Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2467 



as in L. brevipes] pectorals 1 in head. Head naked; nape more or less 

 naked, the scaleless area variable in extent, sometimes confined to its ante- 

 rior third, sometimes reaching nearly to front of dorsal; body sparsely 

 covered with embedded scales; axil naked; lateral line short, decurved, 

 extending scarcely beyond middle of pectorals. Anal origin under eight- 

 eenth dorsal ray. Teeth present in jaws, vomer and palatines, those in 

 premaxillaries laterally -in a single series which widens anteriorly into a 

 rather broad patch, the outer teeth somewhat enlarged, especially in front; 

 all the premaxillary teeth shut outside on the mandibular series which are 

 opposed to those on vomer and palatines; mandibular teeth arranged 

 similarly to those in upper jaw, the lateral series somewhat enlarged, 

 continuous with the inner edge of the symphyseal patch; vomerine teeth 

 bluntly conic, 3 or 4 in number; palatines in a single series. Snout long, 

 prominent, the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower for a distance 

 equaling $- of orbit; upper lip thin, much expanded laterally, continuous 

 posteriorly with the lower lip which forms a wide free menibranaceous lobe 

 opposite middle of each mandible; anteriorly the lower lip becomes 

 abruptly contracted and adnate to the jaw, leaving the symphyseal por- 

 tion without free margin; inner edge of mandible with wide membra- 

 naceous borders, which increase in width anteriorly where they terminate 

 in a pair of acutely pointed free flaps ; these and the menibranaceous mar- 

 gins very conspicuous in both young and old individuals. In L. brevipesihey 

 are very inconspicuous, becoming evident in adults only. General color 

 brownish olive, growing lighter on the lower parts; dorsal with 14 to 16 

 white vertical bars, extending in young examples across back and sides 

 and onto anal fin, in adults confined to the fins, and frequently indistinct 

 or wanting; anterior dorsal angle frequently black, separated from 

 remainder of fin by a curved white bar; dorsal and anal not black mar- 

 gined as in L. brevipes; in the latter, the white lateral bars are 9 to 12 in 

 number, and are usually confined to upper half of body; there is also no 

 black spot on anterior dorsal rays. This species is very close to L. 

 brevipes Bean, differing constantly in the longer ventrals, the greater 

 development of mandibular and labial folds, the more numerous white 

 bars, and the smaller eye. Bering Sea. Three specimens, 113 to 166 mm. 

 long, from Albatross Stations 3253 and 3254, in Bristol Bay, in 36 and 46 

 fathoms. (Gilbert.) (palece, the wattles of a cock.) 



Lycodes palearis, GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 454, Bristol Bay, Alaska. 

 (Coll. Albatross.) 



2827. LYCODES BREVIPES, Bean. 



Head 5 in total length; depth 10. D. 85 to middle of caudal; A. 74; P. 

 21. Body covered with scales except immediately behind pectoral tins; 

 head naked; dorsal and anal fins minutely scaled; diameter of eye equals 

 the length of the snout, 4 in head ; dorsal origin nearly over middle of 

 pectoral; anal origin under eighteenth ray of dorsal; ventrals minute, 

 scarcely more than i diameter of eye; pectorals 9 in length of the body; 

 lateral line single, very faint, ventral in position, abruptly decurved and 

 becoming obsolete over about the tenth anal ray. A narrow light band 



