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concerning the fresh fish: almost without colour, a little bluish gray in tone; the top of the head 

 slightly reddish; the side of the trunk and belly (over the peritoneum) dark blue . 



An unpaired sexual organ is present. No pyloric appendages to be seen! 



Distribution. The single specimen taken in 1896 by the Ingolf Expedition 1 ) was obtained 

 S.W. from Iceland, were the depth was 799 fathoms and the bottom-temperature 4 5 C. (St 



This new species does not seem to stand anyway near any of the other Lycodes; L.atlanticus 

 mihi, to which one might be inclined to relegate it as the young, has a relativelv greater head and 

 more numerous rays in the pectorals (23). 



Lycodes rossi Malmgren. 

 Tab. VII, Fig. 1 a, b, c, d, e, f, g. 



iS28.(?) B/etwius polaris Ross (vix Sabine) in Parry, Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, p. 200. 

 1864. Lycodes rossi Malmgren, Om Spetsbergens Fiskfauna; Ofvers. Kgl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Forhaudl, p. 516. ] 

 1880. L. rossi Collett, The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, Fishes, p. 106. 

 '886. L. retiailatits Rhdt. (?) jun., Liitken, Kara-Havets Fiske; Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske 



Udbytte, p. 136, Tab. N VI I, Fig. 4— 5. 

 :886. L. Lutkenii Liitken, ibid. p. 128 (partim), Tab. XVI, Fig. 1 (nee F"ig. 2 -6). 

 1895. L. reticulatus Smitt, Skandinaviens Fiskar, II, p. 612 (partim), Fig. 14S. 

 1899. L. rossi Collett, Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. Chria., No. 6, p. 8 (cum fig.). 



1901. L. reticulatus Reinh. (?), Knijiowitsch, Ann. Musee Zool. l'Acad. Imp.'St. Petersbourg, T. VI. p. 25. 

 1901. L. retiailatits forma reticulata Smitt, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. |. p. ^ 



(partim), No. 23 & 27. 

 1901. L. reticulatus forma seminuda Smitt, ibid. p. 32 (partim), No. 16. 

 1901. L. celatus Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. KLbhvn., p. 208. 

 1901. L. rossii Jensen, ibid. p. 213 (partim). 



Of the total length the height over the anus is (8,5) 9,4—11,7°,,, the length of 

 the head 22,4 -25,3%, the longitudinal diameter of the eye 3,6 — 4%, the distance 

 between the snout and the anus 43,1 49,3" ,,, the length of the pectorals 13,1 — 13,6 

 The young have dark cross-bands on a light ground, the bands relatively light in 

 the centre, but with a very dark margin (on the dorsal fin, blackish); a light baud 

 across the neck. In larger individuals the dark (6— IO) cross-bands 011 the side oi 

 the body are partly confluent below, so that the light interspaces partly show 

 as saddle-shaped markings from the free edge of the dorsal fin down towards 

 the lateral line; the light neck-band frequently divides up into several spots. The 

 scaly covering in the older individuals reaches forward to a point, which lies almost 

 under the beginning of the dorsal fin, and is wedge-shaped in front so thai the 



') The specimen was overlooked and not included in The Ichthyological Results 



