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type (G. fric?ispis) differs specifically from the Northpacific (G. pistilligcr). I refer the reader to the 

 notes of Gilbert (1. c. p. 424). As I have also previously bespoken the relation between Phobctor 

 (GyiiniacautliHS) and the species Cothis claviger and C. dicrrcrus^ I shall further add, that these two 

 species now (Gilbert 1. c. p. 426) are cited as species of a genus Eiiop/irys. 



Cottunculus microps Coll. 



Cottus or Cottuiicuhts jiiicrops is first (1875) established (Collett: ; Norges Fiske, nied Bemserk- 

 ninger om deres Udbredelse >>, Tillseg til Videnskab. Selsk. Forhandl. 1874, p. 20, pi. I, fig. 3) on a very 

 young sea-scorpion, fished by jMr. O. Sars at the depth of 200 fathoms in the vicinity of Hammers- 

 fest. Afterwards ;;den norske Nordhavs-Expedition. (I.e. p. 18 — 25, pi. I, fig- 5 — 6) obtained it in 3 spe- 

 cimens, taken Northwest of Hammersfest and West of Norskoen (Spitsbergen) at depths from 191 to 

 459 fathoms (size 93 — 175™'"); the bottom sandy or grayish blue clay, the temperature at the bottom 

 -=-0".! a 3°.5 C. Still later it was found in the Faroe-Channel, so called, by an English expedition 

 (Giinther: Report, Challenger, jd. 60, t. IX, fig- A) and by an American expedition still nearer to the 

 American side, two small specimens from a depth of 260 fathoms, 39^ 59' L,at. N. and 70'' 18' Long. W. 

 (Tarleton Bean and Brown Goode: (Report on the results of dredging->. Bull. Mus. Compar. Zool. 

 1883, p. 212). From Greenland itself we have obtained 3 specimens (200 — 260""") sent down by I\I. 

 Miiller, inspector of the colony Sukkertoppen, and Prof. F. Smitt states («Skandinaviens Fiskar» I, 

 p. 159), that a male of the length of 157""" was taken on Nordenskiold's expedition on the eastcoast of 

 Greenland at 130 fathoms depth on cla>- bottom and at 65° 30' Long. North. The most northern point 

 where this sea-scorpion of the cold and deep sea is known is 80° Lat. North (Spitsbergen), the most 

 southern on the European side is the Trondhjemsfjord (6372^); according to the statement of F. Smitt 

 it is there taken in rather numerous specimens at depths from 100 — 200 fathoms. After a note bv 

 T. Bean (Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks of the southern coast of 

 New England, Nr. 2; American Journal of Science, October 1881, p- 296) it is taken at 7 stations at 

 the depth of 310 — 396 fathoms on the banks off the southcoast of New England. Giinther (I.e.) also 

 states , that several specimens are known from the southcoast of New England at depths from 238 to 

 372 fathoms. Compare also iOceanic Ichthyology > p. 269, fig. 257 and 261a, b. 



This species is figured by Collett at the places cited in « Norges Fiske* and in <den norske 

 Nordhavs Expedition , by Giinther in ; the deep-sea fishes of the Challenger* (1. c), and by F. Smitt 

 (iSkandinaviens Fiskar;, I, p. 158, fig. 45), further in «Oceanic Ichthyology* pi. i. As it is also described 

 b}- the said authors, b}- Lilljeborg and by Jordan and Gilbert («Synopsis of the fishes of North 

 America* 1882, p. 688) I may limit myself to an enumeration of the Ingolfian localities and to the 

 addition of a few descriptive notes. 



The skin is densely rough ever}-where on the liead, body and tail, weakest on the belh, from 

 small round asperities; at some places they are grouped together in small heaps and may be continued 

 on the dorsal ra}s — more sparsely on the pectorals. The interorbital space is rather large. Behind 

 the eyes is found an arc of 4 coniform knobs; somewhat more behind, on the occiput, are two and at 

 both sides in a line with the upper end of the branchial cleft one or two smaller knobs with some more 



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