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Det første Exemplai-, fraExjieditionen i 1876. optoges 

 med det fine Overj&adenet fra Vaudskorpen paa Fiskebanken 

 Storeggen udenfor fJliristiansund'(A^orge). og var øjensynlig 

 udkastet i bnlvfordøjet Stand af en Fiskemave. Skjælbe- 

 klædningen manglede saagodtsom overalt, ligesom mindre 

 Dele af Legemets Sider vare fortærede; derimod vare Fin- 

 nerne forboldsvis vel vedligeboldte, ligesom de sølvglindsende 

 (l)bospborescerende?) Pletter langs Bugen næsten overalt 

 vare i Bebold. 



De 3 Exemplarer fra Expeditionen i 1878 vare alle 

 noget over balvt udvoxede, og optoges fra Havet langt 

 vestenfor Hammerfest med Trawlnettet, der ber naaede Bund 

 paa 1 1 10 Favnes Dyb. Ogsaa her mangler Skjælljeklæd- 

 ningen sangodtsom fuldstændig, og flere Finner ere a^ljrudte ; 

 især er Caudalen defect, saa at ludividernes Totallængde 

 ikke nøjagtigt kan opgives. 



De langs Veuti-allinien løbende sølvglindsende Pletter 

 ere (ibrsaavidt de kunne sees. eller ere i Beboldj fordelte 

 pan følgende Maade: 



Mellem Struben og Ventrnlerne 5 Par; det øverste 

 er beda^kket af Gjællelaagene, naar disse ere belt tilsluttede. 



Mellem Ventralerne og Analen 4 Par; dette Tal er 

 constant bos alle de af mig liidtil undersøgte Exemplarer. 

 (Kroyer angiver 3 i ovenfor anførte Beski'ivelse). 



Langs Analen findes 7 Par; bos et i Universitets- 

 Musæet opbevaret nogenlunde fuldstændigt Exemplar fra 

 Hasvig ved Hnnimerfest er der mellem den 5te og 6te Plet et 

 noget større Mellemrum, end mellem de øvrige; hos de 2 

 af Exemplarerne fra Nordhavs-Expeditionen, hvor _ disse 

 Pletter ere blevne bevarede, er der derimod et lignende 

 Mellemrum mellem den (Jte og 7de Plet. 



Mellem Analen og Caudalen findes 6 Par, der alle 

 staa tættere sammen, end i de foregaaende Rækker. 



Ved Roden af Claudalen nedenfor Midtlinien findes 1 

 Par. 



De forskjellige enkeltstaaende Pletter eller kortere 

 Rækker, 'der findes hist og ber pan, Legemets Sider, kunne 

 ikke efter de forhaandenværende Exemplarer beskrives. 



•De ei'holdte Exemplarer havde følgende Maal og 

 Straaleantal : 



Strnnleantallet i Analen kan blot hos 2 af Individerne 

 med nogenlunde Sikkerbed angives. Hos det ene Exem- 

 plar er den sidste Analstraale dobbelt, hvilket er utydeligt 

 hos det andet. 



Føde. I Ventrikelen af det ene af de paa Stat. 295 

 erholdte Individer fnndtes Dele af en Tltemisio libelliila, 

 Mandt, samt flere Exemplarer af Concoecia horealis, G. 0. 



Den norske Nordhavsexpedition. Collett; Fiske. 



The first individual, obtained on the cruise in 1876. 

 was taken in the fine-meshed surface-net. on the Storeggen 

 fishing-bank, ofl" Christiansund (Norway), aud bad evidently 

 been ejected in a half-digested state from a fish's stomach. 

 The scales were almost everywhere wanting ; moreover, small 

 portions of the sides of the body had disappeared ; the 

 fins, on the other band, were comparatively uninjured, as 

 also the argenteous (phosphorescent?) spots extending along 

 the abdomen. • 



The 3 specimens taken on the last cruise of the Ex- 

 pedition, in 1878, were all a little more than half-grown; 

 they were captured at sea, far west of Hammerfest, in the 

 trawl-net, which had been sunk to the depth of 1110 

 fathoms. On these specimens, too, hardly a scale remains, 

 and several of the fins are broken, more especially the 

 caudal; hence the total length cannot be accurately stated. 



The silvery spots along the ventral line were disposed 

 (so far as the condition of the individuals admitted of ob- 

 serving them), in the following order. 



Between the throat and the ventrals 5 pairs, tlie upper- 

 most covered by the gill-plates when the "latter are closed. 



Between the ventrals and the anal 4 pairs ; this num- 

 ber is constant in all the examples I have hitherto exam- 

 ined (Kroyer gives o in ."Naturh. Tidsskr."). 



Along the anal 7 pairs; in a specimen, comparatively 

 perfect, preserved in the University Museum, from Hasvig 

 near Hammerfest, the space between the 5th and 6tb spots 

 is somewhat wider tlian that between the others; 2 of the 

 individuals obtained on the North Atlantic Expedition in 

 which these spots are visible, have a similar space between 

 tlie 6th and 7th spots. 



Between the anal and tlie caudal 6 pairs, more closely 

 arranged than in any of the foregoing series. 



At the origin of the caudal, below the mesial line. 1 

 pair. 



■ The various isolated spots or shorter series occurring 

 here and there on the sides of the body cannot be determ- 

 ined from the specimens taken on the Expedition. 



The measurements and fin-ray formulæ in the specimens 

 obtained wei^e as follows: — 



The number of fin-rays in the anal could be determ- 

 ined with comparative accuracy in but two of the individuals ; 

 one of tliem had the terminal anal ray double ; in the 

 other specimen tliis cliaracter is not distinct. 



Food. — The stomach of one of the individuals taken 

 at Station 295 contained fragments of a Tlienristo liheViiIa, 

 Mandt, together with several examples of Concæda borealis, 



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