494 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



spots on tlie rays, forming distinct transverse bands. 

 Br. 6; D. 59; P. 10 + 5; V. 1,3; A. 37; C. 13. 



A specimen from the Bonus Land coast was 6 in. long ; 

 its greatest height, nnder the pectorals, 4^ 1. ; its greatest 

 thickness 3 1. 



This fish, which had been previously taken on the coast 

 of North Greenland, has as yet only been discovered in one 

 place on the Scandinavian coasts, namely, on the Bonus 

 Land, Skargard, not far from Gothenburg, where, according 

 to Fries, it is only met with in October, November, and 

 December. They do not appear to go in shoals, for even 

 during the spawning season they are never taken in any 

 great numbers, but only one or two in each cast of the net. 

 They lie chiefly on the bottom, with the body stretched 

 out and the pectorals spread. Food : Crustacea and small 

 animals. Spawning season : the beginning of winter, when 

 the fish are in pairs. 



41. LUMPENUS NEBULOSUS, Fries". Spetssjertadt Langbarn. 



(Sharp-tailed.) 



Pectorals oval, with the upper and lower rays shortest, 

 and without any free rays ; tail lancet shaped ; rays 

 in the dorsal fin about 70, in the anal fin 50 ; more 

 slender than the last, which, it otherwise resembles, in 

 habits and appearance ; colour orange yellow, marbled 

 with brown ; fins reddish. 



Is met with sparingly along the west and north coasts 

 of Scandinavia ; has been several times taken in Christiana 

 Fjord, in Norway, and once on the Bohus Land coast, in 

 Sweden ; seems to become more common further north, and 

 is met with both in Iceland and Greenland. The spawning 

 season is about Christmas. The general length is 8 to 9 in., 

 sometimes 12 in. 



Nilsson remarks that of this fish they have on the west 

 coast of Scandinavia two distinct forms ; the one is met 

 with from the Bohus Land coast to the North Cape, the 

 other on the coast of Christiania ; but although they differ 

 in the size of the relative proportions of body, there scarcely 



