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covered with small scales, except on the lips. The operculum 

 terminates in a stiff, longish point. Scales soft and very de- 

 ciduous. Lateral line alternately black and white. The 

 anterior dorsal fin is higher than long, and commences imme- 

 diately behind the vertical from the roots of the pectorals. 

 The margins of the second dorsal and of the anal fin are even, 

 slightly rounded behind, the latter fin being somewhat the 

 lower. Caudal subtruncated. Pectorals two-thirds as long 

 as the head. Yentrals reduced to a single long ray, bifid at 

 its end. Back and sides pale brown or whitish, with lines 

 between the scales ; neck and belly dull white, with suffusions 

 of cream color. The first dorsal marked above with a black 

 spot, surmounted by the wbite tips of the rays. Some indi- 

 viduals have an imperfect whitish straight fillet under the 

 lateral line. Anal fin brownish, edged with blackish. Length, 

 10 inches. 



Fin-rays :— D. 9, 48 ; P. 13 ; V. 1 ; A. 56 ; C. 23. 



Enchelyopus regalis, Bl. Schn. p. 53. 



Oadus pundatus, Mitch. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. New York 

 I, p. 372, pi. 1, fig. 5: Kicbards. Faun. Bor. Amer. Fish. III^ 

 p. 253. 



— hlcnnoides, Mitch., 1. c. p. 370. 



Phycis punctatus, DeKay, N. Y. Faun. Fish. p. 292, pi. 46, 

 fig. 149. 



A single specimen of this fish was obtained in the southern 

 part of the Chesapeake Bay, (off Kent Island.) It is reported 

 to be not uncommon during some years, and chiefly after a 

 severe winter. 



AcA-D. Coll. 



Xlib-XIPHIDIONTIDi;. 



MURZENOIDES, Lac. 

 M. niiicronafuS' 



Common Butter Fish. 



Body elongate, linear, much compressed. The height of 

 the lo ly is contained nine times or nine times and a half in 



