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patches, both on the side of the body, and also on the fins. 

 The right eye almost medially in the dorso-ventral plane; devel- 

 opment of the spines on gillcover here farther advanced. 



On the lh /i 1913, a young specimen of Bothus was tåken 

 in an eel seine in Aavikfjord, Aasen. Length 29 mm. (pl. II, 

 fig. 10). Left side here considerable more pigmented than the 

 right. The right eye turned slightly more to the left than in 

 the larger of the two specimens from Tautra; the posterior mar 

 gin partly hidden by a triangular flap of the fore-end of the 

 dorsal fin, which lay lowards the left. 



I presume these to turbot f ry, not brill, the pigment in the 

 latter at a length of abl. 20 mm. being stated as set in bands. 

 The brill, moreover, has hitherto been lacking among the known 

 fish fauna of Trondhjem Fjord. This is now, as we shall 

 immediately see, no longer the case, but we may nevertheless 

 assert that the brill is of extremely rare occurrence in the 

 actual waters of the Trondhjem Fjord. 



Bothus rhombus Lin. 

 The brill (Norw: glathvarr or slethvarr) is new to the fauna 

 of the fjord. Collett states in his last report, that the Biolo- 

 gical Station at Bergen received in 1899 a specimen from Stat 

 land, this being »the most northerly point from which it has 

 been recorded with certainty«. The northern limit of occurrenee 

 can now be extended to the Trondhjem Fjord. On the ' 2 h 1915 

 Johan L. Johnsen, off Hangran at Byneset, fishing with a east 

 net as used for sea trout, in about 5 metres of water, caught a 

 brill, d", 1. 54.5 cm., with sperma fluid (exuding). Colour on the 

 eye side greyish brown, with here and there yellowish white 

 spots. The blind side white all over. Scales distinctly visible. 

 Bemains of fish in the ventricle. 



Lepidorhombus megastoma Don. 

 This species (the whiff; Norw. : glasflyndre) is doubtless of 

 very rare occurrence in the fjord; I have never as yet come 

 across a specimen. V. Storm, in his Beport for 1910, states 

 that on the 17th of May that year, he obtained a specimen 

 53 cm. long in the fish market at Trondhjem. 



Scopthalmus noruegicus Gunth. 

 Two specimens of this species (Norway topknot; Norw.: 

 smaahvarr) were tåken in Borgenfjord, while dredging, in Octo- 

 ber 1907. They were as follows: 

 ' 2 /io 1907. Fagernes, Borgenfj. 1 spee. 1. 7.5 cm. 

 3 /io 1907. Between Bolsøya and Klokkerskjeret, 1 spee. 1. 7.8 cm. 



