BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND. 27. AFD. IV. N:0 4. 15 



Here we have the averages; 



Thus we see, that both the two lines, in their resp. relations 

 to the total length of the body, are growing longer with the 

 increasing age, but the intermaxillary line in the highest 

 degree, and this without any apparent sexual difFerence. 



Now, if we divide the above-cited specimens in two groups, 

 the one with the palatine line longest, the other with this 

 line either as long as the intermaxillary or shorter, we have 

 the averao-es: 



and here also we see, that the character alleged to Lycodes 

 seminudus is bound with the younger specimens, while the 



