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for these specimens. If therefore the statement of GILBERT & 
BURKE) as to 5 r. br. by Nectoliparis is not founded on skeleton 
material, this number, I should think, likewise has been arrived 
at by misinterpreting e. g. the last five r. br. or the last four 
r. br. + interop., the first two r. br. being overlooked small as 
they are and embedded in the the thick skin. 
On the skeleton of P. bathybii I may further make the 
following remarks. In the reduction of and in the form of the bones 
of the gill-cover this species shows close connection with the genus 
Liparis as will be seen from comparison between my text-figs. 
2 & 3 (p. 23) and the figures given by GARMAN (1892. PI. IX 
fig. 1, figs. 6—8. PI. X fig. A.) of the skeleton of Liparis 
pulchellus. My textfig. 4. (p. 23) represents the skeleton of the 
pectoral girdle and fin of P. bathybii. 
Rhodichthys regina (Coll.). 
rrrauerj Hansen” stat. 3, 7%41/5.1914..N 562° 15 -E 0-8, 
Voung fish trawl 2000 m. wire, pelagic and in bottom on 
abt. 1400 meters. 1 spec., total length 38, head 7.5, height 
at the beginning of the anal fin 3 mm. The specimen is 
not in good condition but it seems to have got the form 
of the adult. Colourless except for the black-violet peritoneum. 
Ås the spawning seems to take place in the summermonths 
this young specimen probably is from the preceding year. 
Menn Sårsnistats 102,1 *%s 1902: +1N4637 13% W..,60% 32. 
meat 173500. Temp <2; 04100 havspes, 2, totakl. 
250 mm. The ovaries large, right ovary containing 39 large 
eggs 3.2—4 mm. in diameter, evenly distributed all over 
the ovary and surrounded by many quite small eggs with 
a diameter up to I mm. COLLETT (1905) mentions that two 
specimens taken *%s 1902 (“M. S.” st. 36) had large ripe 
eggs 5—5.5 mm. in diameter, the one had 18 and 26 eggs, 
the other 26 and 33 in the left and right ovary respectively. 
One of these specimens is now in the Bg. M., the eggs now 
measuring 4.5—4.7 in diameter. As my specimen has been 
kept in alcohol for quite the same time as COLLETT’s, a 
comparison of the present size of the eggs is allowable. As 
therefore, my specimen has eggs in a somewhat greater 
number but of a lesser size than COLLETT’s, this must 
