6 SMITT, ON THE GENUS LYCODES. 



perceptible but in the front of the abdomen, above the ventral 

 lateral line. 



N:o V. 24. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Colour påle, as in the preceding, but retaining more of the 

 fry-livery characteristics. Caudal crossmarks 9; tip of caudal fin 

 white. Opercular spöt indistinct. Scales almost as in N:o V. 21; 

 head with nape, the livid belly, a streak along the base of the 

 anal fin and the hindmost part of the body naked. 



N:o V. 25. Same locality as N:o V. 12. 



Dark variety, with the white interspaces forming more or 

 less drop-like saddle-marks in the dorsal fin and the upper part 

 of the sides of the body, but on the tail indistinctly descending 

 to the anal fin. 6 complete and 1 incomplete (in the dorsal fin 

 defective) caudal dark crossmarks, lighter in the centre above, 

 together with a brown tip of the caudal fin. Nuchal light cross- 

 band broadly abrupt on the neck. Opercular dark spöt distinct. 

 Head, as usually, light, almost white below; its upper side with 

 the dorsal colour. Branchiostegal membrane livid, with white 

 margin, Belly påle livid. Scaly covering almost complete on 

 the body, but the head with nape, belly and the hindmost part 

 of the tail naked. Incision in the bind margin of the pectoral 

 fins rather feeble. 



N:o V. 26. Greenland, mouth of Franz- Joseph-firth; depth 200 — 300 

 m.; mud-bottom; August 14, 1900; KOLTHOFF-expedition. 



Colour reddish and yellowish. Nuchal light crossband (be- 

 tween the upper angles of the branchial apertures) almost un- 

 broken. 6 complete caudal dark crossmarks, of which the two 

 hindmost are reduced to crossbands; the 7th crossmark defective 

 in the dorsal fin and represented only by a lump of brown pig- 

 meut-spot in the anal margin of the body; the 8th represented 

 by a brown pigment-spot on the caudal fin, whose tip however 

 is light. Anal fin brown, reddish in front, almost black behind; 

 with light margin. Opercular spöt confluent with the brown (but 

 light-edged) branchiostegal membrane. Anal opening below the 

 front margin of the first caudal dark saddle-mark. Back margin 

 of pectoral fins feebly incised. This specimen to be compared 

 with N:o Y. 38, below. 



27 — 42, forma Vahlii typica. 



X:o V. 27. Baffin-bay; 71°42'u., 73' w.; depth 15—30 m.; sand 

 with stones; September 28, 1894; Forrester E. Nilsson. 



Light yellow, with reddish brown markings. Upper side of 

 the head coloured as a saddle-mark, enclosing the upper half 

 part of the eyes. Nuchal light crossband arched fore-over from 

 the one to the other pectoral fin. Of the two abdominal dark 

 saddle-marks, the first reaches the dorsal fin only with the tip 

 of its bind, brown margin. Caudal saddlemarks 4t of which 

 however the third evidently is composed of two yel undivided. 



