1898-1902. No. 25.] 



FISHES. 



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There are altogether 32 specimens, and thus this species is by far 

 the most abundantly represented in the collection, presumably because 

 this fish attaches itself firmly by suction to objects on the bottom, and 

 comes up with them in the dredge. 



The following are the dimensions of seven selected specimens, and 

 the number of rays: 



The above measurements, expressed as percentages of the total 

 length, are as follows: the length of the head from 23.8 to 26.9 per 

 cent, the height of the body above the middle of the suctorial disc 

 from 19 to 21.9 per cent, the length of the eye from 3 to 3.6 per cent, 

 and the length of the longest rays in the pectoral fin from 17.8 to 21.1 

 per cent. 



These figures exceed to no inconsiderable extent the limits that I 

 have given on a previous occasion for L. liparis 1 , but are within the 

 values that have since been found by N. KNiPowiTscn 2 . 



The number of rays in the dorsal fin (3943), in the anal fin (33-- 

 35), and in the caudal fin (1113), keep within the limits of the numbers 

 found for L. liparis. 



1 AD. S. JENSEN : The Fishes of East Greenland, p. 254. Medd. om Grenland, vol. 



XXIX, 1904. 

 - N. KNIPOWITSCH: Zur Ichthyologie des Eismeeres, p. 44. Memoires de 1'Acade- 



mie Imp. des Sciences St. Petersbourg, Ser. VIII, Cl. Phys.-Math., vol. XVIII, 



No. 5, 1907. 



