4 LÖNNBERG, FISHES FROM SPITZBERGEN AND KING CHARLES LAND. 
1. Cottunculus mierops CoLLETTt. 
1 specimen: between Beeren Eiland and Norway 73'3' N., 18'30' E.; depth: 
410 met., gray clay; temperature at the bottom +?” OC. $/e 98. 
The only specimen of this rare fish was thus obtained 
within the limits of its known distribution, which extends 
from East Greenland 65” 30' N.! to Spitzbergen (Norwegian 
Islands) and south to New England, the Fzeroe Channel and 
the Trondhjem ford. 
2. Gymmnocanthus ventralis (Cuv. & VaL.). 
5 specimens: Beeren Eiland 74” 21 N., 191 E.; depth 14—18 m., rocky 
bottom with alge, gravel and sand, temperature +1,5”. 17/6 98. 
138 small specimens: Recherche Bay. 5/7 98. 
10 specimens (9 small): Advent Bay. ??/7 98. 
3 specimens: Harbour of »>Virgo» (Danes Gat.) 79.58' N., P30' E. ?7/& 98. 
The specimens from Recherche Bay and Advent Bay were 
caught with a seine; the 3 specimens from the »Harbour of 
Virgo» were caught with hook and line with gammarids used 
for bait. These three specimens, as well as one from Advent 
Bay, were adult, the remainder included only young indivi- 
duals measuring from 35 to 50 mm. The smallest were those 
collected at Beeren Eiland in June. I suppose that these small 
ones must be regarded as yearlings. The four larger ones 
have already reached sexual maturity. They were all of them 
females. The largest female had in its left ovary eggs mea- 
suring nearly 2 mm. in diameter which seemed fully deve- 
loped, but the right contained no eggs and was empty except 
for a blackish mass which might be the residue of spoiled 
eggs. From this I conclude that this specimen has been sub- 
ject to some sickness which has affected the ovaries and has- 
tened the development of the eggs. This becomes still more 
evident by the fact that in the two other females caught 
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