The fishes of the Danmark Expedition. 651 



region under the lateral line has a very characteristic festooned 

 marking in the form of 3 — 4 crescents connected continuously with 

 one another. 



Over 100 mm the ground-colour of the dorsal region is still 

 darker and has almost entirely blotted out the dark spots under D-. 

 The belly as well as the ventrals and anal are pale reddish-yellow 

 in the male (which has a much stronger colour on the whole than 

 the female), more pale silvery in the female. The festooned marking 

 of the caudal region is now somewhat spread out (but yet distinct), 

 as the spots are about to grade into the colour of the dorsal region. 

 The cross-bands of the fins are now very distinct and almost blue- 

 black; it is peculiar, that whilst a J* of 107 mm and a female of 

 140 mm have "sooty" colouration on the skin of D^, this is wanting 

 in a ? of 125 mm, 



Triglops pingelii J. Reinli. 



After Gadus saida and Icelus hamatus this was the fish most 

 frequently taken at Danmarks Havn (and once in Stormbugt), where 

 it is exceedingly common (especially smaller specimens of ca. 

 50—100 mm) in the soft bottom of the Laminaria and Deles- 

 seria regions (ca. 5 — 20 m), so that the adults mainly occur in 

 deeper water than the young. Elsewhere on the east coast ^ it has 

 been taken at a depth of 200 — 300 m, and we may conclude that it 

 also occurs at intervening depths (ca. 20 — 200 m); but to judge from 

 its abundance its main distribution is certainly in the two regions 

 mentioned (in the deeper water also it has only been taken singly). 

 A pelagic larva of 24 mm was taken in a depth of over ca, 10 m 

 on 8. — 10. — 1906. All the other specimens are from July and 

 August 1907. 



Regarding the dimensions of the fish the table below shows that 

 the largest J* measured 148mm, the largest Ç 155mm. In these: 



Length of P Length of V Height of D^ 

 29 mm 19 mm 11mm c? of 148 mm 



28 — 18 — 11 — ? - 155 — 



It will be seen that the sexual differences are chiefly shown in 

 the length of the pectorals and ventrals (in addition to the size and 

 colour markings). 



In the female of 155 mm (which like all the other fish over 

 100 mm was taken on 25. — 8. — 07) the abdomen was swollen with 

 fairly few but large, ripe eggs (ca. 3 mm in diameter), which were 

 of a transparent, light-red colour, 



1 Ad. S. Jensen 1. с p. 247 and Kofoed 1. с. p. 488. 



