2466 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



Teeth present on intermaxillary, mandible, palatines, and vomer ; lateral 

 Hue low, extending from upper end of gill opening in a curved direction 

 down toward vent from which it runs close along anal to end of tail. 

 (Goode & Bean.) Pectoral fin obliquely truncate at tip, appearing furcate 

 when not spread open. North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, from Spitzbergeii 

 south to the New England coast, where many specimens were taken in 516 

 to 1,423 fathoms. (En.) One of Collett's specimens from Hammerfest, 

 examined by us.) (frlyidus, frozen.) 



Lycodesfrigidus, COLLETT, Forh. Selsk. Christ. 1878, Nos. 14 and 15, Beeren Island and 

 Spitzbergen; COLLETT, Norske Nord-Havs Exp., 96, pi. 3, f. 23, ,24, 1880; GOODE & 

 BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 305, 1896. 



2824. LYCODES TERRJE-NOY*:, Collett. 



Head 5 to 5 ; depth 8 to 11. D. 106 to 108 ; A. 89 to 93 ; P. 23 or 24. Body 

 slender, head small; pectorals broad; maxillary reaching to middle of 

 eye; band of palatine teeth very short, scarcely 4- length of maxillary 

 band; body entirely scaly, head naked; lateral line ventral, extending 

 along edge of belly, the median branch wanting; vent before middle of 

 body. Color lost in type, the only specimen known. Banks of New- 

 foundland, in 155 fathoms. (Collett.) (terra, land; novns, new, from 

 Newfoundland. ) 



Lycodes terrce-novce, COLLETT, Campagnes Scientifiques, L'Hiroudelle, x, 1896, 54, Bank 

 of Newfoundland, Hirondelle Station 162, in 155 fathoms. (Coll. Albert, Prince of 

 Monaco.) 



2825. LYCODES DIGITATUS, Gill & Townsend. 



Head 5 in total ; depth about 8^ ; eye 6 in head; snout 3; ventral fin If 

 in eye ; pectoral l^o in head. D. 101 ; A. 81 ; P. 18. Body moderately elon- 

 gate; covered with small, entirely separated embedded scales, which 

 become nearer anteriorly and extend in advance of the dorsal fin as well 

 as on the vertical fins; no specialized area of smaller scales behind base of 

 pectorals; pectorals scaleless; head moderate, entirely naked; nape 

 naked ; upper jaw with outer row of close-set teeth, broader in front ; teeth 

 on vomer and palatines; lips rather thick. Color in alcohol, brownish 

 yellow, suffused with reddish in front, variegated, darker anteriorly, with 

 4 dark longitudinal stripes most distinct about middle of body, fading 

 out backward; fins light and without dark margins; head dark above 

 and laterally light below. Bering Sea. Only the type known, from which 

 we have taken this description, its length 18 inches; possibly the adult of 

 L. palearis, but the pectoral fins are shorter than in the latter, (digitatus, 

 fingered.) 



Lycodes digitatus, GILL & TOWNSEND, Proc. Biol. Soc. "Wash., xi, 1897 (Sept. 17, 1897), 232, 

 Bering Sea, lat. 56 14' N., long. 164 8' W., at Albatross Station 3541 i" 49 fathoms. 

 (Type, No. 48765, U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Albatross.) 



2826. LYCODES PALEARIS, Gilbert, 



Head 5 in length; depth 9 to 11 in length, 2 in head; eye 5 to 6 in 

 head, 1^ to 2 in snout. Dorsal with about 105 rays, counted to middle of 

 caudal ; anal about 90 ; pectoral 18 ; ventrals 1| to ! in eye, twice as long 



