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first tootli on each side of this larger than any of the rest ; 1 complete series 

 of teeth on mandible, and in front of it, about the symphysis, 2 irregu- 

 lar short series; a few teeth in a cluster on head of vomer; palatines with 

 a short single series; teeth all slender and slightly recurved; long diame- 

 ter of eye 9 in head. Pectoral If in head; ventral about as long as eye; 

 longest dorsal ray 3f in head; vent in middle of total length, immediately 

 behind third cross band; longest anal ray 4 in head; scattered scales 

 present on posterior two-thirds of tail in 1 specimen (type of L. coccineus), 

 wholly wanting in the others, typical of L. turneri; no scales on the fins ; no 

 trace of lateral line. Color light brown; abdomen grayish brown; lower 

 parts of head cream ; a band of cream on the anal from origin of rays to 

 about their middle; a crescentic V-shaped band of same color, mottled 

 with umber, crossing nape and continuing behind pectorals, extending 

 backward to the first cross bar; a streak of cream, more or less interrupted 

 by umber, extending backward from eye across cheek almost to end of 

 operculum; 10 bands of cream color, bordered with dark umber, from 

 tips of dorsal rays extending on lower half of body, becoming wider and 

 somewhat broken below middle of body; a very indistinct caudal tip of 

 cream color. In young examples these markings are very distinct; in 

 older ones they grow progressively more obscure, the oldest having scat- 

 tering blotches of cream color instead of bands, the V-shaped nuchal band 

 persisting longest. The type of Lycodes coccineus is described as brown, 

 red below ; pectorals reddish brown above, carmine below ; 9 bluish-white 

 bands on the dorsal; a few whitish blotches on sides and on head; anal 

 brownish red ; head white below ; a whitish blotch as large as eye at 

 upper angle of gill opening. Length 18 to 20 inches. Arctic Ocean, Bering 

 Straits, and adjacent waters south to St. Michaels. Here described from 

 the type of Lycodes coccineus and from a number of specimens from Point 

 Barrow referred to Lycodes turneri. Evidently all belong to the same 

 species, but 1 has a scaly tail while the others are wholly naked. In 2 

 large examples, supposed to be males, the head is very much depressed, 

 broad and flat, and the maxillary is more than head. In the others the 

 head is smaller, less flattened, with smaller mouth, the maxillary 2 in head. 

 These are doubtless females and young. The species should probably 

 stand as Lycodalepis polaris. (polaris, polar.) 

 IBlennius oolaris* SABINE, Parry's Journal, Voyage 1819-20, Supplement, 212, North 



Georgia. 

 Lycodes turneri, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 464, St. Michaels, Alaska (Type, So- 



21529. Coll. Dr. Lucien M. Turner) ; TURNER, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 93, pi. 4, 1880. 

 Lycodes coccineus, BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 144, Big Diomede Island, Bering 



Strait (Coll. Dr. Bean. Type, No. 27748, 20 inches long, with scales on the tail); 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 787, 1883. 



Blennius (Zoarches?) polaris, RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Amer., in, 94, 1836. 

 Lycodes polaris, GUNTHER, Cat., iv,321, 1862. 

 Lycodalepis turneri, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 788, 1883; ScoFiELD.in JORDAN & GIL- 



BERT, Fur Seal Invest., 1898_ 

 Lycodalepis polaris, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 788, 1883. 



* Blennius polaris is thus described : Without any scales ; length of the pectoral 

 exceeding twice its breadth, having 15 rays. Yellowish, lighter on the belly, with 11 

 large saddle-like markings across the back, the middle of these markings being much 

 lighter than their edges ; the whole back and the sides marbled. (Sabme.) Coast of 

 North Georgia. 



