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chin with a barbel.” All this agrees well with my sort, except 
the teeth. It would appear to come very near to Forster’s Gadus 
Bacchus {Bubiginosus Solander), but the composition of the fins 
is very different. 
PSETTDOPHyCIS BAEBATTTS. 
Pseudophycis barbatus, Gunther, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. 
Hist., 1863, p, 116. 
{Bock Cod.} 
The height of the body is about three and a-half times in the 
total length, and the head four and two-third in the same ; 
the orbit is very oval, and in its largest diameter is contained 
less than four times in the length of the head ; this diameter is 
equal in length to the snout. The upper profile is regular, but 
the belly is rather inflated ; the lower jaw is slightly longer than 
the other. The teeth are very numerous, in three or four rather 
irregular rows ; they are all of the same form slender, arched, 
acute, and all of about the same size ; they are similar on both 
jaws; the chin bears a very short and slender barbel. The 
prsBoperculum is entire, and rounded ; the operculum is termi- 
nated by a strong angle, and its posterior edge bears traces of 
radiated lines. The body is rather compressed, tapers posteriorly, 
is covered with small scales, which fall very easily ; they number 
about one hundred and thirty on the longitudinal line. I find it 
very difficult, on my dry specimens, to count correctly those of 
the transverse lines, but I find thirteen over the lateral line, and 
more than twice as many below. The two dorsals are equal in 
height ; their membranes are covered with scales on considerably 
more than one-half of their height ; the first is formed of ten 
rays, the last of which is united rvith the second dorsal by a very 
low membrane ; this latter is composed, of fifty-one rays, and is 
rounded posteriorly ; the caudal is also of this form, and 
composed of twenty-seven rays ; the anal is similar to the 
second dorsal, but somewhat shorter; it has fifty-five or 
fifty-six rays. The pectorals are contained about twice in the 
length of the head, and are inserted a little behind the beginning 
of the first dorsal ; they have twenty-two rays. The ventrals are 
placed before and below the end of the operculum ; they are 
narrow, and formed of five rays, intimately joined, the external 
