126 CLASS XIV. 



dried or salted an important article of commerce. The capture of 

 these fishes is for the people of some countries, as of Iceland, what 

 the harvest is for the inhabitants of more temperate regions ; their 

 favourite food is the cod. 



A. Head broader than 'body, depressed. 



Raniceps Cuv. Dorsal fins two, first scarcely to be distinguished, 

 second long; anal fin long. Ventral fins distant, with first and 

 second rays elongate. Single cirrus of throat. 



Sp. Raniceps /wscwsKROEYER, Blenniusfuscus STROEM., 

 NICH, MUELLER Zool. Danica, Tab. 45, Skandinaviens Fiskar, Tab. 21. 

 This fish has only two rudimentary pyloric appendages, and differs more 

 from the ordinary Gadi than the rest of the sub-genera. It lives in the 

 North Sea, and also comes sometimes into the Baltic. Gadus trifurcatus 

 PENNANT (Raniceps trifurcatus, YARRELL Brit. Fishes u. p. -204), does not 

 differ from this species, according to FRIES and KROEYER. 



B. Head not broader than body, compressed. 

 t Ventral fins uniradiate. 



Phycis AETEDI. Dorsal fins two. Single gular cirrus. Head 

 and body covered with thin scales (larger than in the other Ga- 

 doids). 



Sp. Phycis mediterraneus LAROCHE, Ann. du Mus. xm. pp. 332, 333, Blen- 

 nius phycis ~L., RONDELET p. 186, WILLUGHB. Tab. No. 12, fig. 3. 



Phycis furcatus, Gadus furcatus PENN., YARRELL Brit. Fishes, n. p. 201 ; 

 the ventral fins are not placed very close together. 



Brotula Cuv. Dorsal and anal fins united with caudal. Cirri 

 several, sometimes none. Ventral fins contiguous. 



Sp. Brotula barbata, Enchelyopus barbatus SCHN., Syst. IcJith. p. 52 ; a species 

 from the West Indian Sea, figured by PARRA, PI. 31, fig. 2 (whose work 

 (Description de diferentes piesas de historia natural, Havana, 1787, 8vo,) is 

 known to me from citations alone. To this genus belong two species from 

 Japan, Brotula multibarbata SCHLEGEL, Faun. Japonica, Pisces, Tab. in. 

 fig. 2, and Brotula imberbis SCHLEGEL, ibid. fig. 3. 



In Brotula multibarbata there are only two small pyloric appendages, as 

 in Raniceps. Faun. Japonica, Pise. p. 253. 



Gadopsis nov. gen. VERANY, FILIPPI. 



Sp. Oligopus ater Risso. Compare Ueber die Schwimmblase des Oligopus 

 ater Risso, Aus einem Schreiben der Prof. FILIPPI in Turin an A. KOEL- 

 LIKER, Zeitschr. f. ivissensch. Zool. vn. 1855, s. 170, 171. 



