THE FISHES OF THE «INGOLF» EXPEDITIONS. 



Station 83: 62° 25' Lat. N., 28° 30' Long. W., at a depth of 912 fathoms, S. W. of Iceland, with a bottom- 

 temperature of 3". 5 C. The height of the body is contained somewhat more than 5 times (i : 5.3) in 

 the total length, reckoned to a line between the points of the caudal fin; the length of the head 

 (164""") is one third of the total length (to the cleft of the caudal fin); the diameter of the eye equals 

 the distance from the eye to the point of the snout, not one fourth of the length of the liead; the 

 upper jaw terminates in a line with the posterior border of the pupil; the breadth of the somewhat 

 hollow front is somewhat smaller than the ocular diameter or the snout. 



On the southern and eastern hemisphere Alcpocephahis is partly represented by Batliytroctcs^ 

 which should perhaps be united with Alcpocephahis. Of the 10 species enumerated in <. Oceanic 

 Ichthyology* 7 are Atlantic. 



Scopelini. 



Species of Scopclits are caught at 8 <; stations , but the}' have almost all suffered so much 

 from their being taken in dredges or the trawls, that the light-spots are only visible in part. Some 

 specimens I have identified as ._S". donga tns] the others belong to the less elongate species. The 

 following list therefore tells, that in the zone traversed by the eingolf* between 61° and 65° Lat. North 

 are to be found the species of Scopclns enumerated at the noted depths, on the bottom, if they are 

 not captured during the hawling up of the implements used; but experience will also show that it 

 is not through bottom fishery, that one may procure a good material of these animals, equalling that 

 furnished by the surface. 



I refer the reader to my < Bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi VIII. Nogle nordiske Laxesild 

 (Scopelini)> in the «Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn*, 1881, 

 and to Spolia Atlantica, Scopelini Musei Zoologici etc.- (K. D. Vid. Selsk. Skrifter 6. Rsekke, VII, 6). 



Stat. Lat. N. Ldtd. W. Fathoms 



12 

 17 

 25 

 27 



35 



40 



81 



141 



64"^ 38' 32° 37' 1040 (Denmark Strait, W. of Iceland) Sc. cloiigafiis Risso and Sc. glacialis Rhdt. 



62' 49' 26- 55' 745 (S. W. of Iceland) Scop, arcticus Ltk. 



63' 30' 54- 25' 582 (W. of Godthaab) Scop, arcticus Ltk. 



64"' 54' 55° 10' 393 (S. W. of Sukkertoppen) Scop, glacialis Rhdt. 



65^ 16' 55^ 05' 362 (same place) Scop, glacialis Rhdt. 



62" 00' 21' 36' 845 (S. of Iceland) Scop, clongatus Risso. 



61"-" 44' 27° 00' 485 (S. W. of Iceland) ) 



I Scop, glacialis Rhdt. 



63" 22' 6 58' 679 (East of Iceland) ) 



Cyclothone (Gonostoma) microdon Gthr. 



For this widely diffused species I shall refer to my remarks in my < Korte Bidrag til nordisk 

 Ichthyographi VIII («Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening) 1891, p. 216 — 19, 

 article 5 on Gonostoma (Cyclothonr) microdon Gthr. and to m}- description and figure in my <, Spolia 

 Atlantica, Scopelini Musei Zoologici etc. (K. D. Vid. Selsk. Skr. (6) VII, 6, tab. II, fig. 4—5). At an 

 early time (1843) "^^'^ got this little ScopeHd from the Baffin Bay. The «Challenger Expedition* got 



The Ingolf-Bxpedition. 11. i. 2 



