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coucerniii}^' the fresh fish: ahiiost without colour, a Httle bUiish gray in tone; the top of the head 

 slightly reddish; the side of the trunk and Ijelh" (over the peritoneum) dark blue . 



An unpaired sexual organ is present. No pyloric appendages to be seen. 



Distribution. The single .specimen taken in 1896 by the Ingolf Expedition') was obtained 

 S.W". from Iceland, were the depth was 799 fathoms and the bottom-temperature 45 C. (St. 78). 



This new species does not seem to stand anyway near any of the other Lycodes; L.atlmiticus 

 mihi, to which one might be inclined to relegate it as the young, has a relatively greater head and 

 more numerous rays in the pectorals (23). 



Lycodes rossi Mahugren. 

 Tab. VII, Fig. i a, b, c, d, e, f, g. 



\'&2^.[t)B leiiniii s polaris Ross (vix Sabine) in Parry, Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, p. 200. 

 1864. Lycodes rossi Malnigren, Om Spetsbergens Fiskfaiina; Ofvers. Kgl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Forhandl., p. 516. 

 1880. L. rossi Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishes, p. 106. 

 1886. L. reticulatns Rhdt. (?) jun., Ltitken, Kara-Havets Fiske; Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske 



Udbytte, p. 136, Tab. XVH, Fig. 4—5. 

 1886. L. Liitkenii Liitken, ibid. p. 128 (partim). Tab. XVI, Fig. i (nee Fig. 2 -6). 

 1895. L. reticularis Smitt, Skandinaviens Fiskar, II, p. 612 (partim). Fig. 148. 

 1899. L. rossi Collett, Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. Chria., No. 6, p. 8 (cum fig.). 



igor. L. reticulatns Reinh. (?), Knipowitsch, Ann. Musee Zool. I'Acad. Imp. St. Petersbourg, T. VI, p. 25. 

 1901. L. reticulatns forma reticulata Smitt, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. 4, p. 33 



(partim). No. 23 8: 27. 

 1901. L.reticulatus forma seminuda Smitt, ibid. p. 32 (partim), No. 16. 

 1 901. L. celatus Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kbhvn., p. 208. 

 1901. Z. r(?5■j•^>■ Jensen, ibid. p. 213 (partim). 



()f the total length the height over the anus is (8,5) 9,4 — ii,7°o, the length of 

 the head 22,4 — 25,3 "o, the longitudinal diameter of the eye 3,6 — 4 ° «, the distance 

 between the snout and the anus 43,1 — 49,3°,o, the length of the pectorals 13, i — 13,6'Vo. 

 The voung have dark cross-bands on a light ground, the bands relati\'ely light in 

 the centre, but with a ver\- dark margin (on the dorsal fi n, blackish); a light band 

 across the neck. In larger indi\iduals the dark (6— 101 cross-bands on the side of 

 the bod\' are partl\' confluent below, so that the light interspaces partly show 

 as saddle-shaped markings from the free edge of the dorsal fin down towards 

 the lateral line; the light neck-band frequently divides up into several spots. The 

 scalv covering in the older individuals reaches forward to a point, which lies almost 

 under the beginning of the dorsal fin, and is wedge-shaped in front so that tiie 



') The specimen wa.s overlooked and not included in The Ichtliyological Results . 



