474 Goode and Bean—Two new species of Fishes. 
Lycodes Verrillii, sp. nov. 
The extreme length of specimen described 0°127 m. (five 
inches). 
Body more elongate than in any other described species of 
that section of the genus occurring in arctic seas, except L, 
Sarsit Kroyer: its greatest height (0010 m.) equal to its great- 
est width between pectorals (0010 m.) and nearly one-thirteenth 
of its total length. 
Distance of vent from ventrals (0°023 m.) slightly greater 
than length of head (Om. 022), which is contained about five 
and two-third times in total length. Distance of vent from 
snout (0-041 m.) about one-third length of body. 
Head, body and fins enveloped in tough lax skin.. 
Scales cycloid, circular and ovate, 0:00025 m. to °00085 in 
diameter, with numerous concentric stri#, and with about 
eighteen lobes upon margin, the whole perrimeter being lobed : 
they are deeply imbedded in the skin at distances from each 
other equal to their own diameters: they are most numerous 
upon the upper half of the body, and extend upon the base of 
the dorsal; very few upon the lower half of the body; and are 
absent from the anal fin. : 
Head much depressed, its width (0-014 m.) considerably 
greater than its height (0°010 m.) which equals length of post- 
orbital portion 6f head (0-010 m.) and double the width of the 
inter-orbital space (0005 m.). Length of maxillary (0011 m.) 
is half the length of the head (0-022 m.): the maxillary extends 
nearly to the perpendicular from the posterior margin of the 
orbit. Diameter of orbit (0°004 m.) is half the length of snout 
(0°008 m.). 
Viewed from above the snout is somewhat obtusely rounded, 
and a line drawn through the center of the eyes would form 
with the sides of the snout a figure approximating in shape -an 
equilateral triangle, the angle of the snout being rounded. 
Upper jaw far overlapping under jaw; gape extending from 
ventral to center of orbit. 
A series of large pores, six on each side, extends backward 
from nostril toward angle of operculum, following line of upper 
jaw at a distance above it about equal to diameter of pupil. 
The fourth of this series, counting backward, is under the cen- 
ter of orbit, the last is situated about two-thirds of the distance 
from snout to angle of operculum. : 
A similar series, seven on each side, follows line of lower 
jaw from its symphysis obliquely upward toward angle of oper- 
culum, in such direction that if the maxillary row were con- 
tinued by the addition of a single pore to the series, the two 
lines would intersect. A line connecting the fourth pore of the 
one series with the fourth pore of the other would intersect the 
