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the average length for adult specimens is 60 — 70 mm., and the 

 maximum length 98 mm. 



Discoboli. 

 Cyclopterus li(mpus Linné. 



G. Holm mentions «Lump-sucker» among the fishes which 

 are found at Angmagsalik (1. с p. 54), and the same thing was 

 told Søren Jensen during his stay at Angmagsalik 1900. More- 

 over mag. sc. C.Kruuse who has lately returned after a year's 

 stay at Angmagsalik, tells me that our ordinary Lump-sucker is 

 found there, though very rarely ; he had however not seen it him- 

 self, but both Mr. J. Petersen (Commercial-manager), and the 

 natives had described it so minutely that no doubt was possible. 

 They stated that the length of it is somewhat over one foot. 



Dr. 0. Norden skiöld, who was the geologist of the 

 Amdrup-Hartz expedition, found on August 26*"^ 1900 by 

 Fleming Inlet a well preserved skin of a Lump-sucker about 

 270 mm. long which had drifted ashore. The specimen has 

 not been dried, as skin and fins are perfectly fresh. Eyes 

 and jaws are taken away, likewise the contents of the head, 

 and of the front part of the body both the soft parts and 

 skeleton are missing. It looks as if a bird had pecked out 

 eyes and jaws, and drawn out the contents through the holes 

 produced in this way. This specimen has been a perfectly 

 typical one, with the following numbers of rays: D.'^ \-\-\0] 

 A. 1 +10; P. 20. 



The Kolt hoff- expedition found a dead С lumpus on the 

 shore of Mackenzie Bay (north of Franz Joseph's Fjord) on 

 Aug. 9*^^ 1900 (Kolthoff: Till Spetsbergen och Nordöstra Grön- 

 land, Stockholm 1901, p. l63)^). 



') Kolthoff adds: «another specimen Is said to have been seen swimming 

 round the ship», but as a certain identification is wanting I do not take 

 this into consideration. 



