22 O. NORDGAARD " [1915 



Mgctophum glaciale Reinh. 



On the 21 /t 1909, dredging at Røberg on clay bottom, 300— 

 500 m., we brought up a specimen of this species. It was partly 

 digested, and must apparently have been vomited up by some 

 other fish which had been tåken in the dredge, either on the 

 bottom or while bauling in, this fish having afterwards made 

 its escape. The Mgctophum glac. was a ? 1. 5.8 cm., with eggs 

 apparently mature. Gullet and stomach, were, when preserved, 

 bluish black in colour. In tbe ventricle was a large copepod, 

 Euchæta norvegica $. While fishing with a prawn trawl in 

 Skjørnfjord, October 1910, threé specimens of Mgctophum gla- 

 ciale were brought up, 1. (3.5 — 7 cm. These were likewise par- 

 tially digested, i. e. ejected by some other fish during the haul. 

 In these specimens also, the gullet and stomach had a cha 

 racteristic bluish-black colour. One of them was a ? with small 

 eggs in the ovaries, and a pelagic amphipod, Parathemisto oblivia, 

 in the ventricle. 



Argentina sphgræna Lin. 

 Four specimens of this species (lesser silver smelt) length 

 11 — 18 cm., were tåken on the 23 /i 1908 at Orkedalsøren, 2 

 metres depth. 



Argentina silas Ascan. 

 This species (great silver smelt; Norw. : stavsild) is not 

 uncommon in the deeper parts of the fjord. I have seen many 

 of them from Munkholmdyb. A specimen tåken here in the 

 autumn of 1915 measured 50 cm., the largest size known for 

 this species in the Trondhjem Fjord. 



Ang u Ula anguilla Lin. 



A young eel, 7 cm. long, was tåken on the 1 U 1908 close in 

 to shore outside the Trondhjem Biol. Station at the surface of 

 tbe water. 



Casting with the eel seine at Hoøy, near Stenkjær, 2l /s 1900, 

 a young eel 1. 6.8 cm. was tåken. It appeared to have been 

 brought into contact with the digestive secretions of some other 

 fish, and had probably been vomited up during the haul. On 

 the 27 A 1912 a young eel 1. 7.5 cm. was tåken in the canal at 

 Trondhjem. 



Leptocephalus conger Lin. 



A conger eel measuring 163 cm. was tåken on the i h 1907 



in Snilfjorden, Hevne. This is doubtless the largest specimen 



known from the Trondhjem district. A somewhat smaller one 



was laken on the ; Vio 1909, 1. 131.5 cm., in Knarlagsund, Hittra. 



