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as dark cross-slripes. Tlie tail has only 5 dark bands. None of the bands show, as in the youno-er 

 stage, an>- sharp bonndaries below, as the .^;ronnd colour has here become dark, l)ut the\- stand out 

 clearly against the yellow-white colour of the back and dorsal fin. The neck-band is more strongly deve- 

 loped than in the \ ounger individual and extends from gill-cover to gill-cover as a narrow, light band. 

 The number of ra\s in the fins is in tolerably close agreement with that in the younger 

 specimen, namely 94 in the dorsal fin, 75 in the anal and 21 in the pectoral. 



Fi.?- M- Lycodds scniinudus Reiiih. (5). x i. S. from Jan JIayen. 371 fathoms. Ingolf Expedition 1S96. 



Lastly, amongst the specimens from the Kara Sea labelled by Liitken L. pa I lid us, I have 

 found a \oung Lycodes which undoubtedly belongs to the species L. semmiidiis ; this specimen is not 

 named with the other L. pallidns in Lit t ken's report on the fishes of the Dijmphna Expedition, so 

 that L. lias probably regarded the determination as less certain. 



Its proportions are as follows: 



Total length 87 mm. 



Length of the head 22,5 — 



Distance from snout to anus 40 — 



Height over the anus 8 — 



The length of the head is thus 25,9 " ,„ the distance between the .snout and the anus 46"/o, 

 the height over the anus 9,2 ■' o of the total length, which numbers fall within those found in L. seini- 

 uudits. Just as certain a mark of recognition lies in the small pectorals who.se length is onlv 

 10,3 "^o of the total length; the>- contain 19 ra\s. 



Although the specimen is somewhat bleached, one can readily see that the colouration in the 

 main has been the same as in the smaller specimen just described, namelv 8 broad, dark and dark- 

 bordered cross-bands, 2 on the bod\- and 6 on the tail, in addition a dark spot at the end of the 

 caudal fin; on the neck one can detect signs of a light cross-band. Scales have begun to appear on 

 the tail, at some distance behind the anus. 



It was taken by the Dijmphna Expedition in the Kara Sea at 92 fathoms depth. 



Distribution. 



A .specimen was taken at West Greenland at each of the following localities: Godthaab, 

 Jakobshavn, Karajak Fjord (in the innermost part of Umanak Fjord, 200 meters depth) and Umanak, 

 also 4 specimens at I'pernivik. At East Greenland the Nathorst Expedition of 1899 took a 

 .specimen as far up as 74 52' N.L. 17' 16' W.L. (S. from Shannon Lslandi, 350 meters, and 2 specimens in 



