LYCODIN^. 



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275 fathoms, bottom-temperature -f 4^88 C, 2 specimens (371— 374mm): Channel between Shet- 

 land and the FcCroes (60° 19' X.L. 5"39' W.L.), depth 620 fathoms, bottom-temperature - o°i5 C, 

 I young specimen (188 mm.)'); east from the Fseroes (62° 26' N.L. 4"" 49' W.L.), depth 228 fathoms, 

 I specimen (552 mm.)^); between the Faeroes and Iceland (62° 59' N.L. 10° 37' W.L.), depth 251 

 fathoms, bottom-temperature — 3° 24 C, i specimen (521 mm.); east from Iceland (64'' 58' N.L. 11° 

 i2'\V.L.), depth 300 fathoms, bottom-temperature — ©"38 C, i specimen (383 mm.). 



Judging from these captures, /,. esinarkii. which was hitherto considered as a species occurring 

 locally at Finmark, has probably a continuous distribution over the deeper parts of the coastal plateau 

 of the Northern Ocean and its shelving sides ( slopes >), from Bear Island and Finmark down to Stat, 

 thence towards Shetland and the east banks of the F'aeroes, north of the Fgeroes and along the broad 

 ridge from the Freroe Isles to the Iceland plateau. Exceptiouall\-, it may venture over the sloping 

 banks of the ocean down into the polar depths. 



Again, it occurs on the east coast of North America, as Collett has identified 4 fully grown 

 specimens from off the coast of Nova Scotia 3). 



Lycodes eudipleurostictus Jensen. 



Tab. Ill, Fig. i a, b. 

 1878. Lycodes vahlii Collett, Fiske indsamlede under den nor.ske Nordhavs-Expeditions 2 forste Togter, 

 1876 eg 1877; Forh. Videusk. Selsk. Chria. 1878, No. 4, p. 11 ipartim). 



1878. L. vahlii Collett, F'iske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionens sidste Togt, Sonuneren 1878; Forh. Videusk. 

 Selsk. Chria. 1878, No. 14, p. 54 (partim). 



1879. ^- 'vnklii Collett, Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 1875 — 7^: Forh. \'idensk. Selsk. Chria. 

 1879, No. I, p. 62 (partim). 



1880. L. esmarkii QoW^tt^ The Norw. North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishes, p. 84 (partim), PI. II, Fig. 19—21. 

 1891. L.esmarkii Lilljeborg, Sveriges och Norges Fiskar, II, p. 6 (partim). 



1895. L.vahlii '$>\\\\X.'i^ Skandinaviens Fiskar, II, p. 613 (partim). 



1898. L. Esntarkii Liitken, The Danish Ingolf Expedition, II, i, p. 21. 



1901. L. esmarki Knipowitsch, Ann. Musee zool. I'Acad. Imp. St Petersbourg, T. \'I, p. 21. 



1901. L. Vahlii forma pallida Smitt, Bib. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. 4, p. 24 ( p a r t i m ), No. 13. 



1901. L. Vahlii typica Smitt, ibid. p. 26 (partim). No. 40, 41 & 42. 



1901. L. eudipleiirostictjts Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbh\-n. p. 206. 



The height over the anus amounts to 8,1 — i3,6°o. the length of the head to 

 19,8 — 24,3",, of the total length. The tail is distinctly longer than the head and 

 trunk together, as the distance between the snout and the anus is 36,7 — 4i,4°o of 

 the total length. The posterior margin of the pectoral is indented. Colouration 



M (Uintlier iChall. Hxped. Deep-Sea Fishes, 1S87, p. 77) also refers 2 specimens from the Fieroe Channel, 60S fathoms, 

 to this species, but they perhaps belong to L. eudipleurosticttts mihi which has been confused with L. esmarkii. 



^) This specimen was taken on a line, the other specimens in the English trawl. 



3) Goode and Bean refer also to this species a number of specimens, taken at 39° 43'— 42° 43' X.I.,, and 62° 20' — 

 71° 42' W.L.. 224—420 fathom.'; (Oceanic Ichthyology, 1895, p. 303), but one cannot tell if the determination is correct. 



The Ingoll-Expc'lition. II. +. 5 



