42 Goode and Bean—FEast-coast Fishes. 
to the vertical from the posterior margin of we hi The 
barbel scarcely equals half the diameter of the o 
The vent is situated under the et ray is the second 
dorsal, equidistant from snout and tip of ¢ 
The anal is inserted behind the vent at a t dlatahios equal to 
the length of the second anal ray; it has a considerable depres — 
sion in its riidalte and terminates in a line with the end of the 
second dorsal. : 
The pectoral is slightly more than four fifths as long as the — 
head and extends to the vertical from the ninth ray of the 
second dorsal. Its length equals greatest height of body. 4 
he longest ray of the ventral is about seven- pene of the 
length of the head, and extends half way to the ve ‘| 
Radial formula: D. 4,53; A. 40; V. 6. Seales in late : 
line about 115; above lidsial line 11. 
13. Hypsiptera argentea Ginther. 
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A single individual was taken at the surface, May, 1878, 
about forty miles off Cape May, New Jersey, by Captain Robert 
Hf. Hurlbert of Gloucester. This is an addition to elie | fauna of 
the Western Atlantic. 
14, Lota maculosa (Le Sueur) Richardson. 
After close study of a large series of specimens een deserted 
every locality from which species of ne ta ot descri 
studied, shows sixty- one ver ener Dr. Giinther gives the 
number as sixty. On the basis of this difference in the num 
vation of the number of vertebrae is very desira 
The specific name iicutan, formed by Le Sueur in 18!%, 
seems to have pri ority. Walbaum’s Wade lacustris was evi 
dently a catfish.* : 
e name vulgaris, though attributed to Cuvier and Jurine 
was not used nor claimed until in 1835 by Jenyns in his Manual 
of the Vertebrate Animals. 
15. Lycodes Verrillit Goode and Bean. 
Taken sparingly in from 73 to 114 fathoms off Cape Ann, a 
one time within seven miles of Thatcher’s Island. 
See the description and also ‘ Meieacone, | in Rich. Faun, Bor. Amer., p. 136; : 
Sa exten, Oudl x, U. S. Nat. Mus,, p. 
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