25 



bidte i Stykker af omtrent 8""" Længde": Ij.iaget og store 

 Stykker af Legemet af Buccinum hydrophmnmi, Hauc. 

 medens intet Spor fandtes af Skallet, som den saaledes maa 

 liave itubidt og atter udspyttet. inden Dyret blev slugt; 

 Smaastykker af en af de guldhaarede x\uuelider. der syntes 

 at være Laetmonice filicornis, Kinb. ; et belt Expl. af den 

 af G. 0. Sårs beskrevne Isopode llyarachna lihikeps ; Dele 

 af den i næsteu alle Fiskemaver optrædende Hyperide The- 

 misto libelhtla, Mandt. samt endelig Kjæverne af en liden 

 ITnge ai' en Gephalopode, maaske en Eossia. Hos det næst- 

 storste Individ, optaget fra 459 Favne, var Veutrikelen 

 fiildproppet af Tlmnisto libelJitla, men indeholdt ingen andre 

 gjenkj endelige Levminger. 



Udbredelse. Ligesom de øvrige arctiske Cottoider 

 synes C. microps ikke at bave nogen særdeles indskrænket 

 Udbredelse. men forekommer eudnu temmelig langt mod 

 Syd paa Dybderne udenfor de norske Kyster. Forudeu 

 Nordbavs-Expeditionens 3 Individer fra Havet omkring 

 Spitsbergen, bvoraf det nordligste of)toges under SCN. B.. 

 foreliggei'. som tidligere næ^mt. et Yngel-Individ fra Ham- 

 merfest i Vesttinmarken. optaget i 1874. samt en noget 

 større Unge, optaget af Conservator Storm fra 180 FaVues 

 Dyb i Trondbjemsfjorden Hosten 1878 (63i//' N. B.). Som 

 en ægte Bundtisk forekommer den sandsynligvis stationær 

 paa passende LoCaliteter langs hele den melleniliggende Del 

 af de norske Kyster, og utvivlsomt ogsaa ved de øvrige 

 arctiske Landsdele eller i Havet raellem dem. idetmindste 

 paa Isliavets europæiske Side; dog bebor den vistnok blot 

 de større Dybder, hvor Apparaterne liidtil ikke have været 

 fuldt bensigtsmæssige til Optagelsen a f saadanne Dyb- 

 vandsfornier. 



Gren. Oottns, Lin. 

 . Svst. Xat. ed. 12, tom. 1, ji. ir.I (17(>(iK 



o. Cottus scorpius, Lin. 17G6. 



Cottus scorpius, Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, tom. 1, p. 4ri2 (1760). 

 Cottus groevlandinis, Cuv. & Val. HJist. Nat. Poiss. tom. 4, p. l.'ifi (1S2()|. 

 Cottus mitchillii, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss'. tom. 4, p. 188 (1829). 

 Cottus porosus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. tom. 8, p. 498 (1831). 

 Acanthocottus lahradoncus, (rir. Brist. .Jourii. Nat. Hist. vol. (i, p. 247, 



tab. 7, fig. :i (ISnO). 

 Acanthocottus ocellatns, H. li. Storer, Bost. .Toiii'ii. Nat. Hist. vol. (i, p. 



2:):! (I8:i0). 



Cottus glacial is, Rich. Last. Aret. Voy. Belch, vol. 2, p. :!49, tab. 2:! 1 18riri). 



Et yngre Individ med en Totall. af 81""". en Hoved- 

 længde af 27 '"'". erholdtes paa ringe Dyb ved Norsk-Øerne 

 paa Spitsbergens Nordside den 16de Aug. 1878. Intet 

 Indiv. optoges paa de ø\Tige fra Land mere fjernede Sta- 

 tioner, ogAi-ten er utvivlsomt en Kystform blandt Cottoiderne. 



Den iinrske NurdliavsexiKMUtimi. Collett: Fiske. 



Spiochætojitervs typims, M. Sårs (described in "Fauna 

 Littoralis Norvegiæ." Part 2. 1856). about 8""" in length; 

 the operculum, together with large fragments of tlie body. 

 of Bwrinmn hydrophmmm. Hane. (no vestige could be 

 detected o^' the shell, which the fish must have crushed and 

 ejected before proceeding to swal]ow the animal); small 

 fragments of one of the golden haired Annelids, apparently 

 Lcetmoiiice filicornis, Kinb. ; an entire example of the Iso- 

 pod llyarachna hirticeps, GT. 0. Sars; portions of the Hy- 

 peroid Themisto libellula, Mandt, occurring in the stomachs 

 of almost all fishes; and finally the jaws of a young Ceph- 

 alojjod. jjossibly a Rossia. In the specimen next in size 

 (459 fathoms) the ventricle was distended with numerous 

 individuals of TJiemisto lihcllula. 



Distribution. — As is the case witii the Arctic 

 Cottoids generally. C. microps would not appear to have a very 

 limited range, occurring as it does comparatively far south, 

 in deep water off the coast of Norway. Exclusive of the 

 three individuals obtained on the Expedition ofi' Spitzber- 

 gen. the most northerly in lat. 80" N.. a fry-specimen 

 was. as before mentioned, taken near Hammerfest, West 

 Finmark, in 1874, and a young example, by conservatoi' 

 Storm, at a depth of 180 fathoms, in the Drontheim Fjord, 

 in the autumn of 1878 (lat. 63'// N.). As a true bottam- 

 species, this form probably is met with stationary, in fa- 

 vourable localities, along the entire intermediate line of 

 the Norwegian coast, and no doubt, too, throughout the 

 Arctic regions generally, or the intervening tracts of 

 ocean, at least in tlie European division of the Polar Sea; 

 without doubt, however, its liabitat lies at depths from which 

 the apparatus hitherto devised has not been fully adapted 

 for obtaining specimens. 



Gren. Cottxxs, Lin. 



Syst. Nat. ed. 12. tom. 1, p. 451 (1766). 



5. Cottus scorpius, Lin. 1766. 



Cottus scorpius, Lin. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, torn. I, p. 4.'i2 (1766). 

 Cottus grænlandicus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. tom. 4. p. IfiM (1S29|. 

 Cottus mitchillii, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. toni. 4, p. 188 (1829). 

 Cottus porosus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. tom. 8, p. 498 (1831). 

 Acanthocottus labradoricus, Grir. Bost. .Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. 6. p. 247. 



tab. 7, fig. 3 (I8.J0). 

 Acanthocottus ocellatns, H. R. Storer, Bost. .Tourn. Nat. Hist. vol. 6. 



p. 2.53 (18.'i0). 

 Cottus glacialis, Rich. Last. Arct. Voy. Belch, vol! 2. p. 349, tab. 2:; ( l^.'i.'i). 



A young individual, total length 81'"'", length of head 

 27 """, was obtained off the Norsk Islands, northern coast of 

 Spitzbergen, Aug. 16th 1878. No example was taken at 

 any of the other stations farther from land; the spe- 

 cies is undoubtedly a littoral form of the family. 



