38 BALMONIDiE. 



Continental specimens. 



It, UK. Females, 20 and 13 inclies long, Denmark. Presented by 

 the CoiJenhageu Museum. Caught in November ; ova mature, 

 Caec. pyl. 42 and 49. 



vu, ivw. Males, 17 and 14 inches long. Jutland. Presented by the 

 Copenhagen Museum. Caught in November ; sexual organs 

 not developed. Ca^c. pyl. 49. These specimens had freely fed 

 on marine Amphipodes and sea-fishes (Ammodytes), and there- 

 fore must have been caught in the sea. 



.V.V, yy. Females, 8 and 10 inches long. Jiitland. Presented by 

 the Copenhagen Museum. Caught La November ; sexual organs 

 not developed. 



zz. Fine female specimen, 30 inches long. Sogne Fjord, Norway. 

 Presented by Prof. N. S. Maskelyne. 



Osteology. 

 aa. Adult male ; skeleton. Khymney. Presented by the Rev. 

 Augustus Morgan. 



Description of an Adult Male specimen from the Bhymney, taken 

 duriny the spawning -time. 



inches. 



Total length 24 



Greatest depth of the body 4J 



Length of the head Si- 

 Girth of the biggest part of the body 10 



Least dejjth of the taU 1|- 



Girth of the narrowest part of the tail 4| 



Distance between the end of the snout and the eye. . 1| 



Length of the maxillary bone 2 



Distance between eye and angle of praeoperculum ... 1| 



Greatest width of operculum l-l- 



Greatest depth of ditto If 



Distance between occiput and origin of dorsal fin . . . 6|- 



Distance between end of dorsal and root of caudal . . 8| 



Length of base of dorsal 2| 



Greatest height of dorsal 2f 



Length of pectoral 2X 



Distance between root of pectoral and root of ventral 5| 



Length of ventral fin 2f 



Distance between root of ventral and origin of anal . . 4| 



Length of anal 11 



Greatest depth of anal 2| 



Length of longest caudal ray 3 



Length of middle caudal ray 1| 



The greatest depth of the body is below the origin of the dorsal fin, 

 and is contained five times in the total length (without caudal) ; the 

 length of the head is contained four times and a half in the same. 



