496 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



forehead very sloping ; strong conical front teeth, and low 

 round molars ; tail distinct; no ventral fins; one dorsal. 



44. ANARRHICHAS LUPUS, L. Yanlig Hafkatt. The Wolf 



Fish. D. F. 



Is met with on all the Scandinavian coasts, far up 

 into Norway, never in shoals, but as they are caught in 

 the same places at all seasons of the year, there is no 

 reason to suppose they are migratory. Their usual 

 length here is from 3 to 4 ft. ; spawn in May and June. 

 Colour grey-brown; sides transversely banded with 

 dark brown ; a yellow ring round the pupil of the eye ; 

 dorsal 62 to 77 rays ; anal 43 to 45 ; all the fin rays 

 weak. 



2. Ventrals apart, very broad. Sjo Kockar, Sw. 

 Gen. CallionymuSj L. 



Body smooth, without scales ; preopercle spined ; two 

 dorsals ; ventrals irregular ; fins very large ; eyes close 

 together; gills hardly apparent, formed only by a little round 

 opening on each side of the neck ; the males are much hand- 

 somer than the females, and the shape of the fins is different. 



45. CALLIONYMUS LYEA, L. Yanlig Sjokock. The Gem- 



meous Dragonet. D. 



Head ablong ovate, measuring in a fish of 10 in. 



2-^ in. in length, and 1^- in. in breadth ; hinder dorsal 



~ covered with several horizontal bands of pale blue-green 



and yellow; body yellow, striped and spotted with 



blue ; the female yellow-brown spotted. Male : the 



front dorsal fin very high, the first ray being so long 



as to overlap the tail; yellow with blue longitudinal 



streaks. Female : the front dorsal fin lowest ; the 



web between the three last rays black. 



Nilsson considers the callionymus dranunculus, L., or 



sordid dragonet of British authors, as nothing more than 



the female of 0. lyra, L. The male is always the largest, 



often.measuring 10 to 1 2 in. P. 4+10; A. 10; Y. 1,5 ; P. 18; 



