136 DEEP SEA FISHES. 



Lycodes cicatrifer sp. n, 



Plate XXXI. fig. 1. 



Br. r. 6 ; D. 112 ; A. 105 ; V. 3 ; P. 18 ; C. 11. 



Though this s^^ecies is easily recognized its departures from the oi'dinary 

 types of Lj'codes are not very niarlied. The body is moderately elongate, 

 slender and compressed ; the tail maintains a considerable thickness and 

 strength to the end. Depth about one eleventh of the total length, or 

 one half of the length of the head. Head retaining its size forward on 

 the snout, as deep as wide, flat on the parietal region ; flat area longer 

 than broad; interorbital space narrow, higher in the median line. Midway 

 from eye to pectoral a transverse section of the head is subquadrate, Fronr 

 nape to internarial region the head is nearly straight. Snout broad, thick, 

 deep, bluntly rounded at the end, approximately twice as long as the eye. 

 Mouth large, the cleft subtending one third, and the maxillary little more 

 than one half of the eye ; lower jaw hardly any shorter than the upper. 

 Teeth small, in bands on the jaws, in a bunch on the vomer, and in a short 

 single series of a few teeth on the palatines. In the outer series on the 

 jaws the teeth are separated and larger. Lips not greatly swollen. Eyes 

 medium, nearly half as long as the snout. Length of orbit one and 

 two fifths times the interorbital width. Along the face the pores form 

 large whitish excavations resembling scars. The pores of the lateral line 

 are small ; the series descends rapidly on the side of the belly, and is not 

 to be recognized backward of the origin of the anal fin. From the snout 

 to the vent is twice the length of the head. Scales small, absent from the 

 head and the pectoral fins. The other fins are enveloped for the most 

 part in a thick skin and covered by smaller scales. Dorsal and anal long, 

 low, continuous with caudal. Dorsal origin above the middle of the 

 pectoral. Caudal short. Pectoi-als broad, inserted midwaj^ fi'oin snout to 

 vent, fringed, ending in an angle. Ventrals small nearly as long as the 

 orbit, tapering to a very slender filament, with three rays, of which the 

 anterior one is qiiite short. Total length nine and one fourth inches. 



Head, pectorals, and belly black ; muscular tracts brownish ; dorsal 

 and anal blackish. 



station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature. Bottom. 



33UO 6° 17' N. 82° 5' W. 1672 fathoms 36.4° F. Fn. bk. dk. gii. s. 



