44 Shufeldt — Robert Collett on Pterycombvs brama Fries. 



Coast of Tromso. 

 Nord-Reisen, October, 1895 Mus. Stuttgart. 



Coast of Nordi.and. 

 Alderen, April, 1895 Trondhjem Museum. 



( oast of Bergen. 

 Bergen (prior to 1861) Bergen Museum. 



Southern Coast of Norway. 

 Egersund, 1880 Stavanger Museum. 



The eight (nine?) specimens which are now contained in the various 

 museums of Norway measure as follows: 



( Measurements in millimeters. ) 



It will be observed that the total length of the specimens varies from 

 370 millimeters to 465 millimeters,* and all of the specimens were appar- 

 ently adult. The two specimens in the Swedish Museums are of the same 

 size as those just given. 



The majority of the specimens of which we have any data were found 

 floating on the surface of the water, and either dead or in a dying condi- 

 tion; others are beach specimens, having drifted ashore. One example, 

 it is said, was taken by hook and line at a depth of a couple of hundred 

 fathoms, some three miles west of Bergen, and still another (Varanger- 

 fjord L866) was captured in a salmon net, set in rather shallow water, and 

 only a few feet below the surface. This specimen was probably about to 

 drift ashore. This last-named example was a male with enormous testes; 

 the intestine contained, besides slime, a number of hard and transparent 

 spiculse of unknown composition, as well as numerous small ScolicesA 



* In the " Fishes of Norway," 1874, the total length of the specimen taken in Veran- 

 gerfjord in 1S66, is, through a typographical error, given as 350 instead of 370 mm. 



+ Dr. Einar Lonnberg has been kind enough to examine these last. He is of the 

 opinion that they are specimens of " Scolex polymurplius " under which name he as- 

 sumes that the larvse of the genera of Acanthobothrium are included. 



