38 LYCODIN.E. 



Distribution. 

 In Europe, L. eiidipleitrostictits has been caiight at several places in the cold area^:, and extends 

 from thence over to the east coast of Greenland and probably north of that land, as well as a stretch 

 along the west coast, as a specimen has been taken there at Umanak (70° 40' N.L.). At East Green- 

 land it has been taken in Franz Josephs Fjord, e. g. 2 specimens at 760 meters by the Xathorst 

 Expedition of 1899, and 2 specimens at 200 — 300 meters by the Kolthoff Expedition of 1900. At Spitz- 

 bergen, the Norwegian North -Atlantic Expedition took 3 specimens at depths of 459 and 260 fathoms, 

 bottom-temperature — i" C. and ->- i^i C.'); a Russian Expedition in 1899, one specimen, where the depth 

 was 497 meters and bottom-temperature — o'^9 C.^). The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition took one 

 specimen off Helgeland in Norway where the depth was 350 fathoms, and bottom-temperature — o°g C. 

 Again, the Ingolf Expedition caught a specimen NAV. from the Faeroes (St. 138) where the depth was 

 471 fathoms and bottom-temperature — o°6 C. Lastly, the steamer Michael Sars: obtained it at the 

 following places in 1902: off the Norway-Shetland ^ Slope? (62° 43' N.L. i°26'E.L.), depth 420 

 fathoms, bottom-temperature under 0° C. (2 sp)ecimens) and {bz" 40' N.L. 1° 56' E.L.), depth 360 fathoms, 

 bottom-temperature — o°3 C. (2 specimens); east from Iceland (64" 58' N.L. 11'' 12' W.L.), depth 300 

 fathoms, bottom-temperature — o°38 C. (12 specimens); and in 1900: east from Iceland, depth 340 fathoms, 

 bottom-temperature — o"69 C. (i specimen). 



Lycodes pallidus Collett. 



Tab. I\'. Fig. i a, b, c, d, e. 



1878. Lycodes pa Hi diis Collett, Fiske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionens sidste Togt, Sonmieren 1878; Forh. 



Vidensk. vSelsk. Chria. 1878, Nr. 14, p. 70. 

 1880. L. pallidus Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishes, p. no, PL III, Fig. 26— 27. 

 1886. L. pallidus Lutken, Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udb\tte, p. 134, Tab. X\'II, Fig. i — 3. 

 1898. L. pallidus Lutken, The Danish Ingolf-Expedition, II, i, p. 22 ( parti m). 

 1901. L. pallidus Knipowitsch, Zool. Ergebn. d. Russ. Exped. nach Spitzbergen, Fische; Ann. Musee Zool. 



de I'Acad. Imp. d. Sci., St. Petersbourg, T. \'I, 1901, p. 23. 

 1901. L. vaJilii forma pallida Smitt, Bihang. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. V\ , No. 4, p. 24 (par- 



tim). No. 12 & 14 — 26. 

 1901. L.vahlii forma typica Smitt, ibid. p. 26 (partim), No. 30 — 39. 

 1901. L.reticulatiis ionwa fn'gida Smitt, ibid. p. 29 (partim), No. 2— 9. 



In proportions of the total length the height over the anus is 83)— 10,6° o, the 

 length of the head 20,7 — 25,3% (in females 20,9 — 23,8 °o, in males 2 2 — 25,3 °o), the 

 distance between the snout and the anus 38 — 44,7%, the longitudinal diameter of the 

 eye 3,1 — 4,5%. The young and smaller individuals are coloured on the back and 



') The station lies however just ou tlie boundaries of the -cold area». 



2) From the report, which Prof. N. Knipowitsch has given (1. c.i of this but 87,5 mm. long specimen, it is clearlj- 

 seen that it belongs to the same species as Colletfs <^L. estitarkii yi\. , or — in other words — that it is a L. eudipleurosHctus. 



3) In weakl}- young specimens sometimes sinking to 7,3 °o. 



