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GADID.E. 



" Body more or less elongate, covered with 

 small smooth scales. One, two, or three dorsal 

 fins, occupying nearly the whole of the back; rays 

 of the posterior dorsal well developed ; one or two 

 anal fins ; candal free from dorsal to anal, or if 

 they are united, the dorsal with a separate anterior 

 portion. Ventrals jugular, composed of several 

 rays, or if they are reduced to a filament, the dorsal 

 is divided into two. Gill opening wide ; the gill- 

 membranes generally not attached to the isthmus. 

 Pseudobranchise none, glandular, rudimentary; 

 an air-bladder and pyloric appendages generally 

 present. 



"Mostly inhabitants of the sea. Arctic and 

 temperate regions." 



PSEUD OPHTCIS. 



The genus PseudopJiycis was formed by Dr. G-unther on the 

 Lota Breviuscula of Richardson (" .Erebus and Terror'''''). This 

 sort was found on the coast of New Zealand, and is very nearly 

 allied to the fish I describe here. In fact, the only differences 

 consist in the body, which is much shorter, and in the form of 

 the ventrals, which, in Richardson's plate, are represented by a 

 long bifid filament. This form of the ventrals does not admit of 

 the fish I here describe being placed with it, and I should have 

 to class it with Lotetta, a genus established by Kaup, and 

 characterised, in Dr. Grunther's Catalogue, as follows : — " Body 

 of moderate length, covered with small scales ; a separate caudal ; 

 two dorsal fins and one anal ; ventral fins with a flat base, and 

 composed of several rays ; teeth in the upper jaw in a band, with 

 an outer series of larger ones ; vomerine or palatine teeth, none ; 



