Shufeldt — Robert Collett on Pterycombus brama Fries. 43 



the scales on the body, Fries's original figure of the dried Type-specimen 

 is here reproduced. 



Finally, this genus is dealt with by Struxberg in his recently published 



■Fish Fauna" (11), and his description is accompanied by a reduced 

 reproduction of Fries's figure already referred to above. 



Since 1834, then, when the first specimen of this genus was secured by 

 the Government Museum in Stockholm from Finmarken, and was there 

 described by Fries in 1837, 13 specimens at least have been taken on the 

 coasts of Norway and have been preserved.* Of these one specimen, 

 according to the account given by Professor Loven, has already been sent 

 to France ;t together with the type-specimen, one has been sent to the 

 Museum at Stuttgart; the remaining specimens are all preserved (with 

 the exception of one which has been lost trace of) in the various Museums 

 of Norway, in Stockholm and in Upsala. 



With the exception of three, all of these 13 specimens were taken in 

 the arctic seas, or along a stretch of coast-line extending from Tromso 

 and Altenfjord up to Varangerfjord. Of the remaining ones, one came 

 from Nordland, one from the reefs off Bergen, and one from Egersund. 



These widely separated points of capture, extending from the southern- 

 most point of Norway to the Russian boundary, would appear to confirm 

 the above made suggestion, that Pterycombus brama is a pelagic rather 

 than a true arctic species. $ 



Finmarken. 



Hammerf est (prior to 1834) (dried) . Government Museum Stockholm. 



Altenfjord (prior to 1837) One to France. 



Finmarken (prior to 1801) Bergen Museum 



Finmarken (prior to 1861) . . sent to Bergen Museum. (Skeleton) 



Univer. of Christiania. 

 Finmarken (prior to 1861) . . . sent to Bergen Museum. (Dried) 



Upsala Museum. 

 Finmarken (prior to 1861) . . . . sent to Bergen Museum. (Dried) ? 

 Varangerfjord (prior to 18(51) (Dried) . . . Univ. Museum Christiania. 



Varangerfjord, October 29, 1866 Univ. Museum Christiania. 



Hammerfest, November 28, 1877 Tromso Museum. 



*It is evident that this fish has been found much oftener and not preserved. Fre- 

 Quently specimens have come into the hands of fishermen, who wen' unfamiliar with 

 it. but whose descriptions point to the fact of there having been examples of either 

 I'll rycombv-8 or else Brama, and these specimens have been thrown away by their cap- 

 tors as valueless. As an example of this, we know of such a specimen having been 

 taken at Andenses in Vesteraalen in 1876, and still another at Alstens in Helgeland 

 (Nordland) in December, 1877. 



t Fries, Kgl. Vet. Acad. Handl., 1837, p. lo. 



tin 1868 Professor Esmark (Forh. Skand. Naturf. Mode i Chra. 1868) (Proc. of tli,. 

 <'oiitf. of Scandinavian Naturalists at Christiania. 1868, p. 522) states that: "to my 

 knowledge, seven specimens in all have been received by the University." What he 

 probably in. 'ant to convey here is— instead of the University— all the Museums of the 

 country, for I meet with no proof that the collection of the University ever contained 

 more than the three specimens named above. 



