616 



SCANDINAVIAN FISIIKS. 



is o mm. long (flee])) and 2 mm. Ki-oad, one Dt'lhc st-iles 



of the lower lateral line 2' ., mm. <lee|) and '2 mm. hroad. 



The internal oi'gans, wliirli ai-c described at 



lenifth 1)V KioiNiiAUDT, rcsemlile those of tiie Kel- 



skin that cf)vers tiiem. Such is tlie a])])earance of tiie 

 Hsh, accoi'diiig to ("oi.lktt, until it attains a length of 

 about 4 dm. The l)]ack ground-colour now liegins to 

 I'licrijacli upon the trans\crse l)auds of whitish yellow, 



pout in all essential respects, only that liere the stomach which are thus broken up, on the dorsal tin into narrow 

 is somewhat longer. The peritoneum, as well as the ] stripes, on the back into confluent, ocellated spots, and 

 pharynx and palate, is black, in the ])i-eceding species j often joined in pairs in tiieir lower parts .so as to form 



it is white. Tiie abdominal cavity occupies ' -, of the 

 length of the li(xly, and the length of the intestine is 

 Vs of the latter, 'i'lie pyloric ajipcndagcs of this spe- 

 cies are very rudimentar\'. in the |irccediug species 

 they are about as large as in tiie Eelp(nit. The testes, 



garland-like tigui'es. In the same way the occipital spots 

 ma.}' be gatiiered into a tran.sverse band bet\veen the 

 gill-openings. J^i/rodcfi VahJii, it is said, may tinalh' 

 assume an almost plain, brownish black tint. 



EsMAKKs Li/rnrles seems to be fairlv common in the 



are, as usual, two, but the ovjiry is sim])le. In adult \ deep water off the extreme north of Norway, where its 



females the ripe eggs are as large as those of the Sal- I presence was first discovered in 1864 by Esmark. Col- 



mon, according to Collett, or about (i mm. in diameter, letf enumerates 22 large s|>ecimens, between 58 and 



but comparatively few in number, "hardly more tlian 70' , cm. long, as having lieeu taken in recent times, 



1,200 in each individual." The spawning-season occurs, principally during the years 1881 — 83, in most cases 



according to the same wi-iter, probal)ly during tiie first ' on long-lines in Varanger Fjord and at depths of about 



months of spring. In the intestine Keinuaudt found ' 100 — 2.50 fathoms. The species has also been found by 



entire shells of digested mussels, Collett crushed sea- the Norwegian Arctic l']xpedition in 260 — 459 fathoms 



urchins, starfish, and sea-anemones, as well as frag- ! (jf water, west of tlie nortlu'i'u part of Spitzbergen, and 



ments of worms and crustaceans. at a depth of .j.'jO fathoms off Bodo. GrxinEH states 



When this species has passed through the early sta- i that it lias lieen met ^vith in Faroe Channel; and the 



ges of growth, it is of a dee]) brownish black, with from i small specimen from Drobaksund in Christiania Fjord, 



5 to 8 whitish yellow, transverse bands across the dorsal that was taken in 1866 l)y M. Sars in 50 or 60 fatlionis 



fin and down the sides, the posterior bands extending j of water, in all probability belongs to this species. 



farthest do'wn, and the hindmost ones of all advancing 

 even over the anal fiiL Two spots of the same light 

 colour as the transvei'se liands are .set beside each other 

 on the occiput, just as in th(> preceding species. The 

 head is grayish brown, with the opercular flaj) sha-diug 

 into black. The white scales shine through the thin 



Brown-Goode and Bean liave descril)ed it from La 

 Have Bank (42° 43' N. iat.) and the Grand Banks on 

 the east coast of North America. Keinhakdt's tA'pe- 

 specimens were from Greerdand. It is tlius an Arctic 

 deep-sea fish with a fairh' extensive range to the 

 south. 



LYCODES SARSII. 

 Fig. 151. 



Coloration grayish Jiroint, irith rrf/iihir, hroiDiish hhtd;. frdiisrcrse sjwfs on flie hark (did the upper half of the sidef 

 and also lower doivn on the hind part of the tail. A hiarkish hroiri/, loi/(/ifi(diii(d baitd fonrord along the snnnt 

 from each of the eyes. Scales scattered, and e.rfending from the dcciput along the dorsal side to the hegimiing of 

 the last third of the tail. Depth of the body of the hegimiing of the anal fn uhoai (> or 7 % of its oini length. 

 Tip of the tail blunt. Length of the head more than ^2 % (^-5 — 2i') ">>) of the length of the fail from the 

 heqinmnq of the anal fin to the tip of flic last fin raip^ 



Fig. 1.51. Li/codi's ■Sar.iii, t 

 200 ftliiiis 



ti u t nl s 7e T 1 en ofE Be 

 lie 1 J (t O Sar 11 1 r 1 



R. br. 5; /'. 15— 1(5; V. •> (V). 

 St/H. Lycodes ^arsii. Coll., Forh. Vid. Selsk. ChrisL 1871, p. 62; ibid. 

 1874, Tilljegsli., p. 102; i\. Nordli. Kxped., Zool., Fishe, p. 



I Ironlli Fjo d n tl t ilst f August, 1882, in betweci. 80 aiiH 

 f 11 Z 1 g cnl \1 sein f CI iibtiania University. 



117; N. Mag. Naturv. Christ., Bd. 29 (1884), p. 78, tub. I, figg. 

 3—4; Lh.u., Sl'.. Nunj. F/.-7i.. vol. II, p. 23; GTm. Deep 

 Sea Fuh., Cliall. Exped., part. LVII. (Zool., vol. XXII), p. 80. 



