Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2403 



LYCIAS (Av'/co?, wolf) .- 

 II. Trunk naked anteriorly, scaled only on the tail or posterior half. 



*. Dorsal fin scaled posteriorly; color brown, with faint yellow transverse bands 



Onba k - NEBULOSUS, 2828. 



kk. Dorsal fin naked; color uniform pale grayish brown without spots or bands; 

 pectoral rays 21 ; lateral line single, median. SKMINUDUS, 2829.' 



Subgenus LYCODES. 



2817. LYCODES ESMARKII, Collett. 



Head 4| ; depth 8. D. 110 to 116 j P. 22 ; A. 95 ; V. 4. Body behind front 

 of dorsal scaled; vertical fins scaly; nape scaly; snout obtuse; maxillary 

 not more than | head ; lateral line indistinct, divided, having a median 

 branch besides the ventral series of pores, the median series faint, soon 

 obsolete ; pectorals 8 in length ; vertebras 25 + 87. Brownish black, with 

 a whitish-yellow patch on the nape, and 5 to 8 transverse bands of the same 

 color across the dorsal and posteriorly across the anal, these bands becom- 

 ing broken into annular spots with age. North Atlantic; recorded from 

 Finmark and Spitzbergen. American specimens from the Gulf Stream 

 in about lat. 40. (Collett.) (Named for Professor Lauritz Esmark, of 

 Copenhagen.) 



Lycodes esmarkii, COLLETT, Gorges Fiske, 95,1874, Varanger Fjord, Finmark (Coll. Lens- 

 mand Klerk and Prof. Esmark) ; COLLETT, Norske Nord-Havs Exp., Fiske, 84, pi. 3, 

 fig. 22, 1880. 



Lycodes vahli, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 209, not of KEINHARDT; JORDAN 

 & GILBERT, Synopsis, 786, 1883; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 303, 1896. 



2818. LYCODES VAHLII, Eeinhardt. 



Head 4J; depth 8. D. 116; A. 93; V. 4. Head nearly twice as long as 

 high; snout long, maxillary reaching to opposite middle of eye; dis- 

 tance of vent from ventrals nearly equal to length of head ; ventral fins 

 less than |- as long as pectorals ; vertical fins scaly ; body wholly scaly ; 

 lateral line distinct, ventral in position ; vertebrje 25 + 87. Brownish yel- 

 low, with 6 blackish cross bands extending on the dorsal fin and confluent 

 on the belly, the first cross band on and below the anterior dorsal rays, the 

 second above the vent; adults nearly uniform blackish. Coast of Green- 

 land. (Giinther.) (Named for Martin Vahl, an early Danish naturalist.) 



Lycodes vahlii, REINHARDT, Kon. Dan. Vidensk. Selsk. Nat. Math. Afh., vn, 1838, 153, 

 tab. v, Greenland ; GILL, Cat. Fishes East Coast N. A., 46, 1861 ; GUNTHER, Cat., IV, 

 319, 1862 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 786, 1883 ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 

 303, 1896. 



2819. LI CODES CONCOLOB, Gill & Townsend. 



Head 5 in total; depth about 7; eye 7f in head: snout 3; ventral fin 

 2 in eye; pectoral 2 in head. D. 118; A. 98; P. 21. Body rather elongate, 

 covered with very small, entirely separated embedded scales which become 

 more distinct anteriorly and extend in advance of the dorsal fin and scap- 

 ular region, as well as on the vertical fins; lateral line obsolete; pectorals 

 with scattered scales on external and internal surfaces near base ; a special- 

 ized area of smaller scales behind base of pectoral and a naked area around 



