BIHAXG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 4. 23 



hind parts resp. of the dorsal and anal fins. No dark spöts on 

 the sides of the body. Anal opening placed below the second 

 dark spöt of the dorsal fin. Scales on the body well developed; 

 only the head with nape and the livid belly without scales. 



N:o V. 3. Same locality as N:o V. 1. Påle red, paler than the pre- 

 ceding specinien, the marks of the fry-livery resting very faint, 

 as f. i. a light crossband on the nape and some pigment in the 

 hindmost part of the vertical fins. Scaly covering as in the 

 preceding specimen. Belly light. Hind margin of the pectorals, 

 as usually in Lycodes Vahlii, incised, the 7th and 8th rays 

 (counted from below) being almost like to each other and to the 

 6th but shorter than the 9th. 



N:o V. 4. Locality, colour and scaly covering as in the preceding 

 specimen. Pectorals scarcely incised. 



X:o V. 5. Bahusia, Essvik, at the end of August 1900, with trawl. 

 Colour as in Collett, 1. c, fig. 6, with a line of dark spöts in 

 the middle of the sides of the body. 



X:o V. 6. Same locality as N:o V. 1. Colour as in Collett, 1. c, 

 fig. 9, without dark spöts on the sides of the body. 



N:o V. 7. Same locality as N:o V. 5. Marks from the fry-livery 

 rather conspicuous. Anal opening below the interspace between 

 the second dark spöt in the dorsal fin and the first dark caudal 

 saddle-mark. 8 such marks on the tail (the 9th forming a spöt 

 on the tip of the caudal fin), the two first ending below just 

 under the midst of the sides of the body but there combined 

 through a network of irregular dark (brown) streaks, the other 

 saddle-marks less or more completely extended on the anal fin. 

 A row of six dark (brown) spöts in the middle line of the sides 

 of the body, each spöt more or less regularly placed in the lower 

 parts resp. of the abdominal and the foremost caudal dark saddle- 

 marks. Incision in the pectorals rather inconspicuous. 



N:o V. 8. Bahusia, Börsås, 1889, Dr Carl Aurivillius. Påle red; 

 fry-livery vanished. Spöts in the front part of the dorsal fin 

 rather inconspicuous. Other fry-marks visible only as forming 

 a dark shading in the margin and hind parts resp. of the dorsal 

 and anal fin. No spöts on the sides of the body. Specimen 

 crooked, measurements thus rather uncertain. 



X:o V. 9. Bahusia, Firth of Saltkälla, August 1894, Aurivillius. 

 Specimen crooked, with the mouth and branchial apparatus in 

 the highest degree expanded; measurements thus uncertain. Colour 

 påle red, still lighter (yellowich white) on the ventral side. No 

 spöts in the front part of the dorsal fin. Irregular thin spöts 

 on the sides of the body. 



N:o V. 10. Same locality as N:o V. 5. Påle red, light yellow below, 

 with the median line of the belly livid. Only one dark spöt in 

 the front part of the dorsal fin, but faint rests of the caudal 

 saddle-marks. An irregular, dark, longitudinal band in the midst 

 of the sides of the abdomen. Dark spöt on the opercle. Anal 

 opening surrounded by yellowish white. 



