18 Pisces. 
nscES. 
GADIDiE. ' 
Brook, G. Preliminary Account of the Food of the Haddock. Rep. 
Fish. -Board Scotl. 1885, pp. 128-134. 
. Preliminary Report on the Food of the Cod. T. c. pp. 134-147. 
Ryder, J. A. Success in Hatching the Eggs of the Cod. Science, vii. 
pp. 26-28. 
Gadus morrhita , L. : note on the very young Cod ; McIntosh, Ann. 
N. H. (5) xviii, pp. 307-311 : on vegetable parasites ; Farlow, Bull. U. S. 
Fish Comm. 1886, pp. 1-4. G. minutus , L., is regarded as the young 
of G. luscus, L., by W. C. McIntosh, Ann. N. H. (5) xvii, p. 442 ; 
remarks by Day, t. c. p. 527. G. saida , Lep. ; note by Liitken, Kara- 
Havcts Fiske, p. 13. 
Merluccius bi linearis, Mitch. Habits ; W. Nye, Bull. U. S. Fish 
Comm. 1886, p. 208. 
Ophidiid^e. 
Aphyonus mollis , n. sp., Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. C. Z. xii, p. 163, 
Caribbean Sea. 
Bregmaceros atlanticus , n. sp., Goode & Bean, t. c. p. 165, off Granada 
and Nevis. 
Neobythites robustus, p. 161, off Cuba, and marginatus , p. 162, off Bar- 
badoes, n spp., Goode & Bean, t. c. 
Barathronus , n.g. Head stout ; body and tail compressed, covered closely 
by skin, scaleless ; vent far behind pectoral, included in a cleft ; mouth 
wide, oblique, the lower jaw projecting ; intermaxillary teeth rudi- 
mentary ; several fang-like teeth on the head of the vomer, none on pala- 
tines ; a few rather large, rocurved, separated teeth in the mandible ; 
nostrils close together and small ; eye visible through the skin, partly 
upon the top of the head, with or without dark pigment in the iris ; 
barbel none ; gill-rakers very numerous and slender, and rather long ; 
gill-laminae well developed on all the arches ; no pseudobranchiae ; head 
full of muciferous channels ; gill-membranes not united, but covered by 
a fold of skin ; ventrals reduced to single simple rays, placed in advance 
of the pectorals, and close to the humeral symphysis; dorsal and anal placed 
far back ; caudal scarcely differentiated, composed of rather numerous 
very slender rays upou a somewhat narrow base. Goode & Bean, t. c. 
p. 164. B. bicolor , n. sp., iul. t. c., off Guadaloupe. 
Pteridium armatum , n. sp., Doderlein, Gioru. Sci. Palerm. xvii, p. 155, 
pi i ; Nat. Sicil. v, pp. 73-80 & 105-108, pi. i, Messina. 
Xiphogadus, Swains. ( Xiphasia ). Note on specimens from Port Jack- 
son ; Ramsay & Douglas-Ogilby, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i, p. 582. 
Fierasfer. On a specimen imbedded in a Pearl-Oyster; Gunther, 
P. Z. S. 1886, p. 319, fig. 
Macrurid^e. 
Bathygadus. Gthr. ; genus characterized ; Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. 
C. Z. xii, p. 158. B. arcuatus , p. 158, and favosus, p. 160, n. spp., iid. t. c. 
off Martinique. 
