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275 fathoms, bottom-temperature -|- 4 r 88 C, 2 specimens (371— 374 mm); Channel between Shet- 

 land and the Faeroes (6o° 19' X.L. 5" 39' W.L.), depth 620 fathoms, bottom-temperature - o°i5 C, 

 1 young specimen (188mm.) 1 ); east from the Faeroes (62 26' N.L. 4 (o/W.L.), depth 22S fathoms, 

 1 specimen (552mm.) 2 ); between the Faeroes and Iceland (62 59' N.L. io°37' W.L.), depth 251 

 fathoms, bottom-temperature -|- 3 24 C, 1 specimen (521 mm.); east from Iceland (64 58' N.L. 11 

 12'W.L.), depth 300 fathoms, bottom-temperature - o 38 C, 1 specimen (383111111.). 



Judging from these captures, I .. esmarkii. which was hitherto considered as a species occurring 

 locally at Finmark, has probably a continuous distribution over the deeper parts of the coastal plateau 

 of the Northern Ocean and its shelving sides ( slopes j, from Bear Island and Finmark down to Stat, 

 thence towards Shetland and the east banks of the Faeroes, north of the Faeroes and along the br< 

 ridge from the Foeroe Isles to the Iceland plateau. Exceptionally, it may venture over the sloping 

 banks of the ocean down into the polar depths. 



Again, it occurs on the east coast of North America, as Collett has identified 4 fully grown 

 specimens from off the coast of Nova Scotia '■■). 



Lycodes eudipleurostictus Jensen. 



Tab. Ill, Fig. I a, b. 



1878. Lycodes vahlii Collett, Fiske indsamlede under den norske Nordhavs-Expeditions 2 forste Togter, 

 1876 og 1877; Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Chria. 1878, No. 4. p. n (partim). 



1878. L. vahlii Collett, Fiske fra Nordhavs-Expeditionens sidste Togt, Soninieren 1S7S; Forh. Vidensk. 

 Selsk. Chria. 1878, No. 14, p. 54 (partim). 



1879. /.. vahlii Collett, Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 1875—78; Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Chria. 

 1879, No. 1, p. 62 (partim). 



1880. L. esmarkii Collett, The Norw. North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishes, p. 84 (partim ), PI. II, Fig. 19—21. 

 1891. L.esmarkii Lilljeborg, Sveriges och Norges Fiskar, II, p. 6 (partim). 



1895. L. vahlii Smitt, Skandinaviens Fiskar, II, p. 613 (partim). 



1898. L. Esmarkii Liitken, The Danish Ingolf Expedition, II, 1, p. 21. 



1901. L.esmarki Knipowitsch, Ann. Musee zool. l'Acad. Imp. St. Petersbourg, T. VI, p. 21. 



1901. L. Vahliiiorma. pallida Smitt, P.ih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. 4, p. 24 (pa rti 111 ), No. 13. 



1901. L. Vahlii typica .Smitt, ibid. p. 26 (partim), No. 40, 41 6c 42. 



1901. L. eudipleurostictus Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn. p. 206. 



The height over the anus amounts to 8,1- 13,6%, the length of the head to 

 19,8—24,3% of the total length. The tail is distinctly longer than the head and 

 trunk together, as the distance between the snout and the anus is 36,7 -41,4% ol 

 the total length. The posterior margin of the pectoral is indented. Colouration 



'1 Gunther (Chall. Exped. Deep-Sea Fishes, tSS7, p. 77) also refers -' specimens from the Faroe CI 3 fathoms, 



to this species, but they perhaps belong to L. eudipletirosticlus mihi which has been confused with L. esma 

 ) This specimen was taken on a line, the other specimens in tin- English trawl. 



.1 Goode ami Bean refer also to this species a number of specimens, taken .it 39 | ; l-' 1.; N.L. and 62 

 71 \i' W.I... 224 420 fathoms (Oceanic Ichthyology-, [89 (), bul one cannot tell if the determination is correct 



The [ngolf Expedition. II 4 5 



