BIHANG TILL K. SV. YET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 24. AFD. IV. N:0 9. 21 
posterior dorsal spots. One spot is situated on the lateral 
line in the centre, between the two posterior dorsiventral 
pairs. Two more spots of the same size are situated in a 
line with the spots of the anterior dorsiventral pair, so that 
one lies between the dorsal spot of that pair and the lateral 
line, and the other between the ventral spot and the lateral 
line just behind the perivisceral cavity. Still another spot 
lies on the lateral line just between head and body. Such a 
regular disposition of the pigment is the more remarkable as 
the arrangement does not correspond with any anatomical 
details. 
14. Gadus saida LEPECHIN. 
1 specimen at the Charles the XII Island ?9/g 98. 
1 large specimen: King Charles Land, at the shore 13/8 98 (the 12/8 98 the 
temperature at the surface was found to be + 1,6” C.). 
At the latter locality the polar cod seems to be rather 
abundant, as Mr. G. KoLTHoFF tells me, and it is an im- 
portant article of food for the sea gulls of those parts. Mr. 
KortHoFF has also taken several more or less damaged spe- 
cimens out of the oesophagus of Larus tridactylus, eburneus 
ete. At the locality mentioned it was seen in large schools 
swimming near the surface and near the sbore, so that it 
was easily preyed upon by the seagulls. But at Spitzbergen 
it seemed to be less common, as it never was found in the 
numerous birds that were killed there either for food or for 
taxidermical purposes. It has, however, been observed and 
collected there several times by previous expeditions, as can 
be seen from MALMGREN's account (1. ce. p. 532—33). It has 
also been collected by KöKENTHAL at Spitzbergen.! It is 
possible that it had been driven away last summer (1898) 
from the West-coast of Spitzbergen by a branch of the Gulf 
stream which gave the water there a comparatively high 
temperature. The danish »Dijmphna» Expedition found it in 
the Kara Sea.? Its colour has been deseribed by Mr. HoLm 
who accompanied the expedition as follows: »Back gray, 
with darker transverse blotches, belly silvery with dark 
violet spots.,. The specimens I have before me are nearly 
1 Zool. Jahrb. Syst. VIII p. 91. 
? Dijmphna-Togtets Zool. bot. Udbytte p. 127. 
