152 GADIDJE. 



northern varieties appearing to be well known, which are 

 each distinguished there by a particular term referring to 

 peculiarities in the colouring. It spawns in March and 

 April. 



The last published description of this species that I am 

 acquainted with, and most likely to have been taken from 

 the fish itself, is that by M. Nilsson, before referred to ; and 

 it is here given rather than multiply in print any well-known 

 description of older date. I have never seen a specimen of 

 the fish. 



" Body elongated, subventricose ; head, back, and sides, 

 more or less spotted ; lateral line white, bent ; tail square ; 

 upper jaw much the longer ; snout prominent, sharp ; under 

 jaw only half as long as the head, and ending on a line half- 

 way between the nose and the eye." 



The fin-rays in number are 



D. 15. 18. 20. : P. 20 : V. 6 : A. 19. 18. : C. 24. 

 Length from twelve to twenty-four inclir<. 



