FISHES. 477 



anus lies in the hinder division of the body, and the fins 

 are shorter. 



Gen. Aspidophorus . 



Head mailed, depressed; spines on the nose; body 

 covered with polygonal scaly plates; two dorsals, close 

 together. 



18. ASPIDOPHOEUS CATAPHKACTUS, Nilss. Yanlig Botten Mus. 



The Armed Bull-head. D. F. 



Is met with, according to Nilsson, on all the Scandi- 

 navian shores, from the Cattegat up to Waranger Fjord, 

 near the North Cape ; but is not included inWidigren's 

 list of the fishes of Lulea Lapland. Length about 7 in. 

 Spawns in the end of April. Colour brown-grey, spotted 

 on the sides ; belly white ; fins speckled. Length 5 in. 

 to 7 in. D. 57 ; P. 15 ; V. 1,2 ; A. 7. 



Gen. Sebastes, Cuv. 



All large sea-fish ; shaped like the perch ; head and body 

 compressed ; a few small spines ; no tubercles on the back 

 of the head, which is scaly ; eye very large ; opercle and 

 preopercle spinous. One long dorsal ; the front division 

 spinous ; the latter shorter and higher than the other, with 

 weak rays. 



19. SEBASTES NORVEGICUS, Cuv. Norsk Kung Fisk. The 



Bergylt. D. F. 



Is taken occasionally on the coasts of Norrland, in 

 Waranger Fjord, three feet in length. Its principal 

 home appears to be within the Polar circle, and it rarely 

 comes south, although small specimens are occasionally 

 taken both in the Cattegat and Sound. Nilsson re- 

 marks that it is not improbable that the larger form of 

 bergylt, which is taken off Lofoden, 3 ft. long, and 

 there called " stor vern," may probably prove to be a 

 distinct species. It is supposed here that an actual 

 copulation takes place between the two sexes, and that 

 the mother brings forth living young in June, which 



