22 SMITT, ON THE GENUS LYCODES,, 



Remarks on the specimens in the tables of 

 measurements. 



Table i. 



N:o 1 and 2: Lycodes Verrillii, two males from the arctic sea east 

 off Greenland, 72 25' N. lat., 17° 56' W. long.; deptb 300 meters; 

 stone and sand; July 30, 1900, KOLTHOFF-expedition. Two lateral 

 lines, viz. a ventral and a median one, the latter with scattered 

 white pores, each with a longitudinal white streak from the front 

 and at the back. These pores as usually are smaller than the 

 white scales and most distinct in the dark (red-brown) patches 

 of the body; — cfr fig. 1. 



Table II. 



Lycodes Vahlii. 



1 — 11, forma gracilis. 



N:o Y. 1. Bahusia, Gullmar-firth, at Essvik, June 18, 1894, with 

 trawl. Compared with the N:o 27 below (the arctic form of 

 Lycodes Vahlii) this specimen is much more elongated. The 

 livery of fry bas its characteristic saddle-marks, red dorsal cross- 

 bands, edged by brown, divided by the ligther colour of the body. 

 The two foremost of the dark saddlemarks belong to the upper 

 side of the head, divided by a strait, light crossband över the 

 occiput, on a level with the bind preopercular margin. The 

 second light dorsal crossband is on a level with the bind opercular 

 margin. Then follow two dark saddle-marks, belonging to the abdomen 

 and distinguishing themselves by their cross-bands in the dorsal fin 

 more intensely dark than all the other marks. Behind these there 

 are 9 dark saddle-marks, which all would belong to the tail, if 

 not the anal opening (exceptionally?) were placed below the 

 midst of the first mark. The tip of the caudal fin is white. In 

 comparing this specimen with the corresponding figure in Collett 

 (Vid. Selsk. Skr., I, M. N. Kl. 1899, N:o 6, pl. I, fig. 1) one 

 will find the body more elongated and the anal opening otherwise 

 situated. 



Scattered scales on the sides of the body just in front of 

 the beginning of the anal fin. 



N:o V. 2. Bahusia, Gullmar-firth, biological station of Kristineberg, 

 1893. The livery of the fry is löst, except the two above-named 

 dark crossbands in the front part of the dorsal fin (now specks 

 as rests left of the abdorainal saddlemarks) and the confused rests 

 of the caudal saddle-marks, which give a black margin to the 



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