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Totallængden af det andel Individ er 80 . Boved- 

 længden I2""\ Farven er nogenlunde vel bibeholdl paa 

 Legemets Sider, og viser omtrent II brede brunsorte ring- 

 formige Tverpletter, der i. .Midten ere lysere; dette Exem- 

 plar svarer idethele til den Form, smil al' ( iiintlier (('at. 



B1sb.es Brit. Mus. vol. IV. p. 325) opføres sum en distinct 

 Art under Navn al' Q. pidus, men som neppe kan ansees 

 som skilt fra den typiske '■'. rir/flis. hvilket allerede Malm- 

 åren tidligere har paavist (6fv. Kgl. Vet. Ak. Forh. L864, 

 p. 514) 1 . At' de Kroyer-Keilihardt'ske \'arieteter gaar det 

 nærmest ind under var. //. aden dog ganske at svare til 

 denne. (Ofr. Naturh. Tidsskr. 3 Et. 1 1!.. p; 260, Kbhvn. 

 .1861—63). 



Totallængden. af det største Individ er 143™", Hoved- 

 længden 25""".; Kjæverne naa tilbage til Bagranden afØjet. 

 Hovedet indeholdes 2 1 /.; Gause i Alstandeii fra Snudespid- 

 sen til Anus. . 



Ligesom hos Slægten Lycodes ere I forsal- og Anal- 

 straaleme leddede, samt ved G runden delte med et ty de- 

 list Mellemrum, hvorimbd hver Halvdel senere er sammen- 

 hengende. Straaleantallot var hos det storste Individ': D. 

 92; C. ?; A. 10. 



I Munden af det sidste Individ fandtes et Exemplar 

 at' Modiotaria laevigata, Gray. 



Udbredelse. Er maaske circumpblær, og er truffet 

 saavel i Berings-Strædet, som ved Rysterne af det arctiske 

 America og Europa. I størst Antal er den iudsamlet ved 

 Grønlands Kyster, hvor den synes at maatte henregnes til 

 de almindeligste Fiskearter. I Øst-Grønland blev den af 

 den engelsk-arctiske Expedition indsamlet i 1875 — 76 mod 

 Nord lige op til 81° 52' N. B. Allerede de svenske Polar- 

 Expeditioner have fondet den. men først under det sidste 

 Togt (1872) i nogen Mængde, ved Spitsbergen, og den 

 gaar her op til de nordligste Punkter, der have været 

 undersøgte; derimod er den endnu ikke paavist paa Ame- 

 ricas Østkyst søndenfor Grønland, eller ved det europæiske 

 Continent. 



1 Næsteu alle unge Individer, optagne ved Spitsbergen muler de 

 sidste Expedition,!- (1864—72), og sein opbevares i Hik --Museum i 

 Stockholm, hvor jeg i 1ST!» ved Prof. Smitts Velvillie havde Lejlighed 

 at undersøge dem, tilhøre Formen pictiis; idet Legemet er tegnet med 

 sadelformige Tverbaand; enkelte Individer ere i Midten af Legemet 

 næsten ganske sorte, og havde blot oventil Sper af lysere Tver- 

 baand. 



Total length of the second specimen Si )■■""; length of 

 the head li'""". The coloration is comparatively well re- 

 tained on the sides, exhibiting about 1 1 broad, brownish- 

 black, annular transverse spots, lighter in the middle; this 



specimen agrees in all essential features with the form re- 

 ferred by Gtinther (Cat. Pishes Brit. Mus. vol.IV, p. 325) 

 to a separate species, under the name of <!. pidus, hut 

 which, as already shown h\ Malmgren (Ofv. Kgl. Vet. Ak. 

 Korh. L864, ]i. 514). ' can hardly be distinct from the typi- 

 cal G. viridis. Of the varieties established by KrSyer and 

 Reinhardt, it comes nearest to that indicated bj va/r.y; but 

 even with this form it does not strictly agree/w'jfe Naturh. 

 Tidsskr. 3 K. I 11. . p. 260, Khhvn. L86.1 — 63). 



Total length of the largest individual 143""*; length 

 of the head 25""*; jaws reaching hack to the posterior 

 margin of the eve: head contained twice and one-third 

 in the distance from the point of the snout to the vent. 



As .in the genus Lycodes, the dorsal and anal rays 

 articulated, and distinctly cleft to the hase. the halves, how- 

 ever, being from thence connate. Number of fin-rays in the 

 largest specimen: — D. 92; C. ? '; A. 10. 



The last-mentioned individual had in its mouth an 

 example of Modiolaria laevigata, Gray. 



Distribution. — Possibly circuinpolar: it has been 

 met with both in Behriug's Straits and on the shores of 

 Arctic America and Europe. The greatest number of spec- 

 imens have been collected on the coasts of Greenland, 

 where it would seem to be one of the commonest fishes. 

 Off the coast of East Greenland, it was taken on the Eng- 

 lish Arctic Expedition in 1875 — 76. as far north as 81" 

 52'. The species had previously been met with on the 

 Swedish Polar Expeditions; but not in any great abun- 

 dance till 1872, off the coast of Spitsbergen, its range here 

 extending to the most northerly localities; if has not as yet 

 been observed on the eastern coast of America, south of 

 Greenland, or on the shores of the European continent. 



1 Nearly ;<ll the young individuals taken off the coast of Spitz- 

 bergen mi the latest of the Swedish Expeditions (Isii4 — 72), and 

 which are preserved in the Kiks Museum at Stockholm, where, in 

 1879, Professor Smitt kindly permitted me to examine them, belong 

 te the form pictus, the body, being marked with saddle-shaped trans- 

 verse bands; seme of the individuals, however, are almost Mack on 

 if.' middle of the body, the upper part only exhibiting traces of 

 transverse bands. 



