LYCODIN^. 65 



ledge gained in the interval has brought me however to the position that Collett was probably 

 right, and m that case the synon>nn-Ust for /.. refuu/af^,s must be augmented b>- the following names: 



1844. Lycodcs perspicillum Kroner, Overs. Kgl. D. Vidensk. Selsk. Forh. p. 140. 



[^^^^).L.perspicmum Kroyer, in Gaimard: Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie etc., Zoologie, 



Poissons, PI. 7. 

 1862. L. perspicillum Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidsskr. 3. R., i. B., p. 289. 

 1880. L. perspicillum Liitken, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn. p. 321. 

 1898. L. perspicillum Uitken, The Danish Ingolf Expedition, II, i, p. 22, Tab. IV. Fig. 5- 

 1899 L.Uitkenii Hohnquist (nee Collett), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hi.story (7), vol.3, p. 221 (partim). 

 1901. Z. reticulatus fornua fn■g^da Snutt, Bih. K. Sv. Vet-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. 4, P- 29 



(partim). No. i. 

 1901. L. perspicillum Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn., p. 213. 



This form is known by 3 specimens from West Greenland. One of these is the 65 mm. 

 lono- specimen.) described in detail by Kroyer and figured in Gaimard's Voyages (PI. 7, Kg- A^). 

 A s^'econd specimen, 43 """• long, was taken by the Ingolf Expedition of 1895 off Sukkertoppen (63° 

 24' NL) at 68 fathoms depth; the figure cited, painted from the living fish, gives an idea of its 

 appearance. Lastlv, Dr. A. Ohlin who was with the Peary Auxiliary Expedition as Zoologist, also 

 obtained a 43 mm. long specimen in Murchison Sound (between 77-78^ N.L.) at 45 fathoms depth; it 

 is the one of the two specimens which Hohnquist (1. c.) has determined as L. liitkenii Coll.; F. A. 

 Smitt has later referred it to .L. reticulatus forma frigida ; of the incorrectness of both determinations 

 I have been able to convince myself by an examination of the specimen itself, which is preserved m 

 the Riks-Museum at vStockholm. 



The most important proportions of these 3 specimenss) are as follows: 



Total length ... 

 Length of the head 

 Distance from snout to anus 

 Height over the anus 



43 I 43 65 



10 10 15 



iS,75 18,75 2S 

 4,25 4.5 6-; 



The leno-th of the head is therefore 23,1-23,3% the distance between the snout and the anus 

 43-43,6o„, the height over the anus 10-10,5-0 of the total length. It is clear therefore, that these 

 young forms are relativelv long-tailed in comparison with the adult L. reticulatus. but this is no 

 absolute objection to their being referred to the named species, because in other Lycodes I have 

 observed an approximately similar disagreement between the young and adult individuals (cf. e. g. i.. 

 rossi, p. 57)- 



M Kroyer mentions and f,gures ,1>1. 7, H.'- «) stiU another specin.en, ca. 40 n„n. long, but that has been disposed of 

 long since successful, showing amongst other things not the slightest trace of scales. 



L ri~. fi»d U ,„ o J.*cU»: Co,,c™Sg a,e oU..r .L. p^.„.«,u„l. .»« K.,. Se. ...„U...d „ .he ,^ pl.c 



see L. rossi Malnigr. (p. 56). 



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