I.YO HMX.rv 



The variety squamiventer was taken by the Ingolf Expedition of [896 east from Iceland 

 (St. 105, 104, 101), where the depths were 537 957 fathoms and the bottom-temperature o°7 to 1 1 C. 

 (5 specimens); north from the Fseroe Isles (St. 1411 at 679 fathoms and bottom-temperature 

 — o°6C. ( 1 specimen); and by the Michael Sars in 1902 off the Shetland-Norway Slope (63 

 7' NX. 1° 38' EX.), where the depth was 650 fathoms and bottom-temperature under C. (6 specimens). 



L. pallidns lives in polar waters; in southern latitudes therefore, it is first met with at great 

 depths (300 fathoms and deeper) but in high arctic seas it comes up quite to the sublittoral zone. 



Lycodes platyrhinus Jensen. 



Tab. VI. fig. 2. Figs.3— 5 in text. 



1898. Lycodes frigidus Liitken, The Danish Ingolf Expedition, II, 1, p. 20 (partim). 

 1901. L. platyrhinus Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn. p. 208. 



Bodv zoarciform, yet relatively more elongated than in most other species of 

 the genus Lycodes, the height over the anus being only 8,2% of the total length; 

 the length of the head is 19,9",, of the same length, the distance between the snout 

 and the anus 37 " , , . The colour is uniforml y o f a r u d d y b r o w n- g ray. Scales a r e 

 wanting. Lateral line double, ventral and mediolateral, most distinct in its course 

 towards the anus. The size (of the single specimen) 148,5 mm. 



D. 99. A. S2. P. 1 5. 



Distribution. Between Jan Ma yen and Iceland, 1010 fathoms. 



Only one specimen of this species, which was placed by Lutken with L. frigidus. is at hand 

 for investigation; it is a male. 



The most important proportions are the following: 



Total length r 48>5 nnn - 



Length of the head 29,5 



Distance between snout and anus. . 55 



Height over the anus 12,25 ~ 



The form of the bodv is more slender than in most other species of the genus Lycodes, the 

 height over the anus being only 8,2 " ,, of the total length. On the trunk the height is almost uniform 

 and the tail tapers very gradually down to the tip. The trunk is somewhat compressed, its thickness 

 being i'/ 2 times in the height, and the tail becomes gradually more and more compressed. The anus 

 lies a little behind the termination of the anterior third of the body, the distauce between the snout 

 and the anus being 37% of the total length. 



The head is broad, flat in front and tolerably short, its leugth being [9,9 °/ of the total 

 length. The height over the crown is somewhat greater than the breadth at the .same place, but 

 further forward the head becomes very low without at the same time losing in breadth; the end oi 

 the snout is blunt, but low, seen from above it is broadly rounded oil. The eyes are small, so that 

 their longitudinal diameter is scarcely r / 9 th of the total length of the head; they are placed high up. 

 on the verv margin of the forehead, but at a fairly clear distance from one another amounting to quite one 



