and Labrador, with Descriptions of New Species. 265 
Description. Length of head about one sixth length of 
body ; depth of head two thirds its length; greatest depth of 
body, directly in front of dorsal fin, equal to length of head. 
Upper jaw the longer. Jaws with numerous sharp, incurved 
teeth. Eyes laterally elongated; their diameter one third 
the distance between them. Opercles rounded posteriorly ; 
lower portion of opereulum naked, marked with concentric 
stri ; preopercle larger than in the fontinalis. 
Scales larger than those of the fontinalis. Lateral line 
commences back of superior angle of opercle, and, assuming 
the curve of the body, is lost at the commencement of the 
caudal rays. 
The first dorsal fin commences just anterior to median line ; 
is nearly quadrangular. 
Adipose fin situated at a distance back of the first dorsal, 
little less than one half the length of the fish. 
Pectorals just beneath posterior angle of operculum ; their 
length three fifths that of the head. 
Ventrals just beneath posterior portion of first dorsal; the 
plates at their base very large. 
The anal is situated at a distance back of the ventrals just 
equal to length of head, and terminates directly beneath the 
adipose fin ; of the form of first dorsal. 
Caudal deeply forked; its length equal to greater depth 
of body. iis 
D.9, P.13. V.9. A.11. C.30. Length 13j inches. 
But a single specimen of this beautiful fish was taken, and 
that by a gill net stretched aeross the mouth of a brook flow- 
ing into Red Bay, Labrador. —— | 
17. ManLorus VILLOSUS Cuv.. 
Has been noticed at Greenland by Fabricius, at Bathurst 
Inlet and Newfoundland by Richardson, and at Labrador by 
Audubon. The latter, in speaking of this favorite bait of the 
cod, does not exaggerate their numbers in the least. They 
