20 LÖNNBERG, FISHES FROM SPITZBERGEN AND KING CHARLES LAND. 
least the young specimens live in shallow water is proved 
by the material which has kindly been lent to me from the 
Zoological State-Museum in Stockholm. Only one is taken at 
a depth of 60 fathoms off Grey Hook, Spitzbergen, and one 
is from a depth of 38 fathoms, Fassinssak, N. of Upernivik, 
Greenland, 2 are from a depth of 20 fathoms, Magdalene Bay, 
Spitzbergen, 1 from 12 fathoms, Amsterdam Island, Spitz- 
"bergen, 1 from 10 fathoms, Norwegian Islands, 1 from 1—10 
fathoms, Smeerenberg Bay, and 1 from 2!/2 fathoms, Nor- 
wegian Islands, Spitzbergen. 
CoLLETT has made it seem probable that this species is 
circumpolar, and the localities on which this expedition found 
it lie within the limits of its known distribution. 
13. Drepanopsetta platessoides (FABRICIUS). 
1 specimen: S. from King Charles Land, lat. 77” 85 N., 27 30' E.; depth: 160 
fathoms, yellowish brown clay; temperature — 1,7” 0. ?3/& 98. 
4 > off the Ice-Islands (W. Spitzbergen), 77 9 N., 14£40' E.; depth 
90 m., fine gray clay. ?7/&6 98: 
1 > NE. from the Seven Islands, 81 14' N., 2250' E.: depth 150 m., 
gray clay; temperature + 2 C. ?9/g 98. 
Hitherto this flounder was known from the western and 
northern coasts of Spitzbergen. By the above noted collec- 
tion from three different localities, the limits of its known 
distribution is extended a good deal towards east and north, 
and it can be regarded as the most arctic flounder. 
It would have been very interesting to make a compari- 
son and see whether these specimens from Spitzbergen are 
intermediate between the American and European form of 
this species or not, but as all six mentioned above are small, 
only yearlings, it can hardly be done with satisfactory result. 
The largest measures only about 5 cm. 
The colour of all six is remarkably alike. They are 
rather light grayish yellow, finely mottled with brown. But 
the pigment is also collected in some places, so that it forms 
roundish spots of the same size as the pupil or a little larger. 
The arrangement of these spots is also quite the same in all 
specimens. Four are found on the dorsal margin along the 
base of the dorsal fin and three in the same way on the 
ventral margin of the body and corresponding to the three 
