46 EINAR LÖNNBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 



This fish was first described by BOULENGER not long ago from the "Southern 

 Cross" collections (1. c.) and had been found by that expedition at two localities at 

 Victoria Land (Cape Adare and Duke of York Island) in the Australian quadrant. 

 The locality where the present specimens have been collected is thus situated at a 

 distance from the first mentioned of more than 130 longitudinal degrees. It may 

 be concluded from this, that Nototlienia nicolai has a very wide antarctic distribu- 

 tion, and probably is circumpolar. — It is evidently an inhabitant of the shallow 

 water, as it has been found partly in tide-pools, by the Swedish Expedition, partly 

 in a depth of 4 to 8 fathoms, by the Southern Cross expedition. This fact is of 

 great importance as it hints at the existence of a very wide and continuous area of 

 shallow water or that a coast-line still exists or has existed not long ago in the inter- 

 vening region between Victoria Land and the Graham Land complex. It is namely 

 not probable that exactly the same species of Nototlienia should inhabit regions as 

 wide apart as Seymour Island and Victoria Land if these were isolated by very 

 large interspaces of any considerable depth, when the great variability of the Noto- 

 tlieniidce and their faculty of developing geographic subspecies is taken into con- 

 sideration. The last mentioned quality of this family appears to be very con- 

 spicuously displayed bj' a comparison of the Ichthys of South Georgia with other 

 subantarctic districts. 



4. Notothenia larseni n. sp. 



(PI. II fi^. 6) 



2 specimens from stat. 6, S. of Snow Hill, depth 125 m., gravel and stones. 

 i6th of Jan. 1902. 



The two specimens are not in very good condition, but in spite of this and their 

 comparatively small size (58 mm. without caudal) I do not hesitate in referring them 

 to the species which I have described as new among the fishes from South Georgia 

 (p. 31). Small specimens of this species resemble those of A^. longipes Steindach- 

 NER * but are easily recognized by the large number of anal rays. When I there- 

 fore counted 38 such in these fishes instead of 32, which is the number recorded for 

 N. longipes, I could not have any doubts concerning their identity. 



In Stat. 78 W. of Snow Island. South Shetland in a depth of 1 10 m., the bot- 

 tom material consisting of sand somewhat mi.xed with clay, and in a temperature of 

 — 1,40° C. fishes were caught, but afterwards lost when the ship foundered. Noto- 

 thenia larseni was represented among them and Mr. SkottsBERG made a sketch of 

 such a specimen which was saved and now reproduced on PI. II fig. 6. The long 

 anal fin appears to be a good characteristic, also in this case. 



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