HARPAGIFERIDAE 



SI 



Caudal a little rounded. Body faintly spotted and marbled with darker; a more distinct 

 dark blotch on either side of base of anterior part of soft dorsal ; upper surface of head 

 without markings ; dorsals, caudal and pectorals with series of dark spots on the rays. 



Hab. Queen Mary Land; South Victoria Land. 



The type of the species, 290 mm. in total length, is from the Ross Sea, 74° 25' S, 

 179° 3' E, at a depth of 295 metres. The 'Aurora' obtained a single example, 240 mm. 

 in length, from off Drygalski Island at a depth of 112 metres. 



Pogonophryne marmoratus, sp.n. 



? Artedidraco skottsbergi, Lonnberg, 1905, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Siidpol.-Exped., v (6), pi. ii, 



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 St. 1948. 4.1.37. 60° 49-4' S, 52°4o'W. Rectangular dredge, with Russell net, 490-610 m.: 



I male specimen, 175 mm. Holotype. 



Closely related to P. scotti, but head about if times as long as broad; interorbital 

 width more than 7 in length of head ; barbel a little longer than diameter of eye, papil- 

 lose, with terminal expansion. Dorsal II, 25. Anal 16. Upper surface and sides of 

 head and body mottled and spotted with purplish brown ; lower parts of body mainly 

 blackish ; soft dorsal and pectorals with series of dark spots, sometimes tending to form 

 irregular bars; an irregular dark patch covering part of caudal; anal pale; inner rays 

 of pelvics dusky. 



Fig. 31. Pogonophryne marmoratus. Holotype. xj. 



Hab. Near the South Shetland Islands. 



Regan [1914, Rep. Brit. Antarct. (' Terra Nova') Exped. 1910, Zool. i (i), p. 9] has 

 suggested that the coloured drawing of a fish from the Bransfield Straits, 849 metres, 

 reproduced by Lonnberg as Artedidraco skottsbergi, "seems rather to represent a 



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