12 LÖNNBERG, FISHES FROM SPITZBERGEN AND KING CHARLES LAND. 
condition. Its total length is 35 mm., that of the two smallest 
is resp. 67 mm. and 58 mm. "The length of the head in the 
largest specimen was small, not measuring more than 25,2 24 
of the total length; in the smallest it was 28,2 4. NSMITT 
found this percentage to be about 27 2 as well in large as 
in small specimens, but in three specimens measured by Cor- 
LETT (with a total length of resp. 70, 90 and 108 mm.) the 
same percentage was resp. 28,5, 25,5 and 26,8 2». This cha- 
racter is thus subject to a considerable variation. The length 
of the base of the anal fin is, in the largest specimen from 
this expedition, only 29,4 2 of the total length, but in one of 
the smallest, measuring 67 mm., it is 33,5 2 and in the smallest 
it is 31,0 2. The anal fin of the largest measures 87,5 2 of 
the length of the base of the second dorsal fin which is 32,9 4 
of the total length. These two vertical fins are, as it seems, 
unusually short in this specimen; the second dorsal fin, for 
instance, only counts 22 rays. Lack of material does not ad- 
mit further comparison, but the variability is shown already 
by these facts mentioned. 
The ventriele in one of the specimens was filled with 
small crustaceans. The number of appendices pyloricee is 6. 
Triglops pingelit 18 arctic and circumpolar, and has been 
collected also at Spitzbergen a few times. At the northwest- 
coast it was found in Magdalene Bay by the Norwegian 
North Atlantic expedition, but this is the first time it is re- 
corded from the northern coast of Spitzbergen. 
6. Cottus scorpius LINNZUS. 
7 specimens: Advent Bay. ?2/7 98. 
2 > Recherche Bay. !3/7 98. 
This species was only collected at two localities and in 
both cases obtained by seining. The stomachs of dissected 
specimens were distended by various crustaceans (Crangon 
boreas, large Gammarids etc.) and fishes, in one case 2 Lum- 
penus and SENOR än 
As LÖTKEEN (1. c. p. 373) has observed to be the case in 
the arctic form of fe species for which he uses the name 
»var. grönlandica», the testes are milky white as in specimens 
from Greenland, not pigmented as in Scandinavian specimens. 
