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Randen, hvor Undersidens Pelt ai samme Farve støder til. 

 Fremdeles er Snudespidsen mørkt brunsort, ligesom Hovedets 

 hele forreste Eland. Paa Undersiden have de mørkfarvede 

 Partier og den hvide Bundfarve omtrent ligestor Udstrfek- 

 ning. Disse farvede Felter gaa, hen imod Randen af Lege- 

 met (hos det i nogen Tid paa Spiritus opbevarede Exem- 

 plar) over til næsten brunsort. Ingen at' disse Felter 

 overskrider I ingens Midtlinie. 



Deres Udstrækning hos det forhaandenværende Indi- 

 vid kan kortelig beskrives paa følgende Maade. Et stort 

 sort Felt udbreder sig over den ydre Del at' Pectoralen; 

 fra Pectoralvinkelen fortsætter dette sig langs hele den 

 forreste Profilxand (men blot umiddelbart i selve Handen). 

 lige hen til Snudespidsen. Bagtil forener dette Felt sig 

 med et større Parti af samme Farve, der skyder sig op 

 paa Bugens Sider. Foran Mundspalten tindes intet farvet 

 Parti (undtagen Handen at' Smulen); men mellem Gjælle- 

 spalterne tindes en mindre Samling runde, tildels sammen- 

 flydende Pletter. Ventralerne have. ligesom Pectoralerne, 

 brunsorte Bande ; de accessoriske Generationsorganer ere lige- 

 ledes paa Undersiden sorte, hvilken Farve udbreder sig til 

 en større Plet foran deres Rod. Hele Halens Underside 

 er ensfarvet sort. 



Sandsynligvis vil denne Farvefordeling vise sig noget 

 varierende hos Individerne. 



Føde. Yentrikelen var fuldproppet af Crustaceer og 

 Fiske. Den væsentligste Del bestod af omkr. 50 kjæmpe- 

 mæssige Individer af Themisto libéllula, tildels endnu ganske 

 hele; fremdeles Stykker af den i 1874 af Buchholz i „2te 

 Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt" beskrevne smuktfarvede Decapode 

 Hymenodora glacial/.* 1 . 



F'iskene vare 3 i Antal. hvoraf idetmindste de '2 vare 

 Lycoder. Den største af dem havde en Totallængde ai 

 185" m . og en Hovedlængde af 41"""; den yderste Halespids 

 manglede, ligesom Huden og de fleste Finnestraaler. saa- 

 ledes, at Individet ikke lod sig med Sikkerhed bestemme; 

 men paa (irund af Tandbygningens Styrke, de lange og 

 brede Pectoraler, samt det store Hoved, kan det maaske 

 henføres under L. liitkeni. Den anden Unge af en 

 Lycodes var stærkere angreben af Fordojelsen, og ganske 

 ubestemmelig; af et tredie Individ fandtes blot Rygraden 

 i Behold, og denne kan ligeledes liave tilhørt en ung 

 Lycodes. 



Udbredelse. Hidtil er blot kjendt det eneste, oven- 

 for beskrevne Individ, en Han. optaget omtrent under 80» 

 X. B. i Havet vestenfor Xord-Spitsbergen ; dette er tillige 

 det nordligste Punkt paa Jorden, hvor denne Slægt hidtil 

 har været bemærket. 



1 Pasiphaé glacialis, Buchholz is. 4; Hymenodora glacialis, ti. 0. Sårs 



1*77. 



to the similarly coloured patch mi the under surface. Ex- 

 tremity ut' the snout, t'"., and the entire anterior margin 

 of the bead dark-brown, approaching tu black. On the 



under surface, the space occupied by the dark portions ol 

 the skin and the white of the ground is about equal in 

 extent. The dark symmetrical patches deepen in colour 

 as they approach the margin of the disk, almost to a 



brownish black: none of them cross the centra] abdominal line. 



Their distribution in the example obtained may be 

 briefly described as follows. A large black patch occurs on 

 the lateral margin ol' the pectorals; from the angle of the 

 pectorals it extends along the anterior line ol' the margin 

 of the body (at the extreme edge however only) to the tip 

 of the snout. Behind, this patch unites with another. 

 similarly coloured, running up the sides of the belly. 

 Anterior to the cleft (d' the mouth the skin is uniformly 

 white, save the margin of the snout: between the branchial 

 apertures occur a small cluster of round spots, some of 

 which are confluent. Edges of ventrals brownish black 

 like those of pectorals; the accessory sexual appendages' 

 on the under surface black, this colour expanding to a 

 large spot opposite their base. Under surface of tail 

 entirely black. 



This distribution of colour will probably be found to 

 vary in different individuals. 



Pood. — The stomach was full of crustaceans and 

 divers fishes. The principal part of the contents consisted 

 of about 50 enormous examples of the Hyperoid Themisto 

 libellula, several of them quite entire; and of fragments 

 of the Decapod Hymenodora glacialis 1 . described in 1874, 

 by Buchholz, in -'Zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt." 



The fishes were o in number, of which two at least 

 were Lycodes. Total length of the largest 185"""; length of 

 head 41""": the tip of the tail, the whole of the skin, and 

 most of the tin-rays were gone ; hence this individual could 

 not with certainty be determined; but the structure of the 

 teeth however, the great length and breadth of the pectoral 

 tins, and the size of the head gave reason to regard it as 

 an example of L. liitkeni, afterwards described. Another 

 young Lycodes was wholly indeterminable, being in still a more 

 advanced stage of the digestive process; of the third, the 

 vertebral column only remained — not improbably, too, 

 that of a young Lycodes. 



Distribution. - ■ The only example hitherto met with 

 is the male specimen now described, taken in lat. about 80° 

 N., at sea, west of the northern coast of Spitzbergen, the most 

 northerly locality, too, in which this genus is yet known 

 to occur. 



1 Pasiphae glacialis, Buchholz 1874; Hymenvdura glacialis, G. ( ). Sal's 

 1877. 



