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St. 56. 16. v. 26. Sparrow Cove, Port William, East Falkland Islands, it cables N 50° E of 

 Sparrow Point. Small beam trawl, 10A-16 m.: 1 specimen, 65 mm. 



St. 222. 22-24. iv. 27. St Martin's Cove, Hermite Island, Cape Horn. Large rectangular net, 

 30-35 m.: 1 specimen, 74 mm. 



Depth of body 3! to 4! in the length, length of head 3 to 3§ . Snout as long as or a 

 little longer than eye, diameter of which is 3! (young) to 6 in length of head ; interorbital 

 width 4! to 6. Jaws equal anteriorly, maxillary extending to below anterior part or 

 middle of eye; teeth in 2 to 4 rows in each jaw, at least anteriorly; sometimes uniserial; 

 teeth of the outer row somewhat enlarged anteriorly ; usually a few scales behind eye 

 and on upper part of operculum ; upper surface of head quite naked ; scales between 

 occiput and dorsal fin very small and embedded in the skin; 11 or 12 gill-rakers on 

 lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body ctenoid; 47 to 55 in a lateral longitudinal 

 series; 36 to 42 tubular scales in upper lateral line, which ends below last ray or last 

 2 or 3 rays of dorsal, 4 to 1 2 in lower lateral line. Dorsal IV-VI (nearly always V) 3 1-34 ; 

 longest spine | to f length of head. Anal 27-31. Pectoral about f length of head, as 

 long as or a little longer than pelvics, which extend to vent or not as far. Caudal 

 rounded; caudal peduncle much deeper than long. Coloration usually rather dark, 

 the body being spotted or marbled with darker, sometimes with irregular cross-bars; 

 sometimes a broad, yellowish-white lateral band, which is more distinct on posterior 

 part of body ; cheek with two oblique pale stripes separated by a narrow dark streak, 

 the upper running backwards from the praeorbital, the lower from the mouth ; a dark 

 blotch or bar above these stripes, covering the hinder part of the cheek ; spinous dorsal 

 with a black blotch ; soft dorsal and anal usually dusky, but in the young these fins are 

 paler, and spotted and streaked with brown, or with oblique stripes ; both fins with narrow 

 pale margins; caudal with dark cross-bars, becoming indistinct in adults, and with a 

 pale hinder margin ; pectorals pale or somewhat dusky, a dark vertical bar across the 

 base; pelvics dusky. 



Hab. Patagonia; Falkland Islands; Straits of Magellan; southern Chile, northwards 

 to Chiloe; New Zealand (P). 1 



In addition to the above, Mr»Bennett has sent several specimens (35-125 mm.) from 

 Stanley, Falkland Islands, mostly taken under stones between tides or from the "kelp" 

 in March, April, July and November; as well as 6 others (105-130 mm.), collected 

 near the beach at New Island, West Falklands, by Mr Hamilton in February, 1934. 

 There are also 25 specimens (90-140 mm.) in the British Museum collection, from the 



1 The evidence for the occurrence of this species in New Zealand is very slender. There is a single small 

 specimen (60mm. long) in the British Museum collection labelled "New Zealand. Dr Richardson", but 

 there appears to be no record of such a fish in Richardson's works. The registered number of the specimen 

 is 60.3.19.66, and reference to the original register merely shows that it formed part of a large collection 

 received from India House. I am of the opinion that the locality given is an error. In his Catalogue of the 

 Fishes of New Zealand (1872), Hutton remarks that he did not see any specimens of N. cornucola, and he 

 apparently includes this species on the authority of Gunther. In 1873 (Trans. N. Zealand Inst., v, p. 262) 

 the same author says that specimens of N. cornucola "were brought by Mr Henry Travers from the Chatham 

 Islands, and I also saw it last lanuary in Dunedin". From his brief notes, it seems probable that he had 

 examples of TV. macrocephala, Gunther. 



