THE FISHES OF THE - INGOLF EXPEDITIONS. 



Station 83: 62° 25' Lat. X., 2S : 30' Long. W., at a depth of 912 fathoms, S. W. of Iceland, with a bottom- 

 temperature of 3 . 5 C. The height of the body is contained somewhat more than 5 times (1:5.3) in 

 the total length, reckoned to a line between the points of the candal fin; the length of the head 

 (i64 mm ) is one third of the total length (to the cleft of the caudal fin); the diameter of the eye equals 

 the distance from the eye to the point of the snout, not one fourth of the length of the head; the 

 tipper jaw terminates in a line with the posterior border of the pupil; the breadth of the somewhat 

 hollow front is somewhat smaller than the ocular diameter or the snout. 



On the southern and eastern hemisphere Alepocephalus is partly represented by Bathytri 

 which should perhaps be united with Alepocephalus. Of the 10 species enumerated in Oceanic 

 Ichthyology- 7 are Atlantic. 



Scopelini. 



Species of Scope/its are caught at S stations , but they have almost all suffered so much 

 from their being taken in dredges or the trawls, that the light-spots are only visible in part. Some 

 specimens I have identified as S. elongatus; the others belong to the less elongate species. The 

 following list therefore tells, that in the zone traversed by the Ingolf between 6i° and 65° Lat. North 

 are to be found the species of Scopclus enumerated at the noted depths, on the bottom, if they are 

 not captured during the bawling up of the implements used; but experience will also show that it 

 is not through bottom fishery, that one may procure a good material of these animals, ecpialling that 

 furnished by the surface. 



I refer the reader to my Bidrag til nordisk Ichthyographi VIII. Nogle nordiske Laxesild 

 (Scopelini) in the Videuskabelige Meddelelser fra den uaturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn , 1881, 

 and to Spolia Atlantica, Scopelini Musei Zoologici etc.- (K. D. Vid. Selsk. Skrifter 6. Rcekke, VII, 6). 

 Stat. Lat. N. Lgtd. W. Fathoms 



12 

 17 

 25 



27 



35 



40 



81 



141 



64' 3S' 32° 37' 1040 (Denmark Strait, W. of Iceland) Sc. elongatus Risso and Sc. glacialis Rhdt. 



62 : 49' 26 : 55' 745 (S. W. of Iceland) Scop, arcticus Ltk. 



63" 30' 54 25' 582 (W. of Godthaab) Scop, arclictis Ltk. 



64° 54' 55" 10' 393 (S. W. of Sukkertoppen) Scop, glacialis Rhdt. 



65 16' 55 05' 362 (same place) Scop, glacialis Rhdt. 



62" 00' 21° 36' 845 (S. of Iceland) Scop, elongatus Risso. 



61° 44' 27° 00' 485 (S. W. of Iceland) | 



[ Scop, olacialis Rhdt. 



63° 22' 6 r 58' 679 (East of Iceland) I 



Cyclothone (Gonostoma) microdon Gthr. 



For this widely diffused species I shall refer to my remarks in my Korte Bidrag til nordisk 

 Ichthyographi VIII ( Videuskabelige Meddelelser fra den uaturhistoriske Forening. 1S91, p. 2 16 

 article 5 on Gonostoma (Cyclothone) microdon Gthr. and to my description and figure in my Spolia 

 Atlantica, Scopelini Musei Zoologici etc. (K. D. Vid. Selsk. Skr. (6) VII, 6, tab. II, fig. .( 5). At an 

 early time (1843) we got this little Scopelid from the Baffin Bay. The ^Challenger Expeditions got 



The Ingolf-Expedition. II. 1. 



