BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 24. AFD. IV. N:09. 15 
10 specimens: (in a less good state) King Charles Land: depth 100 m., clay 
with big stones; temperature — 1,45” C. >3/s 98. 
6 > King Charles Land, Bremer Sound between the islands: depth 
100 —110 m., fine clay with large stones: temperature: — 1,45” C. 
8/8 98. 
1 > ibidem; depth 60—70 m., fine blackish gray clay. 17/8 98. 
1 > Icefiord 7$S”22' N., 1453 E.: depth 40—50 m. 
The exterior appearance of all these specimens was very 
much alike. They are rather gelatinous looking with the 
skin soft and loose. The ground colour is light yellowish 
gray. All over the body are scattered small roundish dark 
chromatophors which give the grayish hue to the animal. 
These chromatophors are more numerous and dense on the 
head and anterior part of the back, so that these regions ob- 
tain a dusky colour. On the sides of the tail the chromato- 
phors form irregular spots which are partly more or less 
confluent so that they produce a marmorate appearance. On 
the dorsal and anal fins the confluence of the spots is, to a 
certain extent, more regular whereby transverse bars are 
formed, usually four or five on the former, three or four on 
the latter. NSometimes these bars can, more or less plainly, 
be traced across the body, but more often they have an 
alternating position. The half way translucent body allows 
the black peritoneum to shine through. The wide cesophagus 
is also blackish with sharply defined limits towards the sto- 
mach which looks quite light, although under the magnifying 
glass even on that organ blackish chromatophors can be de- 
tected. The situs viscerum is similar to that in the Cottoids 
and the intestine runs three times between the pyloric and 
the anal region. The stomach contained fragments of small 
crustaceans. 
The largest specimens measured 102 mm. 
The synonymy of the genus (Liparis or) Cyclogaster has 
been discussed by the most prominent Scandinavian ichthyo- 
logists CoLrLEtt, LILLJEBORG, LÖTKEN, MALMGREN and NSMITT 
and all these have agreed in uniting to one or two species 
the numerous varieties described by different authors with 
different names and which are grouped round the old Lin- 
nean C. liparis. These two species then ought to be named 
C. liparis and C. fabricii. But Smirt (1. ce.) regards the lat- 
ter only as a variety of the former. LÖTKEN thinks that 
