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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
Lycodes seminudus, Rhdt, I. c., p. 223; Ltkn, Vid. Meddel., 
1. c., p. 325; Coll., N. Nordh. Exped. , Zool., Fiske , p. 
113, tab. IV, fig. 28. 
Lycodes perspicillum , Kr., Overs. Vid. Selsk. Forh. Kbhvn 
1844, p. 140; Voy, Scand., Lap. cett. (Gaim.) tab. 7; 
Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. Ill, vol. I, p. 289. 
Lycodes mucosus, Richards., Last , Arct. Voy. (Belcher), vol. 2, 
p. 362, tab. XXVI; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. I, 
p. 465 (c??); Id., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 15, p. 112; 
Smitt, Gt. Intern. Fish. Exhib. London, 1883, Swed. Catal., 
p. 17 6. 
Lycodes Rossi, Mgrn, Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Forh. 1864, p. 516. 
Lycodes Turned, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. I, p. 463 
(9?); ibid., vol. IV, p. 244 ( Tuvnerir ); Turner, Contrib. 
Nat. Hist. Alaska, Arct. Ser. Pub]. Sign. Serv. U. S. Army, 
No. II, p. 93, tab. 4. 
by the Knight Errant Expedition at a depth of 608 
fathoms in Faroe Channel; and as the other finds extend 
all round the world in the extreme north, it is quite 
Fig. 148. Lycodes reticulatus, Rossii, twice the natural size. Taken 
in 1861, in Treurenberg Bay, Spitsbergen, at a depth of 5 fathoms. 
probable that some similar find may once be made in 
Scandinavian waters. The species seems to be capable 
of ascending fairly high towards the coast, for the Swed- 
Fig. 147. Lycodes reticulatus, Tumerii, '/ s of the natural size. From the entrance of Chatanga Bay (lat. 75° N.; long. 113“ 30’ E. Gr.), 
24th Aug., 1878; Vega Expedition. 
Lycodes Lutkenii , Coll., N. Nordh. Expecl., Fiske, p. 103, 
tab. Ill, fig. 25; Ltkn, Dijmph.-Togt. Zool. Bot. Udb., p. 
128, tab. XVI. 
? Lycodes pallidus , Ltkn, 1. c., p. 134, tab. XVII, figg. 1 — 3 
(nec Coll.). 
? Lycodes coccineus , Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, p. 
144 (= L. seminudus). 
From different regions in all parts of the Arctic Ocean 
a number of more or less diverging forms of this species 
have been described under different specific names. On 
the grounds already given, and if we take into account 
the great variations to which the majority of the specific 
characters hitherto adopted are demonstrably subject, 
these forms may well be comprised within one species, 
even if it should prove in the future that some one 
or other of them be constant. According to Gunther 
(Dee}) Sea Fishes , 1. c.), one of these forms was found 
ish Spitsbergen Expedition of 1861 took a young 
specimen 33 mm. long in 5 fathoms of water in Treu- 
renberg Bay, and the Vega Expedition found their 
specimen on a bottom of clay mixed with stones, at a 
depth of 15 fathoms in Chatanga Bay, where the bottom- 
temperature, however, was — 0‘8° Cels. (30‘5° Fahr.). 
The numerous specimens found by the Dijmphna Ex- 
pedition in Kara Sea were taken at depths of 46 — 106 
fathoms. One of the two specimens which Kroyer re- 
ceived from Greenland, and which were taken with a 
dredge by Captain IIolboll, was 67 mm. long and was 
caught in 90 fathoms of water, the other 40 mm. long 
and caught in 30 fathoms of water. Of the older spe- 
cimens which have come into the possession of Copen- 
hagen Museum at different periods since the time of 
Reinhardt, Kroyer writes: “They are generally found 
