1808. No. 1. LYCODES SARSII. 7 
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This young one, which thus became the type specimen, was of a 
total length of but 44 mm., and was, moreover, excessively thin and 
slender, but, nevertheless gave one the impression that it, on the whole, 
had assumed the bodily form and appearance of the more fully grown 
individuals. The colouration of the body was developed, though the 
scales were wanting. Above the median line of the body the colour 
was a dark grey, beneath it yellowish white, without spots or stripes. 
In August 1882, three small Lycodes were obtained (during Professor 
Sars’s deep sea dredging) in the Trondhjem Fjord, at a depth of 
80 to 200 fathoms, which I found represented a more advanced stage 
in the development of Z. sarsii. These three specimens were of a 
total length of 57 to 62 mm. The colouration presenting a marked 
difference to that of the type specimen, the greyish-brown ground- 
colour, which in the latter covered the body above the median line, 
being in the former covered with large or small irregular brownish- 
black patches; the bodies were, moreover, partly covered with 
scales. They are described and delineated in 1884 (in Nyt Magazin 
f. Naturv., 1884, Vol. 20). 
Besides these, one other individual has been reported as belonging 
to this species. Amongst the marine animals obtained by the «Porcu- 
pine Expedition» in 1869, one specimen of a fish was caught at a 
depth of 180 fathoms off the North of Scotland, which was stated 
by Dr. Günther in 1874, in a short notice? to be Anguilla kieneri, 
Kaup (a form of eel from the Mediterranean). 
This specimen was re-examined in 1882, by Dr. Day 3, who placed 
it under the genus Lycodes, giving it the name, provisionally, of Ly- 
codes kienert (Giinth.). Finally Dr. Günther himself in 1885, in his 
account of the deep sea fishes obtained by the Challenger Expedition 4 
specified it (by the last mentioned appellation) as a synonym under 
LSAT Sit. 
No further description of this young individual, which was of a 
total length of 85 mm., has appeared. It was, probably, badly pre- 
served, and the woodcuts which accompany Dr. Day’s and Dr. Giin- 
ther’s reports, and which delineate the head and fore part of the 
body, represent but a lengthy, scaled Lycodes (the characteristic cross 
Phys, PL I Bigs. 3 & a. 
2 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1874, Ser. IV, Vol. 13, p. 130. 
3 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 236. 
4 Rep. Scient. Res. Voy. Chall. Zoology, Vol. 22, p. 80 (1887). 
