408 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [22] 



15. Lota maculosa (Le Sueur) Eich. Losh; Nalime (Russian) ; 



Burbot. 



New England ; Great Lake Region ; Pennsylvania ; 

 Ohio; Missouri; Montana; British America; Kodiak 

 Island ; and northern part of Alaska. 



Little used as food except in Montana and in northern 

 regions. Reaches its largest size in the Yukon River. 



32458. Kodiak, Alaska. W. J. Fisher. 



LYCODID.E. 



16. Gymnelis viridis (Fabr.) Reinhardt. 



Northern Atlantic and Pacific, on the east coast of 

 North America, extending as far south as the Gulf 

 of Saint Lawrence ; on the west coast reaching the 

 Shumagin Islands. 



Young individuals, 104 millimeters in length, were 

 found in Plover Bay, Siberia, September 14, 1880. 



24001. Unalashka, Alaska. W. H. Dall. 



17. Lycodcs turnerii Bean. Turner's Lycodes. 



Northern Alaska and Eastern Siberia. Known from 

 Saint Michael's and Plover Bay. 



Young examples, 34 millimeters long, were dredged 

 in Plover Bay August 13, 1880 ; they show distinctly 

 the cross bands characteristic of the adult. 



27552. Plover Bay, East Siberia. Dall & Bean. 



CRYPTACANTHIDiE. 



18. Delofiepis virgatus Bean. Scaled Wrymouth. 



Washington Territory to Southern Alaska. 



This remarkable genus was discovered by Capt. Henry E. 

 Nichols, U. S. N., during the summer of 1880. Judge 

 J. G. Swan has recently forwarded the species from 

 Port Townsend, Washington Territory, where it was 

 obtained from the stomach of a seal. 



29149. (E.) Head of Kingcombe Inlet, B. C, August 2, 1881. Capt. H. E. 

 Nichols. 



STICH^ID^E. 



19. Stichaeus punctata s (Fabr.) Reinhardt. 



Arctic seas ; on the east coast of North America extend- 

 ing south to Halifax; in Alaska, known to occur south- 

 ward to Kodiak Island, where it is not uncommon. 



24012. Saint Michael's, Alaska. H. M. Bannister. 



