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muler di-ii (Jte Dorsalstraale, den sidste en iialv Hoved- 

 længde fra Haleroden. Mellenirummeue luellem dem kunne 

 viere næsten iiden Pletter, saaledes som hos enkelte Hunner, ■ 

 eller opfyldte af mindre Pletter, der ogsaa udbrede feig 

 nedenfor Legemets Midtlinie, uden dog nogensinde at naa 

 en saadan Størrelse, som de 5 store Tverplettcr. Nedad 

 Dorsalen lobe hos de ældre Individer omtrent l-t skråa 

 Tverbaand, ligesom ogsaa Caudalen altid har distincte 'J'ver- 

 baand. 



Hos et Individ fra, Christianiafjorden, som jeg havde 

 Lejlighed til at undersøge i levende Tilstand (en gammel 

 Hau, med en Totallængde af 171'"'"). fa,udt jeg Hovedets 

 Farve hlaalig-gron. marmoreret med brune Pletter ; et smalt 

 gulagtigt Baand loh ned foran , hvert Øje. og et lignende 

 tvers over Snuden. hvilke tilsammen indesluttede en triangti- 

 lær brunsort Plet. En sort Plet fandtes ogsaa paa Gjælle- 

 laaget. Iris var mat messingfarvet, dets øvre Rand næ- 

 sten sort. 



Føde. Ventrikelen indeholdt adskillige hele yngre 

 Individer af Themitifo-liheJhila, samt en af de skjælbeklædte 

 Annelider (Lepidomtf). 



Udbredelse. Reinhardts Exemplarer af hans jC. arø- 

 leatus vare alle ira Grønland. Fra Spitsbergen har den 

 hidtil ikke været omtalt; men foruden Exemplaret fra Mag- 

 dalenebay har jeg, som ovenfor nævnt, havt Anledning til 

 at undersøge endnu et ved SjDitshergen erholdt Exemplar. 

 Fremdeles optraxler den langs den norske Kyst. dog som 

 det synes, idethele ikke talrigt. lige ned til Christianiafjor- 

 den; mod Syd gaar den ned til Rysterne af Bohuslen (58 "), 

 fra hvilken Localitet Arten oprinch'lig af Fries blev beskre- ' 

 ven i 1837, og hvor flere Exemplarer ogsaa i de senere 

 Aar ere. fundne. Paa Nord-Americas Østkyst gaar den 

 ifølge Goode & Bean (1879) ned lige til New-Englands 

 Kyster, idet den er i tiere Individer erholdt i Bugten uden- 

 for Massachusetts (420). 



17. Lumpenus lampetraeformis, (Walb.) 1792. 



BUunius capite laeiii, etc, Mohr, Isl. Natiu'h. p. N4, tab. 4 (17>i<i). 

 Blennins lampetraeformis, Walb. Art. Cfeu. Pisc. J). 1^4 (IT!)'-!). 

 Centronotvs islandicus, Bloch, Schneid. Syst. lohth. p. KiT (1801). ■ 

 Blennius lumpenus, pt. Faber, Fische Isl. p. Til (182(;1). 

 Centrouobis lumpenus, Nilss. Prodr. Ichtli. Scand. p. 104 (1832). 

 Climis nehiilosus, Fi'ies, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Handl. 183", p. 49 (18H7). 

 Climis wohrii, Kr. Naturh. Tidsskr. 1 K. 1 B. 183T, p. :V> (is:!7). 



immediately beneath the 6th dorsal ray. the terminal spot 

 being , distant half the length of the head from the origin 

 of the tail. The disjunctive spaces sometimes almost spotless, 

 for instance in some females, or covered with smaller spots, 

 likewise extending below the mesial line, but all of them 

 of a size considerably less than that of the large transverse 

 spots. . The dorsal, in mature individuals, marked witlr 

 about 14 oblique transvei'se tars; the caudal, too, is in- 

 variably traversed by distinct transverse bauds. 



In one individual, taken in the Chi'istiania Fjord, 

 which I had an opportunity of examining while still alive 

 (an old male, total length 171 """ ). the colour of the head 

 was bluish -green, i'reckled with brown spots; a narrow 

 yellowish band extended downwards in front of each eye, and 

 another traversed the snout, enclosing together a triangular 

 patch of brownish-black. A black spot occurs, too, On the 

 gill-plate. Irides of the colour of tarnished brass, almost ■ 

 black above. 



Food. — The ventricle contained several perfect 

 . examples of TJiemisto UheUula, and a testaceous Annelid 

 (Lepidonote). 



Distribution. — Reinhardt's specimens of jL. aCTffea^ifS 

 were all from the coast of Greenland. From Spitzbergen, 

 it had not j)i'eviously been mentioned. But. excliisive" of 

 the specimen from Magdalene Bay, I have had an oppor- 

 tunity, as ' before observed, of examining another indi- 

 vidual taken on the coast of Spitzbergen. Moreover, the 

 species occurs along the shores of Norway, but not, it would 

 seem, as a common tish, from the extreme north to the 

 Christiania, Fjord; its range southwards extends to Bohus- 

 len (58"), the locality in which the specimen described 

 by Fries in 1837 was taken, and several examples • have 

 been met with there of late years; ( )n the eastern coast 

 of North America, according to Goode & Bean (1879), the 

 range of the species extends as far south as th'e coast 

 of New England, diVers individuals having been olitained 

 . in Massachusetts Bay (42»). 



17. Lumpenus lampetraeformis, (Walb.) 1792. 



Blennius- capite Imoi, etc. Mohr, Isl. Natiu'li. p-. 84, tab. 4 (I78(i). 

 Blennius lampetncformis, AValb. Art. (ren. .Pisc. p. 184.(17!>2). 

 Centronotus islandicus, Bloch, Schueid. Syst. Ichth. p; KiT (1801). 

 Blennius lumpenus, pt. Faber, Fische Isl. p. Td, (1829). 

 Centronotus lumpenus, Nilss. Prodr. Ichth. Sgand. p. 104 (1832). 

 Cliuus nebulosus. Fries, Kgl. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1S3T, p. 4!) (183T). 

 Clinus mohrii, Kr.' Naturh. Tidsskr. 1 R. 1 'B. 1S3T, p. 32 '(4837). 



