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both jaws, those of the outer row a little enlarged anteriorly ; a few scales behind the 

 eye and on the upper part of the operculum ; head otherwise naked ; 8 to 1 1 gill-rakers 

 on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body ctenoid ; 46 to 50 in a lateral longitudinal 

 series; 39 to 41 tubular scales in upper lateral line, which ends below or in advance of 

 last ray of dorsal, 4 to 11 in lower lateral line. Dorsal VI 31-33; longest spine § to § 

 length of head. Anal 30-32. Pectoral § to f length of head, as long as or a little shorter 

 than pelvics, which extend to vent or beyond. Caudal rounded; caudal peduncle 



Fig. 42. Notothenia elegans. x §. 



somewhat deeper than long. Sides of body with large dark spots or irregular cross-bars ; 

 usually a narrow pale streak running along side below the lateral line; a pale oblique 

 stripe, bordered with darker, sometimes present on the head ; mucous pores on head 

 often black ; spinous dorsal pinkish at its extremity ; soft dorsal with series of small 

 dark spots, sometimes united to form longitudinal stripes ; caudal with 2 or 3 indistinct 

 cross-bars ; anal, pectoral and pelvics uniformly pale. 



Hab. Patagonian-Falklands region ; Straits of Magellan. 



In addition to the above, there are 2 specimens (both 95 mm. long) in the British 

 Museum collection — types of the species. 



Notothenia macrocephala, Giinther. 



? Gadus magellanicus, Schneider [ex Forster MS.], 1801, in Bloch, Syst. Ichtli., p. 10. 



? Notothenia magellanica, Richardson, 1844, Zool. 'Erebus' and ' Terror', Fishes, p. 9. 



Notothenia macrocephala, Giinther, i860, Cat. Fish., II, p. 263; Cunningham, 1871, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. London, xxvn, p. 470; Vaillant, 1888, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Zool., Poiss., p. 27, 

 pi. iii, fig. 2; Perugia, 1891, Ann. Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) x [xxx], p. 618; Smitt, 

 1897, Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. HandL, xxin, iv, No. 3, p. 9, pi. iii, figs. 23-26; Delfin, 1901, Cat. 

 Peces Chile, p. 84; Boulenger, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi, p. 53; Boulenger, 1902, 

 'Southern Cross', Pisces, p. 184; Steindachner, 1903, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. VI, p. 207; 

 Lonnberg, 1907, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr., Fische, p. 10; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. 

 Edinb., xlix, p. 277; Hussakof, 1914, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxm, p. 89; Wake, 

 1916, Sci. Rep. Australas. Antarct. Exped., Ser. C, III (1), p. 66, pi. iii, fig. 2, text-fig. 16; 

 Thompson, 1916, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., L, p. 431 ; Phillipps, 1927, N. Zealand Mar. Dept. 

 Fish. Bull., i, p. 44; Fowler, 1927, Proc. Acad. N.S. Philad., lxxviii, p. 283. 



? Notothenia comucola, Hutton, 1873, Trans. N. Zealand Inst., v, p. 262. 



Notothenia maoriensis, Haast, 1873, t.c, p. 276, pi. xvi. 



Notothenia angustata, Hutton, 1875, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi, p. 315; Hutton, 1876, Trans. 

 N. Zealand Inst., will, p. 213. 



