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GADID^. 
“ Body more or less elongate, covered with 
small smooth scales. One, two, or three dorsal 
fins, occnpying nearly the whole of the hack ; rays 
of the posterior dorsal well developed ; one or two 
anal fins ; caudal 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- 
memhranes generally not attached to the isthmus. 
Pseudohranchise none, glandular, rudimentary ; 
an air-bladder and pyloric appendages generally 
present. 
“Mostly inhabitants of the sea. Arctic and 
temperate regions.” 
PSEUDOPHYCIS. 
The genus Pseuclophycis was formed by Dr. Grunther on the 
Lota Breviusoula of Richardson Erebus and Terror"^. This 
sort was found on the coast of iYew 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 Lotella, 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 ; 
