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DISCOVERY REPORTS 



(occasionally IV) 34-37; longest spine not more than § length of head; posterior rays 

 of dorsal and anal not overlapping the caudal when laid back. Anal 32-35. Pectoral 

 f to § length of head, as long as or rather longer than pelvics, which do not usually 

 reach the anal. Caudal rounded ; caudal peduncle f to f as long as deep, its least depth 

 less than | length of head. Brownish or greyish-brown, with somewhat irregular darker 

 cross-bars on upper parts of sides, extending on to base of soft dorsal ; median fins 

 more or less dusky, the soft dorsal, caudal, and sometimes the anal with narrow pale 

 margins ; anal generally darker, often blackish ; pectorals yellowish ; pelvics more or 

 less dusky. 



Hab. Patagonian-Falklands region : in deeper water. 



This species, which is well distinguished from the shallow-water N. brevicauda, is 

 named after Mr E. R. Gunther of the 'Discovery' Expedition. 



Fig. 35. Notothenia guntheri. Holotype. 



Mr E. R. Gunther notes that in life the body is pale slaty grey, darker on back and 

 becoming white ventrally, the general shade never being as deep as in N. ramsayi. 

 The cross-bars, if present, are faint, and are sometimes green instead of grey. There 

 are three or four golden green bands on the side of the head, the first sloping downwards 

 from the maxillary, the others radiating from the praeorbital and eye, the third dilating 

 into a green flush on the angle of the operculum. The iris is of a paler tint than that 

 of N. ramsayi. The dorsal fins are bright emerald green, bordered with white, and the 

 anal fin deep grey. The caudal fin is olive varied by lemon yellow, sometimes margined 

 with orange, sometimes with brown and white. The pectoral is pale orange or salmon 

 pink, sometimes lemon yellow, the base of the fin quite white. The pelvic is deep grey. 

 The belly, which has been shaded in the sketch, should be white. 



Notothenia ramsayi, Regan (Plate I, fig. 2). 



Notothenia ramsayi, Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 267, pi. vii, fig. 1; Thompson, 

 1916, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., l, p. 443. 

 St. 51. 4. v. 26. Off Eddystone Rock, East Falkland Islands. Large otter trawl, 105-115111.: 

 35 specimens, 60-110 mm. 



St. WS 72. 5. iii. 27. 51 07' S, 57 34' W. Commercial otter trawl, 79 m.: 4 specimens, no- 

 135 mm. 



St. WS 73. 6. iii. 27. 5i°oi'S, 58 54' W. Commercial otter trawl, 121m.: 40 specimens, 



55- 2 35 mm - 



