BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 é. 31 



on the tip of the tail be countod); anal opening below the midst 

 of the first. Scaly covering thin but expanded över the whole 

 sidas of the body (except belly) backward at least to the fifth 

 caudal crossband. Lateral lines ventral, a thiu dorsal (in the 

 abdomiual region and the före part of the tail) and a median 

 (in the före and middle part of the tail). 



N:o R. 10. Between Greenland and Jan-Mayen; 72° 42' n.; 14° 49' w.; 

 depth 2000 m.; mud with foraminifera; August 27, 1900; KOLT- 

 HOFF-expedition. 



Head, fore-part of body, and fins bluish red, tail red, uni- 

 form. Vertical fins black-edged. 



N:o R. 11. Same locality as preceding. Uniform red. Scales on 

 belly and on the back forward to half way between dorsal fin 

 and head. 



X:o R. 12. Same locality as preceding. Uniform greyish-red. Scales 

 as on preceding. 



13 — 22, forma seminuda. 



X:o R. 13. Greenland; 73'55'n.; 19°20'w.; depth 150 m.; mud- 

 bottora; August 7, 1900; KOLTHOFF-expedition. 



Colour very light; the white interspaces broader than the 

 reddish-grey, dark-brown-edged crossmarks. Caudal saddle-marks 

 (resp. crossbauds behind) 5, the three hindraost forming bands 

 Crossing both body and vertical fins; tip of tail with fin white. 

 Belly feebly bluish. Anal opening below the interspace between 

 the second abdominal and first caudal saddle-mark. No scales. 



X:o R. 14. Same locality as N:o V. 29. 



Rather dark variety, with bluish belly and with the lower 

 (ventral) reddish parts of the saddle-marks uniting, thus giving 

 the white interspaces the appearance of more or less drop-like 

 saddle-marks. White, reddish-brown-edged spöt ou the neck left 

 as a remnant from the original white nuchal cross-band, which 

 besides has left a smaller white spöt on the opercle of each side, 

 at the upper angle of the branchial aperture. Caudal dark cross- 

 marks 8, the hindmost on the tip of the tail with caudal fin. 

 Anal opening below the first caudal dark saddle-mark. Scales 

 on the sides of the före part of the tail backward to the penul- 

 timate dark crossband. Length of the intermaxillar as well as 

 of the i>alatine series of teeth 6.2 mm. 



X:o R. 15. Same locality as N:o V. 37. 



A little paler than the preceding, only the third and fourth 

 dark caudal crossmarks uniting below. Nuchal white crossband 

 as in the preceding. Caudal dark crossmarks 8; anal opening 

 below the back part of the first. Scales on the sides of the 

 tail, from the second dark caudal crossband backward almost to 

 the bind tip of the body. Length of the intermaxillar series of 

 teeth 9 mm., of the palatine 8.2 mm. 



