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 Measurements, 



Current number of specimen . 

 Locality • 



26184. 

 Station 487. 



Extreme length 



Lcnstb to Daso of middle caudal rays. 

 Body : 



Greatest height 



Greatest width 



Head : 



Greatest length 



Greatest width 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal: 



Distance from snout 



Greatest height 



Anal: 



Distance from snout 



Jloigbt at longest ray 



CaiKbll: 



Length of middle rays 



Pectoral: 



Distance from snout (below) 



Length 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Caudal 



Pectoral 



Milli- 

 meters. 



164 



150 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



100 



18 

 9 



15 



11 



5 



4 



3 



33. Cottunculus microps, CoUett. 



CoUnncnlus microps, Collktt, Tillhaegsli. til. Vidensk.-Selslc. Forli. Cliris- 

 tiania, 1884, p. 20, pi. 1, ligs. 1-3; Norges Fiske, 1875, p. 20, pi. i, figs. 1-3; 

 Fiskc Nordhaus-Expeditionens, 1878, p. 20; Meddelelser om Norges-Fiske 

 Aarena, 1575-78, 1879, p. 11. 



Specimens from the following localities have been obtained: 



Fathoms. 



No. 26087(1), station 880 252^ 



No. 2G167 (3), station 892 372 



station 894 365 



station 895 238 



No. 23176(3), station 895 238 



No. 26140(1), station 880 2.52^ 



The largest measures 205'"'", the smallest 25'"'". This species, never be- 

 fore found except on the Norwegian coast, was described from a specimen 

 measuring 15™'", dredged by Prof. G. O. Sars at Hasvig, near Hammer- 

 fest, in 200 fathoms, August, 1S74; another, 50'"'" long, near Trond- 

 hjemsf jord, in 1878, by Mr. Storm, at a depth of 180 fathoms; again, at 

 a depth of 191 fathoms, 18 miles northwest from Ilammerfest (72° 27' 

 N., 20° 51' \V.), in temperature 3o 5' C, and at a dei)th of 450 fiithoms; 

 15 miles westward of Northwestern Spitzbergen (7!)'^ 50' N., 5° 40' W.), 

 with temperature of 1° (). 



34. Cottunculus ton/us, new species, undescrilx-d. 



A smooth-skinned specdes of Cottunmdus was also obtained. This is 

 reserved for future discusion. 



