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across the nape and from 9 to 11 across the back extending downward 

 about to median line and becoming obscure in adults; dorsal and anal 

 each with a narrow dark margin. (Bean.) Aleutian Islands to Kadiak; 

 abundant; taken by us in large numbers off Karluk in 1897. (brevis, 

 short; pe*, foot.) 



Lycodes brevipes, BEAN, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mns. 1890, 38, between Unga and Nagai islands, 

 at Albatross Station 2848, in no fathoms. (Type, No. 45362. Coll. Albatrost.) 



Subgenus LYCIAS, Jordan & Evermann. 

 2828. LTCODES NEBULOSUS, Kroyer. 



D. 87; A. 68; P. 19; V. 3. Body naked anteriorly, the posterior part of 

 dorsal fin scaly ; the anal naked or nearly so. Brown, with small, faint, 

 yellow, transverse bands across the back. Greenland. (Kroyer.) An 

 imperfectly described species, not recognized by any recent writer. 

 This species and the next should perhaps be placed in Lycodalepis. (nebu- 

 losus, clouded.) 



Lycodes nebulosus, KROYER, Kong. Dan. Yidensk. Sel. 1844, 140, Greenland; GILL, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 261 ; JORDAN & GILBERT. Synopsis, 787, 1883. 



2829. LTCODES SEMINUDUS, Reinhardt. 



Head 3|; depth 7. D. 91; A. 74; P. 21. Body naked in front of vent, 

 scaly behind; fins naked. Head large. Distance of veutrals from vent 

 somewhat more than length of head ; caeca 2. Color uniform pale grayish 

 brown, without spots or bauds. North Atlantic, from Greenland to Spitz- 

 bergen; rare. (Collett.) (semi-, half; nudus, naked.) 



Lycodes seminudus, REINHAKDT, Kong. Dansk. Selsk., etc., 1838, 221, Omenak, Greenland ; 

 GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 320, 1862; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 787, 1883; GOODE & BKAN, 

 Oceanic Ichthyology, 307, 1896. 



936. LYCODALEPIS, Bleeker. 



Lycodalepis, BLEEKER, Verl. Akad. Amst., Ed. 2, vm, 1874, 369 (mucosus). 



This genus differs from Lycodes in the absence of scales on trunk and 

 fins; scattered scales sometimes present on the tail only. (XvKGddijs, 

 Lycodes; dAETtis, without scales.) 



a. Color brownish, with many cross bands and streaks of cream color ; head 4J in length ; 

 depth 8; lateral line obsolete; tail sometimes with a few scales. POLARIS, 2830. 



aa. Color blackish, with about 5 narrow pale cross bars on back; head 3f in length; 

 depth 8; lateral line double, a median and a ventral series of pores being faintly 

 developed. MUCOSUS, 2831. 



2830. LYCODALEPIS POLARIS (Sabine). 



Head 44-; depth 8. D. 85; A. 67; P. 18; V. 3; Br. 6. Head depressed, 

 its greatest width f of its length ; distance from tip of snout to nape nearly 

 equaling greatest width of head, 6 in length; upper jaw If to 2 in head, 

 extending to vertical of hind margin of orbit, larger in male than in the 

 female ; a full series of teeth on premaxilliaries, and in front of these a few 

 smaller teeth form an outer imperfect series ; a toothless space at ay mphysis, 



