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diagnosis

The body is shaped much as in Lycodes Verrillii; its greatest height, at origin of dorsal, contained about eighteen times in the length of the body. Scales as in Lycodes, the scales not extending out upon the fins. The head and nape are also scaleless. Lateral line apparently obsolete posteriorly, not extending back of the extremity of the pectoral. The length of the head is contained about seven times in the entire length. The diameter of the eye is contained 2 i times in the length of the head, and is about equal to the postorbital portion of the head. The eye is placed high, the width of the interorbital space being less than the diameter of the pupil, and contained 3 | times in the long diameter of the eye. Nostrils immediately in front of the eye. Teeth as in Lycodes. The maxilla extends to the vertical through the anterior margin of the pupil; the mandible, to a little behind the vertical through the posterior margin of the pupil. The dorsal fin is inserted slightly behind the vertical through the base of the pectoral; the portion of the fin present in the mutilated specimen before us contains 80 articulated rays. The first ten or eleven scutes do not support rays, but whethe

Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer “ Blake, ” Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding.

materials_examined

The single mutilated specimen was from Station 337. It measured 112 millimeters in its imperfect condition.

Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer “ Blake, ” Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding.