FISHES. 499 



North. Sea, but never in the Baltic. Spawns in the summer. 

 D. 7 + 1,10 ; A. 1,10 ; P. 17 ; Y. 1,4 + 1,4. 



51. G. NILSONII, Dub. and Kor. Tva Stralig Smorbult. 



Tail rounded in the middle ; dorsals wide apart ; fin 



rays D. 2 + 20; P. 30; A. 20; C. 31. Sides covered 



with 28 to 30 deep muscular furrows. 



Several examples of this new species have been taken off 



the west coast of Norway, both in the summer and winter, 



in thirty fathoms depth. None were two inches long, and 



all transparent, and might have been nothing more than 



young fish of some larger species ; but this seems hardly 



probable when we compare the number of fin rays with all 



the other known species. 



52. G-. STUVITZII, Dub and Kor. Fern Stralig Smorbult. 



The White Goby (?). 

 Fin rays : D. 5 + 12 ; P. 15 ; A. 14. 

 Resembles the white goby in all respects, save that the 

 hindmost rays in the back dorsal and anal fins gradually 

 decrease in length behind, and when laid down do not reach 

 half way to the root of the tail fin. Has been caught off 

 Bergen in December, but all were young fish, scarcely two 

 inches long. 



DISCOBOLI. Sucking Fish. 



4. Ventrals united, forming a concave disk or sucker beneath 

 the naked body. Sug Fiskar, Sw. 



Gen. Cyclopterus, L. 



Body thick and solid, with a fatty ridge on the top of the 

 back ; skin rough, covered with knotty warts ; pectorals 

 large, united under the throat ; the first dorsal scarcely per- 

 ceptible. 



53. CTCLOPTEEQS LUMPUS, L. Stenbit. The Lump 



Sucker. Red Lump (male), Blue Lump (female). 

 F. D. 

 The northern examples of this fish rarely exceed 1 ft. 



