FISHES. 551 



108. ARGENTINA HEBKIDICA, Yarr. Mindre Silfver Fisk. 



The Hebridal Argentine. 



Rarely exceeds 7 in.; the body more lengthened 

 than the last ; the head and eye smaller. Fin rays : P. 

 13 14; A. 12 13 ; vertebras 52 ; colour silvery, tinged 

 with brown. 



Has as yet only been caught in one place off the Scan- 

 dinavian coast, in Christiania Fjord, where it is taken 

 not unfrequently at a depth of twelve to fifteen fathoms, 

 and is known by the name of ' ' stromsild " has a cucumber 

 scent, like the smelt. It is not known when they spawn, 

 but a specimen of eight inches, taken in June, was full 

 of roe. 



Gen. Scopelus, Cuv. 



Small sea fish, something in the shape of the minnow, 

 but the under jaw is very projecting, the eye very large, and 

 they may always be known by the row of silvery spots along 

 the sides and belly ; the adipose fin is scarcely perceptible, 

 being nothing more than a long low skin lobe over the 

 hinder division of the anal fin ; silvery scales, large, round, 

 thin, and easily peel off. 



109. SCOPELUS BOREALIS, Nilss. Nordisk Prick Fisk. The 



Pearl Side. 



Length about 3 in. Is rare in these seas, but is 

 occasionally taken in the Cattegat and off the west coast 

 of Norway ; pectorals under the edge of the subopercle ; 

 between the ventrals and gills a row of twelve spots; 

 head much shorter than the greatest height of the body. 

 Fin rays as in the last. 



110. SCOPELUS GLACIALIS, Reinh. Strom's Prick Fisk. 



Described by Strom as " en liden rar fisk." Head no 

 longer than the greatest height of body ; ventrals exactly 

 half way between the point of the nose and the end of 

 the anal fin ; between them and the gills a row of five 

 spots; pectorals behind the posterior edge of the 

 opercle ; length 2-- to 3^- in. ; colour greenish brown ; 

 sides silvery. D. 10; A. 17; P. 15 ; V. 8. 



