24 SMITT, ON THE GENUS LYCODES. 



N:o V. 11. Same locality as N:o V. 5. Påle grey-red. 9 caudal 

 saddle-marks (10, if the dark tip of the caudal fin be couiited) 

 rests from the fry-livery conspicuous enough, but narrow, a little 

 enlarged below, with the centre of this part lighter. Vertical 

 fins for the most part blue-grey. Belly (for the translucent peri- 

 tioneal membrane) livid. Pectorals light-edged. 



12 — 26, forma pallida. 



N:o V. 12. Greenland, Mackenzie-bay, N. of Franz-Joseph-firth, August 

 1 — 3, 1900; depth 12 — 35 m.; mud-bottom; KOLTHOFF-expedition. 

 White, with grey, brown-edged tigures. Caudal crossmarks 

 9, viz. 2 saddle-marks and 7 crossbands, the latter narrower than 

 the wbite interspaces, the hindmost placed on the tip of the 

 caudal fin. Back part of the anal fin brown-edged. Belly livid. 

 Anal opening surrounded by white, placed below the interspace 

 between the second abdominal and the first caudal saddle-mark. 

 Scaly covering reaching from a little behind the beginning of the 

 anal fin to the bind tip of the body. 



N:o V. 13. Greenland, Franz-Joseph-firth; 73" 15' n; 25M2'w. ; depth 

 760 m.; mud bottom with sand, gravel and stones; August 14, 

 1899; NATHORST-expedition. 



ColOTir reddish dark, compare fig. 19 in COLLETT, 1. c. 

 (young Lycodes Esmarkii). Head and belly livid. Saddle-marks 

 (some of them probably a result of fusing together, two and two) 

 transformed to broad crossbands, 7 behind the head, divided by 

 six rather narrow white interspaces. Tail-fin white. Anal opening 

 below the midst of the second dark crossband. Besides to be 

 compared with N:o V. 29 below. Scales well developed on tail 

 and abdomen, both above and below the middle line of the sides of 

 the body, but head and belly naked. On the crown of the head 

 a large fontanelle, through which whole the brain may be seen. 



N:o V. 14. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



. Colour light, with livid belly. Caudal crossmarks 9, the 

 first four not descending över the anal fin, the fifth just doing 

 so, the sixth and seventh crossing it completely, the eight also 

 but having löst its hind margin, the ninth forming a crossband 

 on the base of the caudal fin, whose tip is uncoloured. The 

 white anal opening below the midst of the first caudal saddle- 

 mark. No scales, but marks of a median as well as a ventral 

 lateral line. 



N:o V. 15. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Colour intermediate between the ligth (N:os V. 12 and V. 14) 

 and dark (N:o V. 13) varieties. Caudal crossmarks (resp. saddle- 

 marks and crossbands) 7, the two first not descending to the anal 

 fin, the third just doing so, the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh in the 

 anal fin conjoinded to a black, narrowly white-edged band, leaving 

 the tip of the caudal fin as well as the hindmost part of the 

 dorsal fin white. Anal opening below the interspace between the 



