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as dark cross-stripes. The tail has only 5 dark Ijands. None of the bands show, as in the yonnger 

 stage, any sharp bonndaries below, as the gronnd colour has here become dark, but they stand out 

 clearly against the \ello\v-white colour of the back and dorsal fin. The neck-band is more strongly deve- 

 loped than in the younger individual and extends from gill-cover to gill-cover as a narrow, light band. 

 The number of rays in the fins is in tolerably close agreement with that in the younger 

 specimen, namely 94 in the dorsal fin, 75 in the anal and 21 in the pectoral. 



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Fijj. 14. Lycodcs sciuinudiis Reiiih. ($). X i. S. from Jan Slayeii, 371 fathoms. Ingolf Expedition 1S96. 



Lastly, amongst the specimens from the Kara Sea labelled by Littken L. pallidus^ I have 

 found a voung Lvcodes which undoubtedly belongs to the species L. seminiidics ; this specimen is not 

 named with the other L. pallidns in Liitken's report on the fi.shes of the Dijmphna Expedition, so 

 that L. has probabh- regarded the determination as less certain. 



Its proportions are as follows: 



Total length 87 mm. 



Length of the head 22,5 — 



Distance from snout to anus 40 — 



Height over the anus 8 — 



The length of the head is thus 25,9 "'o, the distance between the snout and the anus 46 %, 

 the height over the anus 9,2 ■^ „ of the total length, which numbers fall within those found in L. scmi- 

 nndus. Just as certain a mark of recognition Hes in the small pectorals whose length is only 

 10,3 °'o of the total length; they contain 19 rays. 



Although the specimen is somewhat bleached, one can readily see that the colouration in the 

 main has been the same as in the smaller specimen just described, namely 8 broad, dark and dark- 

 iDordered cross-bands, 2 on the body and 6 on the tail, in addition a dark spot at the end of the 

 caudal fin; on the neck one can detect signs of a light cross-band. Scales have begun to appear on 

 the tail, at some distance behind the anus. 



It was taken by the Dijmphna Expedition in the Kara Sea at 92 fathoms depth. 



Distribixtion. 



A .specimen was taken at West Greenland at each of the following locaHties: Godthaab, 

 Jakobshavn, Karajak Fjord (in the innermost part of Umanak Fjord, 200 meters depth) and Umanak, 

 also 4 specimens at Upernivik. At East Greenland the Nathorst Expedition of 1899 took a 

 specimen as far up as 74' 52' N.L. 17" 16' W.L. (S. from Shannon Island), 350 meters, and 2 specimens in 



