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LYCODIN^. 



Distribution. 

 In Europe, L. etidipleurostictus has been caught at several places in the cold area-, and extends 

 from thence over to the east coast of Greenland and probably north of that land, as well as a stretch 

 along the west coast, as a specimen has been taken there at Umanak (70° 40' NX. ). At East Green- 

 land it has been taken in Franz Josephs Fjord, e. g. 2 specimens at 760 meters by the Nathorst 

 Expedition of 1899, and 2 specimens at 200 — 300 meters by the Kolth off Expedition of 1900. At Spitz- 

 bergen, the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition took 3 specimens at depths of 459 and 260 fathoms, 

 bottom-temperature — 1° C. and -|- i°i C.'); a Russian Expedition in 1899, °"^ specimen, where the depth 

 was 497 meters and bottom-temperature — o°9C. 2). The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition took one 

 specimen off Helgeland in Norway where the depth was 350 fathoms, and bottom-temperature — o°9 C. 

 Again, the Ingolf Expedition caught a specimen N.W. from the Fjeroes (St. 138) where the depth was 

 471 fathoms and bottom-temperature — o°6 C. Lastly, the steamer Michael Sars obtained it at the 

 following places in 1902: off the Norway-Shetland vSlope (62° 43' N.L. 1° 26' E.L.), depth 420 

 fathoms, bottom-temperature under 0° C. (2 specimens) and (62'^ 40' N.L. 1° 56' E.L.), depth 360 fathoms, 

 bottom-temperature — o°3 C. (2 specimens); east from Iceland (64° 58' N.L. 11° 12' W.L.), depth 300 

 fathoms, bottom-temperature — o°38 C. (12 specimens); and in 190x3: east from Iceland, depth 340 fathoms, 

 bottom-temperature — o°69 C. (i specimen). 



Lycodes pallidus CoUett. 



Tab. IV, Fig. i a, b, c, d, e. 



1878. Lycodes pallidns Collett, Fiske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionens sidste Togt, Sommeren 1878; Forh. 

 Vidensk. Selsk. Chria. 1878, Nr. 14, p. 70. 



1880. L. paHidns Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishe.s, p. no, PI. Ill, Fig. 26— 27. 



1886. L. pallidns Liitken, Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte, p. 134, Tab. XVII, Fig. i — 3. 



1898. L. pallidus Liitken, The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, 11, i, p. 22 (partim). 



1901. L. pallidus Knipowitsch, Zool. Ergebn. d. Ru.ss. Exped. nach Spitzbergen, Fische; Ann. Musee Zool. 

 de I'Acad. Imp. d. Sci., St. Petersbourg, T. VI, 1901, p. 23. 



1901. L. vahlii forma pallida Smitt, Bihang. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. 4, p. 24 (par- 

 tim), No. 12 & 14 — 26. 



1901. L. vahlii iorma. typica Smitt, ibid. p. 26 (partim). No. 30 — 39. 



1901. L.reticiilatus Iqxxwa frigida Smitt, ibid. p. 29 (partim). No. 2 — 9. 



In proportions of the total length the height over the anus is 83)— 10,6 "'o, the 

 length of the head 20,7 — 25,3% (in females 20,9 — 23,8%, in males 2 2— 25,3 %), the 

 distance between the snout and the anus 38 — 44,7%, the longitudinal diameter of the 

 eye 3,1 — 4,5%,. The young and smaller individuals are coloured on the back and 



') The station lies however just on the boundaries of the cold area». 



2) From the report, which Prof. N. Knipowitsch has given (I.e.) of tliis but 87,5 mm. long specimen, it is clearly 

 seen that it belongs to the same species as CoUett's «Z. cS7narkii 'yixv.y., or — in other words — that it is a L. eudipleurostictus. 



3) In weakly young specimens sometimes sinking to 7,3 °/o. 



