212 fishes. 



L. ; Salvian., fol. 230. (The Sea-Tench). The most common in 

 the Mediterranean ; its anterior dorsal is round, and not higher than 

 the other; ventrals about the length of the head. 



P. blennoides, Schn.; Gad. albidus, Gm. ; Blennius gadoides, 

 Riss. ; Gad. furcatus, Penn. ; Merlus barbu, Duham. II, pi. xxv, 

 f. 4. (The Forked Hake). Another species that is also taken in 

 the Ocean ; the first dorsal is more elevated, and its first ray consi- 

 derably elongated ; ventrals twice the length of its head *. 



Raniceps, Cuv., 



Have the head more depressed than that of a Phycis or of any other Cod, 

 and the anterior dorsal so extremely small, that it is lost, as it were, in the 

 thickness of the skin. From the Ocean-)-. 



It is impossible to avoid approximating to the Gadi the following genus, 

 ' ) 



• Macrourus, Bl. — Lepidolfprus, Risso. 



Their suborbitals unite in front with each other, and with the bones of 

 the nose, to form a depressed snout, which projects above the mouth, and 

 beneath which the latter preserves its mobility. The entire head and 

 body are invested witli hard scales covered with small spines; ventrals 

 small and somewhat jugular; pectorals moderate ; first dorsal short and 

 high; the second dorsal and the anal both very long, uniting in a point at 

 the caudal; only very fine and very short teeth in the jaws. They inha- 

 bit deep water, and when taken from it utter sounds similar to those pro- 

 duced by a Gristes. 



Two species are captured in the depths of the Ocean and ihe Me- 

 diterranean, the Lepidol. ccelorhijnchus and tranehyrynchus of 

 Risso, Ed. I, pi. vii, f. 21 and 22 +. 



* The above characters were taken down by me with both the fishes under my eye. 

 The Batrackdides Gmelini, Riss., Ed. I, fig. 16, does not differ from our first species. 

 Add the Enchelyoims americanux, Schn., or Btennitt-i chubs, Nat. of Berl. VII, 143, or 

 Gaiius longipes, Mitch. I, 4. N. B. The fig. of Schn., pi. vi, is improperly referred 

 to the Phycis tinea, as has been truly remarked by M. de la Roche, Ann. Mus. XIII, 

 p. 333; it is rather that of the G. longipes. 



f The Gadus raninus, Mull. Zool. Dan., pi. 45. Blennius r animus, Gmel. Batra- 

 choides blenniaides; Lacep. Phycis ranina, EL Schn. 57; — the Gadus trifurcatus, 

 Penn., Brit. Zoo]. Ill, pi. 32. Phycis fusca, Schn. 



X Direct comparison has satisfied me that the Lepidoleprus ccelorh ynchus of the 

 Mediterranean, Risso, Ed. I, pi. vii, f. 22, does not differ in the least from the Ma- 

 crourus rupestris, Bl. 177, or Coryp/ieenu rupestris, Gmel., Gunner, Mem. de Dronth. 

 Ill, pi. iii, f. 1. On the other hand, the Lepidoleprus trachyrhynchus, Risso, lb., 

 f. 21, is the same fish as the Oxycephas scabrus, Rafin., Indie, pi. 1, f. 2. The same 

 species, or one closely allied to it, is given in the Atlas of Krusenst. pi. lx, f. 8 and 

 9. Giorna had also furnished incomplete figures of the two species, Mem. of the Ac. 

 of Turin, Vol. IX, pi. 1. The Lepidoleprus Iracltyihynchus is also the Mysticetus of 

 Aldrovand. Pise. p. 342. 



