LYCODES INCISUS. 135 



Lycodes incisus sp. n. 



Plate XXX. fig. 2. 



Br. r. G; D. 100; A. 85-88; V. 2 ; P. 18-19; C. 10. 



The body is compressed and tapers gradually on upper, lower, and 

 lateral outlines. From the snout to the vent is close npon twice the length 

 of the head. Head nearly as broad as deep, tapering regularly from nape 

 to snout, about one fifth of the total length. Occipital portion of the skull 

 flattened, as broad as long, with a faint median ridge. Outline of skull 

 straight from snout to nape. Snout not as deep as that of L. cicnirifcr and 

 others, nearly as wide as the head, rounded in front, prominent behind the 

 nostrils at the sides ; lower jaw shorter, included. Mouth wide ; cleft 

 reaching a vertical from the fiont of the eye; maxillary subtending the 

 anterior half of the eye. Eye moderately large, three fifths of the snout, 

 less than one sixth of the head. Width of the interorbital space about half 

 the length of the orbit. Nostrils small, with short tubes, situated near the 

 end of the snout and the edge of the lip. Teeth small, in two series on 

 the intermaxillary near the symphysis; in four series on the mandibles; in 

 a bunch of two or three series on the vomer; and in a single short series 

 on each palatine. Mucous pores and cavities in the bones large. Pectorals 

 short, about two fifths of the length of the head, broad, rounded, and 

 deeply fringed on the outer margin, bases one diameter of the orbit in 

 advance of midway from the snout to the origin of the anal. Origin of the 

 dorsal above the axil of the pectoral. Anal origin below the nineteenth 

 ray of the dorsal. Yentrals, short, two thirds as long as the eye, with two 

 rays, stiff but slender, clubshaped. Caudal short, rounded, continuous with 

 dorsal and anal. 



Scales very small, not in contact, smaller on dorsal, anal, and caudal. 

 Head and pectorals scaleless. 



Blackish on head, belly, and fins; a little lighter or brown on the 

 muscular portions of the body. 



Total lena-th seven inches and a half. 



