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to make this identification because I have only one specimen which is quite young. 

 The name J/, holotracliys was also given and the diagnose based on a single speci- 

 men so that the possible variation of the species has not been ascertained. The 

 specimen described by GÜNTHER was found "East of the mouth of Rio de la Plata" 

 in a depth of 600 fathoms by the Challenger Expedition. 



12. Myxine australis JenyNS. 



Several specimens from Ushuaia, depth 30 m., shells and gravel. 20th of March 

 1902. 



The conditions of this locality proves that M. australis is less exclusively con- 

 fined to muddv bottom. 



At, and in the mouth of, a fresh water rivulet emptying into Tekenika Bay, Tierra 

 del Fuego, partly in brackish, but partly also in fresh water, a kind of large fishes 

 were caught in a fair number by seining. The water was so shallow that the mem- 

 bers of the fishing party could manage the small seine wading in the water with 

 top boots. From 10 to 80 fishes could be caught at one time and as they were 

 rather large, 60 to 70 cm. in average, this kind of fishing caused a great excitement 

 among the crew. It was certainly also a lively scene to see the great fishes and 

 the sailors splashing in the shallow water. The people residing at Tekenika Bay, 

 and two falklanders hired as sailors termed these fishes "mullet", but they were 

 certainly no members of the genus Mugil as they had a long dorsal fin. Their 

 colour was light greyish above shading into whitish or silvery below. Mr. Anders- 

 SON thought that they resembled, to some extent, a Merhiccius, but the specimens 

 preserved were lost, among so many other valuable collections, with the sinking vessel. 

 It is not easy to express any opinion about them now, but just because the zoo- 

 logist of the expedition was sure about their identification when the preserved ma- 

 terial had been carried home, as he certainly hoped it should be, he made no further 

 examination of, or notes about them as his time was much occupied with such a 

 great number of other things. 



A similar fishing was also done at Port Albemarle, Falkland Islands, although 

 not quite so successfully. 



