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4. Notothenia coriiceps Richardson. 



Notothenia coriiceps Rich., Ichthyology of the Erebus and Terror, p. 5, 

 pi. iii., figs. 1, 2. 

 Habitat. Coasts of Kerguelen's Land and of the Auckland Islands. 



5. Notothenia purpuriceps Richardson. 



Notothenia purpuriceps Rich., Ichthyology of Erebus and Terror, p. 7, pi. i.i., 

 figs. 3, 4. 

 Habitat. Kerguelen's Land. 



6. Notothenia cyanobrancha Richardson. 



Notothenia cyanobrancha Rich., Ichthyology of the Erebus and Terror, p. 

 7, pi. iv. 

 Habitat. Kerguelen's Land. 



. Notothenia sima Richardson. 



Nototht-nia sima Rich., Ichthyology of the Erebus and Terror, pi. xi., figs. 

 1,2. 

 Habitat. Falkland Islands. 



8. Notothenia tessellata Richardson. 



Notothenia tessellata Sick., Ichthyology of the Erebus and Terror, p. 19, 

 pi. xii., figs. 2, 3. 

 Habitat. Falkland Islands. 



9. Notothenia magellanica Richardson. 



Gadus magellanicus Forster apud Bloch, Systema Ichthyologiae, Schneid. 



ed., p. 11. 

 Notothenia magellanica Rich., Ichthyology of the Erebus and Terror, p. 9. 

 Lota magellanica Rich., op. cit., p. 61. 

 Habitat. In littoral sea-weed of Terra del Fuego. 



Richardson, having apparently forgotten that he had seen a drawing of this 

 species and identified it as a Notothenia, afterwards referred to it as Lota. 

 This and the following two species are very imperfectly known. 



10. Notothenia phoc;e Richardson. 



Notothenia phocse Rich., Ichthyology of the Erebus and Terror, p. 8. 

 Habitat. Antarctic Ocean (Lat. 65, Long. 155 W. of Greenwich.) 



11. Notothenia macrocephalus Giinther. 



Notothenia macrocephalus Giinther, Catalogue of the Acanthopterygian 

 Fishes, &c, vol. ii., p. 263. 

 Habitat. Falkland Islands. 



Genus Macronotothen Gill. 



Synonymy . 

 Notothenia? sp. Richardson. 

 Notothenia sp. Giinther. 



Nototheniince corporis portiore abdominale elongato, capite longiore ; pinna 

 dorsali prima radiis 7, validis, acutis et brevibus ; pinnis pectoralibus cauda- 

 lique truncatis. 



Body little robust, with a rather slender caudal peduncle, and with the 

 preanal region longer than the head. Scales small and ciliated. Head with 

 few scales, mostly naked, and above with the sculpture of the bones apparent. 

 Pores scarcely developed. Posterior nostrils subtubular. Teeth of the jaws 

 villiform, stouter and subulate in the outer row. First dorsal fin low, and 

 sustained by about seven short and pungent spines. Anal fin distant more 

 than the head's length from the ventrals. the distance being about equal to the 

 length of the fin itself. Caudal fin moderate, and obliquely subtruncated 

 behind. Ventral fins -with the fourth ray longest. 



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