88 



I.YO >DIi\\-K. 



Total length 



Length of the head 



Distance from snout to amis 

 Height over the anus 



89 

 12,5 



24.5 



5 



128 

 ,S 



35.5 



140 

 21 

 40 



184 



27.5 

 51 



Lycenchelys mureena Coll. is the European Lycode with which the present species might most 

 easily be confused. The following distinguishing characters however, are sufficient to separate them: 



/-. murcena is a more elongated species than L. sarsii\ the height over the anus being only 

 4,1—5° , of the total length. 



In L. murcena the dorsal fin begins further forward than in L. sarsii, its distance from the 

 snout being only 17,6—18,2% of the total length. 



L. tmircena has fewer ravs in the pectorals, namely 13 — 15. 



Lycodonus flagellicauda Jensen is likewise a more elongated species, the height over the anus 

 being only 3,4-4,4",, of the total length, and is immediately distinguished from the present bv its 

 particularly slender, whip-like tail. 



Lycenchelys kolthoffi n. sp. 



Tab. X, Fig. 2. Fig. 23 — 25 in text. 



1 901. Lycodes Verril Hi Smitt (nee Goode &: Bean), Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Bd. 27, Afd. IV, No. 4, 



p. 22, Fig 1-3. 



The height over the anus amounts to 4,9 — 5,2 °/ of the total length. The head, 

 whose length is 14,3—14,8°,,, of the total length, is tolerably broad and flat, the 



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Fig. 23 25. Head of Lycenchelys kolthoffi, seen from above, the side and below. X 2. 



trunk is approximately cylindrical; the tail is of a low, very elongated form, not 

 much compressed, except near the end. The anterior point of the lower j aw lies a 

 good bit behind the end of the upper jaw. 7 pits for the lateral line along the 

 upper jaw and under the eye. The distance between the snout and the anus is 



