BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. APD. IV. N:0 4. 25 



second abdominal and the lirst caudal saddle-mark, which marks 

 however are partially united below (in the middle of the height 

 of the body) by a streak of dark pigment. Belly livid. The 

 nuchal light crossband abrupt in the middle of the neck. Iris 

 silvery in front and behind. Scales on the dorsal (none on the 

 ventral) part of the sides of the body from a little behind the 

 base of the pectorals to the back margin of the third caudal 

 saddle-mark. Median lateral line rudimentary, ventral line more 

 conspicuous. Back margin of pectorals a little incised, the 7th 

 — 9th rays (from below) scarcely longer than the 6th. 



N:o V. 16. Greenland, Franz- Joseph-tirth, at the bottora of Musk-ox- 

 bay; depth 100 m.; clay-bottom; August 17, 1900; KOLTHOFF- 

 expedition. 



Specimen crooked, with the mouth and gill-apparatus in 

 the highest degree expanded; measurements thus uncertain. Colour 

 and scales as in the preceding N:o but the nuchal light cross- 

 band continuous. 



N;o V. 17. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Colour almost the same as in N:o V. 14. Scales as in the 

 preceding N:o (V. 16). 



N:o V. 18. Same locality as N:o V. 12. Specimen crooked etc. as 

 N:o V. 16. 



Colour of the body påle. Caudal crossmarks (probably through 

 confluence) reduced to 6. Tip of caudal fin white. Belly livid. 

 Scaly covering as in the preceding, a little more extended below 

 in front. 



N:o V. 19. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Colour påle. Caudal crossmarks 7 (or 8, if the black tip 

 of the caudal fin be counted). Scales as in the preceding. A 

 rudimentary median lateral line. 



X:o V. 20. Same locality as N:o V. 12. Colour as in the preceding, 

 but tip of caudal fin white. Scales as in the preceding. Back 

 margin of pectoral fins feebly incised. 



N:o V. 21, Greenland, off Mackenzie-bay, N. of Franz-Joseph-firth ; 

 depth 100 m.; mud-bottom, August 24, 1900; KOLTHOFF-expedition. 

 Specimen in the same bad condition as N:o V. 18. Caudal 

 crossmarks 6 (7, if the black tip of the caudal fin be counted). 

 Scaly covering extended below the middle line of the sides of 

 the tail and abdomen. The naked belly blue in its middle line 

 and higher up on the sides, but there-between white. 



N:o V. 22. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Colour as in the preceding, moreover resembling the figs. 

 5 and 6 in Collett, 1. c. {Lycodes gracilis). Opercular spöt 

 conspicuous but ill defined. Caudal crossmarks 6, besides a black- 

 brown spöt on the caudal tip of the body. Scales as in the 

 preceding. The naked belly livid. 



N:o V. 23. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Colour almost completely as in the preceding, but still paler. 

 Scales below the middle line of the sides of the body scarcely 



