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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



between the eyes; 14 to 16 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body 

 more or less ctenoid; 62 to 70 in a lateral longitudinal series; 46 to 55 tubular scales 

 in upper lateral line, which nearly reaches the caudal, 6 to 13 in lower lateral line. 

 Dorsal VI 1 34-37 ; longest spine | to § length of head. Anal 32-34. Pectoral f to § length 

 of head, as long as or rather shorter than pelvics, which reach the anal. Caudal rounded ; 

 caudal peduncle as long as deep or rather deeper than long, its least depth \ to f length 

 of head. Body with irregular darker cross-bars, which may extend on to the base of 





Fig. 38. Notothenia longipes. x §. 



the soft dorsal ; spinous dorsal dusky, paler at base ; soft dorsal, caudal and anal margined 

 with white ; pectoral pale, with a dark vertical bar across the base ; pelvics yellowish. 



Hah. Straits of Magellan ; west coast of Patagonia. 



In addition to the above, there are 4 specimens (130-180 mm.) in the British Museum 

 collection from Port Famine and the Messier Channel. This species is difficult to 

 distinguish from N. zviltoni, especially in the younger stages, and it is possible that the 

 two forms may eventually prove to be identical. N. longipes has a rather more slender 

 body, larger eye, and somewhat longer pelvic fins. 



Notothenia squamiceps, Peters. 



Notothenia squamiceps, Peters, 1876, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, p. 387; Thompson, 1916, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus., l, p. 441, pi. iii, fig. 2. 

 ? Notothenia cornucola (part), Smitt, 1897, Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl, xxm, iv, No. 3, p. 12. 

 Notothenia sima, Lonnberg, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Siidpol.-Exped., v (6), p. 12, pi. i, fig. 1. 

 St. 53. 12. v. 26. Port Stanley, East Falkland Islands. Hulk of 'Great Britain'. Mussel rake, 

 0-2 m.: 3 specimens, 80-120 mm. 2 



St. 55. 16. v. 26. Entrance to Port Stanley, East Falkland Islands, 2 cables S 24 E of Navy Point. 

 Small beam trawl, 10-16 m.: 1 specimen, 90 mm. 



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

 Sparrow Point. Small beam trawl, io|-i6 m.: 3 specimens, 85-95 mm - 



Head more or less compressed. Depth of body 3§ to 4 in the length, length of head 

 2 1 to 3f . Snout as long as or rather longer than eye, diameter of which is 4^ to nearly 

 5 in length of head ; interorbital width 3! to 4^ (narrower in young). Jaws about equal 

 anteriorly ; maxillary extending to below anterior J or anterior \ of eye ; teeth in bands, 



1 I count 6 spines in all the specimens in the British Museum. 



2 With these specimens is a mass of eggs. 



