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ander den 6te Dorsalstraale, den sidste en halv Hoved- 

 længde fra Haleroden. Mellemrummene mellem dem kunne 

 være næsten aden Fletter, saaledes som hos enkelte Hunner, 

 eller opfyldte af mindre Pletter, der ogsaa udbrede sig 

 nedenfor Legemets Midtlinie, aden dog aogensinde at naa 

 en saadan Størrelse, som de 5 sture Tverpletter. Nedad 

 Dorsalen lobe hos de addre Individer omtrent 14 skråa 

 Tverbaand. ligesom ogsaa Caudalen altid har distincte Tver- 

 baand. 



Hos et Individ fra Christianiafjorden, som jeg havde 

 Lejlighed til at undersøge i levende Tilstand (en gammel 

 Han, med en Totallængde at' 171"""), fandt jeg Ho vedets 

 Farve blaalig-gron. marmoreret med -brune Fletter ; et smalt 

 gulagtigt Baand løb ned ■ foran hvert Øje. og et lignende 

 tvers over Smulen, hvilke tilsammen indesluttede en triangu- 

 lær brunsort Plet. En sort Plet fandt.es ogsaa paa Gjælle- 

 laaget. Iris var mat messingfarvet, dets Ovre Rand næ- 

 sten sort. 



Føde. Ventrikelen indeholdt adskillige hele yngre 

 Individer at Themisto libdlula, samt en at' de skjælbeklædte 

 Annelider (Lepidonote). 



Udbredelse. Reinhardts Exemplarer af hans L. acu- 

 leatus vare alle fra Grønland. Fra Spitsbergen har den 

 hicltil ikke været omtalt ; men foruden Exemplaret fra Mag- 

 dalenebay har jeg, som ovenfor nævnt, havt Anledning til 

 at undersøge enduu et ved Spitsbergen erholdt Exemplar. 

 Fremdeles optræder den langs den norske Kyst. dog som 

 det synes, klethele ikke talrigt. lige ned til Christianiafjor- 

 den; mod Syd gaar den ned til Rysterne af Bohuslen (58"). 

 ■fra hvilken Localitet Arten oprindelig af Fries blev beskre- 

 ven i 1837, og hvor flere Exemplarer ogsaa i de senere 

 Aar ere fundne. Paa Nord-Americas Østkyst gaar den 

 ifolge Goode & Bean (.1879) ned lige til New-Énglands 

 Kyster, idet den er i flere Individer erholdt i Bugten uden- 

 for Massachusetts (42 u ). 



17. Lumpenus lampetraeformis, (Walb.) 1792. 



Bhnnius eapite laei-i, etc., Mohr, Isl. Naturh. p. «4, tab. 4 (1786): 

 Blennius lampetraeformis, Walb. Art. Gen. Pisc. p. 1*4 (1792). 

 Centronotus islandicus, Bloch, ' Schneid. ,Syst. Ichth. p. 167 (1801).. 

 Blennius lumpenus, pt. Faber, Fis. -ln- Isl. p. T'.> (1829). 

 Centronotus lumpenus, Xilss. Prodr. Ichth. Scand. p. 104 (1832). 

 OUmu nebulosus, Fries, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1S37, p. 49 ils:i7). 

 Clinus mohrii, Kr. Naturh. Tidsskr. 1 R. 1 B. 1837, p. 32 (1837). 



immediately beneatb the 6tb dorsal rav. the terminal spot 



bein;; distant half the length of the head from the origin 



of the tail.- The disjunctive spaces sometimes almost spotless, 

 for instance in some females, or covered with smaller spots, 

 likewise extending below the mesial line, but all of them 

 ol' a si/.e considerably less than that of the large transverse 

 spots. The dorsal, in mature individuals, marked with 

 about 14 oblique transverse bars; the caudal, too. is in- 

 variably traversed by distinct transverse bands. 



In one individual, taken in the Christiania Fjord, 

 which 1 had an opportunity of examining while still alive 

 (an old male, total length 171"""), the colour of the head 

 was bluish-green, freckled with brown spots; a narrow- 

 yellowish band extended downwards in front of each eye. and 

 another traversed the snout: enclosing together a triangular 

 patch of brownish-black. A black spot occurs, too. on the 

 gill-plate. Irides' of the colour of tarnished brass, almost 

 black above. 



Food. The ventricle contained several perfect 



examples of Themisto libellula, and a testaceous Annelid 

 (Lepidonote). 



Distribution. — Reinhardts specimens of L. aculeafus , 

 were all from the coast of Greenland. From Spitsbergen; 

 it had not previously been mentioned. But. exclusive of 

 the specimen from Magdalene Bay. I have had an oppor- 

 tunity, as before observed, of examining another indi- 

 vidual taken on the coast of Spitzbergen. Moreover, the 

 species occurs along the shores of Norway, but not. it would 

 seem, as a common fish, from the extreme north to the 

 Christiania Fjord: its range southwards e-xtends to Bohus- 

 len (58"). the locality in which the specimen described 

 by Fries in 1837 was taken, and several examples have 

 been met with there of late years. ( >n the eastern coast 

 of North America, according to Goode A: Bean (1^79). the 

 range of the species extends as far south as the coast 

 of New England, divers individuals having been obtained 

 in Massachusetts Bay (42<'). 



17. Lumpenus lampetraeformis, (Walb.) 1792. 



HI,,,,,,, is 'capiti hi,;. ,t<\ Mohr, Is]. Saturh. p. 84', tali. 4 (1786). 

 Blennius lampetrceformis, Wall). Art. (Jen. Pise, p. 184 (1792). 

 Centronotus islandicus, Bloch, Schneid. Syst. Ichth. p. 167 (1801). 

 t:l< milas In, ii/ii mis. pt. Faber, Fische Isl. p. 79, (1829). 

 Centronotus lumpenus, Nilss. Prodr. Ichth. Scand. p. 104 (1832). 

 Clinus nebulosus, Fries, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1>:'.T. p. 49 (1837). 

 Clinus mohrii, Kr. Xaturh. Tidsskr. 1 R. 1 B. 1837, p. :V> (.1837). 



