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Subgenus UROPHYCIS. 

 2924. UROPHICIS REGICS (Walbaum). 



Head 4 in body; depth 5. D. 8-43; A. 40; scales about 90; eye 4 in 

 head; maxillary 2; pectoral If; caudal If. Body rather elongate, com- 

 pressed; mouth large, the maxillary reaching slightly past posterior 

 margin of eye; lower jaw included; cardiforni teeth on jaws and vomer; 

 interorbital flattish, about equal in width to the diameter of eye; gill 

 rakers short, 3 + 12 in number; origin of dorsal over base of pectorals; 

 pectorals slender, barely reaching to front of anal; ventrals filamentous, 

 composed of 2 rays each with the inner ray the larger, inserted in front of 

 base of pectoral in distance equal to 1| diameter of eye, their ends reach- 

 ing beyond front of anal; front of anal nearer snout than base of caudal, 

 by nearly a head's length ; caudal subtruncate. Pale brownish t inged with 

 yellowish, the lateral line dark brown, interrupted by white spots; inside 

 of mouth white ; first dorsal largely black, this color surrounded by white ; 

 second dorsal olivaceous, with irregular round dark spots; caudal, anal, 

 and pectorals dusky; ventrals and lower edge of pectorals white; 2 

 vertical series of round dark spots on the sides of the head. North 

 Atlantic, south to Cape Fear ; ranging from shallow water to a depth of 

 167 fathoms. Here described from a specimen, 8 inches in length, from 

 Charleston, South Carolina. The species is said to exhibit electric powers 

 in life, (regius, royal.) 



Blennius, sp., SCHOPF, Schrift. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, vm, 1780, 142, New York. 

 Slennius regius, WALBAUM, Artedi, Pise, in, 186, 1792; after SCHOPF. 

 Enchelyopus regalis, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 53, 1801, after SCHOPF. 

 Gadus punctatus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. 1ST. T., 1, 1815, 372, New York. 

 Urophycis regius, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 240. 

 Phycis regius, GOODE <fe BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 357, 1896. 

 Phycis regalis, GUNTHEE, Cat., iv, 355, 1862. 

 Phycis punctatus, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 292, 1842. 



2925. UROPHTCIS CIRRATUS, Goode & Bean. 



Head 4; depth 5. D. 10-66; A. 57; scales 6-93-20. Body moderately 

 btout; eye large, about 4 in head; interorbital space 2 in eye. Maxillary 

 not reaching posterior margin of orbit in large specimens, but in smaller 

 ones it extends fully to that vertical; mandible extending far beyond 

 posterior margin of eye, its length about equal to postorbital part of head; 

 barbel minute in all examples examined, its length usually about | that 

 of eye. Teeth in villiforin bands in both jaws, the intermaxillary bands 

 being wider than those of mandible; vomerines in a narrow villiform 

 band. Gill rakers 2 -f 12, the largest club-shaped at end, the longest 4 in 

 eye. Gill membranes attached to isthmus, but with a narrow, free pos- 

 terior border. Length of pectorals about | distance from ventral to anal 

 origin, reaching to about the twenty-sixth row of scales ; ventral reaching 

 in some specimens slightly beyond origin of anal; in 1 individual almost 

 to middle of anal fin ; none of the dorsal rays filamentous, the longest from 

 2^ to 3 times in head ; base of first dorsal about equal to length of eye in 

 most specimens ; in smaller examples somewhat greater, about 3 in head ; 

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