4B6 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



32. CARANX TRACHURUS, Cuv. Tagg Mackrill. The Horse 



Mackerel. D. 



Is met with, on most of the south-west coasts, from 

 the Sound probably up to Bergen, in Norway. It is 

 hardly known for certain whether they spawn in these 

 seas., although small specimens of four to five inches long 

 are frequently taken here in autumn. 

 The colour is not so rich as in the mackerel,, and the 

 back is much more arched ; a black spot on the opercle. 

 D. 8 + 1,32; P. 21; V. 1,5; A. 2+1,28; C. 17. 



Gen. Lampris, Cuv. 



One single dorsal very high in front ; anal also elevated, 

 the first ray of the latter spinous ; body oval, compressed ; 

 no teeth ; colours brilliant in the extreme, blue, purple, and 

 gold ; body over all covered with large oval silver spots ; 

 ventrals placed far back on the belly ; root of the tail very 

 thin ; lateral line much curved ; tail broad, deeply cloven ; 

 height of the body equal to more than one half of the length. 

 Perhaps the most beautiful of all sea fish. 

 83. LAMPRIS GUTTATUS, Eetz. Glanfisk. The Opan or 



King Fish. D. 



Although considered strictly a southern species, this 

 gorgeous fish has been, time out of mind, known all 

 along the north and west coasts of Norway by the name 

 of the "lase storje," or large salmon. 

 It has occasionally been taken on other Scandinavian 

 coasts, from the very south even up to the North Cape, but 

 never in the Baltic or in Greenland, or on the shores east of 

 the North Cape. The stuffed specimen in the Lund museum 

 from Christiania is three feet long. 



I have had the pleasure of tasting this fish ; the flesh was 

 firm, white, and remarkably good. Br. 6 ; D. 50 ; P. 20 ; V. 

 14; A. 38; C. 20. 



Fam. 7. TENIOIDE'I, Cuv. Riband Fishes. 



Body elongated and very much compressed, like a 

 riband ; scales very small ; one long dorsal ; no anal fin. 



