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The coast of Gaaseland. 5—10 fms. 1891—92. Dredge. 

 1 specim. 



Кар Tobin. 57 fms. 21.8.1900. Beam-trawl. 2 specim. 



Hurry Inlet, at the mouth. 50 fms. 11.8.1900. Beam- 

 trawl. 3 specim. 



Forsblads Fjord, at the mouth. 14—3 fms. 28.8.1900. 

 Eel-seine. 1 specim. 



Forsblads Fjord. 90—50 fms. 30. 8. 1900. Beam-trawl. 

 5 specim. 



Forsblads Fjord. About 50 fms. 28. 8. 1900. Dredge. 

 I specim. 



Two specimens were taken by the German Germania-expe- 

 dition in Germania Havn in Sabine Ö, October 29*'' 1869, at 

 about 2 fathoms (Peters 1. с p. 171). Lönnberg (1. с. p. 13) 

 mentions it among the fishes taken by the Kol thoff-expe- 

 dition 1900, at the North-eastern Greenland. 



In the specimens before me the scale-spines of the lateral 

 line vary with regard to extension ; in some specimens they 

 stop on a level with the posterior end of the dorsal fin (or a 

 little before), in others they reach more or less near to the 

 base of the caudal fin. Osseous tubercles are not found in 

 any specimen at the base of the anal fin. The numbers of rays 

 are: D.^S— 9; D.^ 18— 20; A. 13— 16 ; P. 17— 19. The largest 

 female measures 75 mm., the largest male 60 mm. 



A female 75 mm. long caught at Кар Tobin, Aug. 2P*, 

 has in its ovaries about 130 immature eggs, measuring 2 mm. 

 in diameter. 



As is well known the male of this species has a highly 

 developed urogenital papilla. Professor F. A. S mitt (I.e.) thinks 

 moreover to have observed this secondary dilîerence in sex 

 that while the females have only one pair of occipital spines, 

 namely the ones in which the parietal crests end, a protube- 

 rance or jag is moreover generally developed on the front of 



