,, THE FISHES OF THE IXGOLF EXPEDITIONS. 



Cottoidei (s. 1.). 



Sebastes marinus L. (norvegicus Ascan.) 



was found at the following places, Davis Strait, off Holsteinsborg, by the Ingolf expedition : 

 Station Lat. X. Long. W. fathoms temp, at bottom 



3i: 66^35' 55 54' 88 1 .OC. 



32: 66 35' 56 38' 318 Brown gray mud with Rhabdammina 3.0 C. 



34: 67 17' 54 17' 55 o°. 9 C. 



The arctic-iehthyological literature often cited will illustrate sufficiently the geographical and 

 bathymetric distribution of the redfish. It is known besides from Greenland, from Iceland, from Spits- 

 bergen and Beeren Island, from the whole Norwegian coast, from the Danish shores (occasionally), 

 from the Irish and North-british coasts and from the eastern coast of North America to Cape Cod 

 (cfr. the enumeration of the stations in Oceanic Ichthyology- p. 261) in so far that it is not the -5". vi- 

 viparus, which here represents the type. I shall not here repeat what I have formerly said ( Vidensk. 

 Medd. Naturh. Foren. , 1876) of the difference between the true redfish and , Lysougereu (.5". viviparus) 

 may this be a distinct species or a fjord or shore variety of S. marinus -- but only remark, that 

 .S'. viviparus is found at the Faroe Islands, at the coast of Norway and Bohuslan and at the coast of 

 New England (specimens from Eastport and Gloucester sent me from the Smithsonian Institution), 

 but so far known not at the coast of Finmarken or of Great Britain. Small ones of S. marinus were 

 taken in the nets south and southwest of Iceland and in the open sea at Denmark Strait. 



Phobetor ventralis C. V. (tricuspis Rhdt.). 



This arctic sea-scorpion has not been brought home with the Ingolf , but it may nevertheless 

 reasonably be mentioned here. My remarks on its relation to Cottns pistilliger Pall. ( Yidenskab. Med- 

 delelser • 1876) have occasioned that it is named Gyrnnacanthus pistilliger ( Collet t: Norske Nord- 

 havs-Expedition , Fiskene, p. 26, and elsewhere). As I have said that there was no experience of its 

 being fished at a greater depth than 20 fathoms, I will add that we have obtained young ones of this 

 species in Baffin Strait at 50 fathoms, and that den norske Nordhavs-Expedition has obtained it 

 at the same depth at Spitsbergen. On Ryder's expedition to East-Greenland a specimen was taken 

 at the shore of Hold with Hope on very low water. For its other known geographical distribution 

 my remarks in Yidenskab. Meddel. Naturh. Foren. 1876, p. 365 may be consulted, also Collett 1. c. 

 p. 28. Also the works of Lilljeborg and Smitt may naturally be consulted for facts of this nature. 

 It is thus known from different East- and West-Greenland-localities and from places in Arctic 

 America; at Labrador and Nova Scotia, in the Fundy Bay, at Iceland, Finmarken, Novaja Semlia, in 

 the Behring Sea, at Kamschatka and — if no mistake — at Japan. In Gilbert's The ichthyological 

 collections of the U. S. Fish. C. S. Albatross , Report of the U. S. Commission of fish and fisheries 

 for 1893. an other species is mentioned from Unalaska, Gyrnnacanthus galeatus Bean, which is said to 

 lie nearer related to /'. iricuspis than to P. pistilliger . It is stated, it must be observed, by this 

 author in agreement with Diesel (Proceed. Un. St. Nat. Museum 1884, p. 250), that the North-atlantic 



