271 



with the measurements given by Collett (1. с p. 135) for his 

 specimens. 



Total-length 251 mm. 



Length of head 50 » 



Horizontal diameter of eye 8.5 « 



Length of snout 15 » 



Length of postorbital part of head . . . 26.2 » 



Height of trunk above anus 50 » 



From end of snout to 1«' dorsal 47 » 



.. .. » .. « 2^л « 76 » 



■> » « « « anus 115 » 



From anus to end of caudal 138 » 



Height of caudal peduncle 13.75 » 



The interorbital width 10.75 > 



Length of pectoral 36.5 » 



» » ventral 47 » 



» » Is' rav of 1st dorsal 15.5 » 



Macruridæ. 

 Macrurus fabricii Sundevall. 



A female specimen 640 mm. long of this deep-sea fish 

 was brought to the surface by a Crested Seal [Cystophora cri- 

 stata) on Sept. 30*^ 1901, off the mouth of Sermilik close to 

 Orsuluviak S. of Tasiusak. Mag. sc. Chr. Kruuse who wintered 

 that year at Angmagsalik took care of the fish, and brought it 

 to the Zoological Museum here. 



Pleuronectidæ. 



Hippoglossiis (Platysomatichtliys) hijypoglossoides Walbaum. 



Mag. sc. С. Kruuse brought home 3 small specimens 



(150 — 220 mm.) from Kingak (Angmagsivik) in Angmagsalik Fjord. 



They were harpooned with arrow by the Greenlanders on June 



19*'' 1902, in small inlets on the promontory which forms the 



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