28 SMITT, ON THE GENUS LYCODES. 



cross-marks. Scales on the whole body, except head and belly. 

 Lateral Ii ne ventral. 



N:o V. 33. Greenland, off Frauz-Joseph-firth, between Bontekoe-island 

 and Mackenzie-bay, depth 250 m.; mud-bottom; August 8, 1900; 

 KOLTHOFF-expedition. 



Colour almost the same as in X:o V. 25, but paler, with 

 the white crossbands broader, Caudal dark crossmarks 6; hind- 

 most part of the dorsal tin white, caudal faintly dusk; anal black- 

 brown from behind forward about to below the bind margin of 

 the second caudal saddle-raark, in front lighter. Belly and bran- 

 chiostegal membrane livid. Scaly covering complete to below the 

 last dorsal crossband. Head with nape and belly naked. Lateral 

 lines ventral and dorsal, the latter thin but reaching at least to 

 the second caudal dark crossmark. 



N:o V. 34. Same locality as N:o V. 13. 



Colour reddish grey, intermediate between the dark and light 

 varicties, but with belly and sides of the head dark livid. Caudal 

 dark crossmarks 6, but the hindmost defective (only faintly marked) 

 in the dorsal fin, whose end together with the caudal fin is white. 

 Scaly covering complete on the body, but the head with nape 

 and belly as well as the hindmost part of the tail naked. Fins 

 (as before) naked. Lateral lines ventral, median and dorsal. 



N:o V. 35. Same locality as N:o V. 26. 



Dark variety, else the colour as in the preceding specimen. 

 Caudal crossmarks 8, else as remarked in the preceding. Scales 

 and lateral lines as in the preceding. Fins (as before) naked. 

 Hind margin of pectoral fins feebly incised. Anal fin rather light livid. 



N:o V. 36. Same locality as N:o V. 33. 



Colour on the body a little' lighter than in the preceding, 

 on the anal fin darker. Caudal dark crossmarks 9, but the last 

 small, placed on the caudal fin. 



N:o V. 37. Greenland, outer part of Musk-ox-bay; depth 200 m.; 

 clay-bottom; August 21, 1900; KOLTHOFF-expedition. 



Light variety, reddish blue-grey, with the crossmarks on the 

 body faded away. Dark livid spöt on the opercle and in the 

 upper pectoral axil (to be compared with the gracilis-ioxm). 

 Caudal dark crossbands in the dorsal fin 5 conspicuous and 1 

 rather faded. Anal fin dark, light-edged. Scaly covering almost 

 reaching the tip of the tail. Fins naked. Lateral lines ventral, 

 median and dorsal, the first-named to be followed along at least 

 half the length of the base of the anal fin. Incision in the hind 

 margin of the pectorals rather inconspicuous. 



N:o V. 38. Same locality as N:o V. 29. 



Colour and markings almost completely the same as in X:o 

 V. 26, but the hindmost crossbands still less marked, and the 

 opercular tract darker. 



X:o Y. 39. Same locality as N:o V. 37. 



Light variety, with the påle dark saddle-marks running to- 

 gether below, thus turning the light interspaces to saddle-marks 



