(512 



SCA Nl )IX A \IA\ FISI I KS. 



Lijcodes semintidus, RiinT, 1. c, p. 223; I/rKX. ViJ. Meddel., 

 1. c, p. 325: Coll.. X. yorclh. Krj.ed.. Zoal., FiHe. p. 

 113, tab. IV, fig. 2«. 



LycodeK perspicilbim, Kn.. Overs. \"\A. Selsk. Forli. Klilivn 

 1844, y. 140; Vui/. Scatid., Iaij>. t-ett. (Gaim.) tab. 7: 

 Naturli. Tidskr. Kbhvn. ser. Ill, vol. I. p. 289. 



Lycodes miicosus, Richards., LaH, Arc!.. Voy. (Belcher), v(d. 2, 

 p. 362, tab. XXVI; Bkan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu?., vol. I, 

 p. 465 (c/'?); Id., Bull. U. 8. Nat. Miis., No. 15, p. 112; 

 Smitt, Gt. Intern. Fisb. Exbib. London, 1883. Swed. C.ital., 

 p. 17fi. 



Lycodes Roxsi. Morn, Ufvers. Vet. Akiul. Fiirh. 1K(;4. p. 51 C. 



liy llic Iviii.iilii Ij-iviiit i;x|i((litinii ;it ;i dejitli of (IdS 

 t';ithoius ill Farof Cliaimel; and as the other finds extend 

 all round the world in the extreme nortii. it is (luiic 



Fig. 148. 

 in 18G1, 



Lye 

 , Tn 



dcf rcliadatni:, Rossii. twire tlie natnral size. Taken 

 iiroidierg Bay, Spitzberffen, at a depth of 5 fatlioms. 



Lycodei, Turm-n. Bka.n, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. I, p. 463 j pi-yij^bJe that some similar find may once he made in 

 ($?); ibid., vol. IV, p. 244 (Turnerit); Turner, Contrib. \ .. ,. . „,, . " 



111^. I Scandinavian waters. Ihe species seems to he capable 



of ascending fairly high towards the coast, for the Swed- 



.V«/. ///,«/. Alaska. 

 No. 11. p. i)3. tab. 



Ser. Publ. Sign. Serv. U 



Fig. 147. Li/codes vrticidatiiK. Tnriicvri. 



[if tlie natural size. From the enlraiice of Cliafanga Bay (lat. 

 24th Aug., 1878: Vega Expedition. 



long. 113 :iO' E. Gr.), 



Lycodes Liitkemi, Coll., N. Nordh. Kxped., Fi.olce, v. 103, 



tab. Ill, fig. 25; Ltkn, Dijmpb.-Togt. Zool. Bet, Udb.. p. 



128, tab. XVI. 

 ? Lycodes pallidus. Ltkx, 1. c., y. 134, tab. XVII. figg. 1—3 



(nee Coll.). 

 ? Lycodes coccineus. Bean, Proe. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 4, p. 



144 (= L. scmhmdtis). 



From different regions in all parts of the Ai-ctic Ocean 

 a number of more or less diverging forms of this species 

 have been desci-ibed under different .specific names. On 

 the grounds already given, and if we take into account 

 the grent variations to wliich the luajoritA' <»f lhc specific 

 chai'acters hitherto adopfi'd iiri' demonstrabh- subject, 

 these fiirins may well lie cuniprised within one species, 

 even if it sliould prove in the future that some one 

 or other of them be constiint. Acctirdiug tn (iiN'riiEK 

 {Deep Sea Fishes, 1. c), one of these forms was found 



ish Spitzbergen I'xpedition of ISfi] took a young 

 specimen 33 mm. long in .3 fathoms of water in Treu- 

 renberg Bay, and the Vega Expedition found their 

 specimen on a liottom of claj' mixed with stones, at a 

 dejrth of 1.") fathoiiLS in Chatanga Bay, where the bottoni- 

 tempernture, however, was — 0"8° Cels. (3(l'.T° Fahr.). 

 The numei-ous s]iecimens found by the Dijmphna Ex- 

 pedition in Kara Sea were taken at depths of 4(! — l()(i 

 fathoms. (_)ne of the two specimens which Kkover re- 

 ceived from (Greenland, and which wei'e taken with a 

 dredge by Captain Hobisoi.i,, was 1)7 nun. long nnd was 

 caught in 9(1 fatlioms of water, the other 40 mm. long 

 and caught in 3(i fathoms of water. Of the older spe- 

 cimens which ha\c come into the possession of Copen- 

 hagen Museum at different jteriods since the time of 

 liEiNHAHDr. KiaivE!! writes: "They are generally found 



