. The number of rows of scales between the head and base 
of the caudal is about go. 
I have placed this fish under the genus Lemonema pro- 
visionally. It differs from the description of the type of 
that genus in the ventrals which, though apparently ‘“ reduced 
toa single long ray, bifid at its end,” really consists of three 
rays. 
