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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Heligoland, and from the open sea, off Bear Island and Spitzbergen, from depths varying 

 between 350 and 658 fathoms. 



I have nothing to add to the long description given by CoUett, except that our 

 specimens, which vary in length from 2^ to 9 inches, do not confirm his observation that 

 the scales are most developed in examples of about 6 inches. The scales are equally 

 rudimentary and irregularly developed on the different portions of the body. Generally 

 they are present on the tail, but become only conspicuous when the specimen is allowed 

 to dry. The number of anal rays varies from 87 to 100. 



Lycodes sarsii. 



Lycodes sarsii, CoUett, OversigtK. D. Vid. Selsk. Forliandl., 1872, p. 62, c. tab.; Norsk. Nordh. 



Exped. Fisk., p. 117; Nyt Mag. f. Naturvid. Christ., 1884, p. 78, pi. i. 



figs. 3-4. 

 Anguilla kieneri, Giinth., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1874, vol. xiii. p. 138. 

 Lycodes kieneri, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 536. 



The knowledge of this species rests upon two young specimens, of which one, 

 43 mm. long, was caught in the Hardanger Fjord, at a depth of 100 to 150 fathoms, the 



other, 85 mm. long, in the North Atlantic, in 

 180 fathoms, during the cruise of H.M.S. "Por- 

 cupine." 



This is a shorter species than Lycodes murcena, 



the vent being situated at the end of the anterior 



third of the total length, and the head occupying 



nearly one-half of the distance between the snout 



and vent. The pits, with their foramina, in the 



circumference of the upper and lower jaw are 



deep, but the skin covering the jaws is much less 



spongy than in Lycodes murcena; in fact, that 



of the upper jaw does not even form a labial 



fold. The snout is broad, obtuse, rounded, 



scarcely longer than the large eye. Ventrals very slender, two-rayed. Body with 



non-imbricate, minute, rudimentary scales, without any markings. Branchiostegals, five. 



The specimen is too much shrunk to allow of the fin-rays being counted. 



Fig. 3. —Lycodes sarsii, natural size. 



Lycodes verrilli. 



Lycodes verrilli, Goode and Bean, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, vol. xiv., 1878, p. 474; Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. x., 1883, p. 207. 

 „ „ Collett, Norsk. Nordh. Exped. Fisk., p. 118 {c. fig). 



„ „ Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. iii., 1881, pp. 337, 477. 



Coast of Massachusetts and northward, in from 90 to 603 fathoms. 



