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LYCODIN.E. 



brown with a lio^lit spot on each side of the neck (sometimes a light stripe across 

 over the neck), and with 5 — 8 as a rule narrow whitish yellow cross-bands over the 

 trnnk and tail (sonretimes partl\- assuming a ring-form). The scales cover the whole 

 of the bod>- to in front of the dorsal fin and to the ventrals, and extend out on to the 

 unpaired fins. The lateral line is double, divided just beliind the root of the pectoral 

 into a mediolateral and a \-entral branch, both distinct. P\-loric appendages 2. Size 

 reaches to 325 mm. 



D. 100 — 103. A. 88— 92. P. 20 — 22(23). Vert. 106 (20 -|- 86). 



Distribution. Northerly West- and East-Greenland, ca. 150 — 400 fathoms; vSpitz- 

 bergen, 260 — 460 fathoms; west from Lofotens in Norway, 350 fathoms; off Norway- 

 Shetland Slope, 360 — 420 fathoms; north from the Faeroes, 470 fathoms; east from 

 Iceland, 300 — 340 fathoms. 



I have been obliged to found this new species for the 4 specimens brought home by the 

 Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition from Spitzbergen and from the seas off Lofoten, which Prof. 

 Collett after some reflection, considered were young specimens of L. esinarkii of Finmark, also for a 

 similar specimen (260 mm., long) taken by the Ingolf Expedition north-west from the Faeroes (figured 

 in fig. I a of Tab. III). In addition, there is a further specimen from Umanak in West Greenland, 

 referred formerly by Reinhardt sen. to the L. vahlii founded by him. Lastly, I have been able to 

 examine 4 specimens in the Stockholm Riks-Museum, taken in Franz Joseph's Fjord (northerly East 

 Greenland) by the Nathorst and Kolthoff Expeditions, and considered by Prof. F. A. Smitt as 

 < forms of L. vahlii^). 



As I shall now proceed to confirm the necessity of the resolved upon separation from L. esmarkti, 

 I may first of all set down the proportions of the 9 specimens.^) 



Total length in mm. 



Length of the head — 



Distance from snout to anus — 



Height over the anus — 



The form of tlie body is on the whole not unlike that of L. esinarkii, and the most important 

 proportions are somewhat similar; thus, the length of the head amounts to 21,9— 24,3° o, the distance 

 between the snout and the anus to 38,9 — 41,4 ° o of the total length. 



The fins on the other hand show in several wa\s, tolerablv great differences from those of 

 the foregoing species. Whilst the pectorals in L. esinarkii have 22 — 23 rays, the number in the present 

 species is mostly 21, more rarely 22, only in a single specimen and in one of its pectoral fins is the 



■I My original diagnosis (1. c.) has been changed somewhat out of regard for these 4 specimens (likewise also for the 

 still later obtained 17 specimens of the «Michael Bars Expeditions of 1900 and 1902 [cf. p. 36]). 



2) The West Greenland specimen is in a tolerably bad condition and will therefore be described by itself (p. 36). 



3) Collett has t6o, which must be a misprint. 



