NO. 2133. FISHES TAKEN BY "ALBATROSS:' 1888— THOMPSON. 443 



8. NOTOTHENIA RAMSAYI Regan. 



Notothenia ravisayi Regan, Scottish Antarctic Expedition, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Edinburgh, vol. 49, pt. 2 (No. 2), 1913, pp. 239 and 267, pi. 7, fig. 1. Burd- 

 wood Bank and Isthmus Bay, Magellan Straits (56 and 14 fathoms). 



"Depth of body 4 to 5^ in the length of the fish, length of head 

 about 3^. Diameter of eye 4 to 4^ in the length of the head, inter- 

 orbital width 4^ to 7. Jaws equal anteriorly; maxillary extending to 

 below anterior one-fourth of eye; cheeks, opercles, and upper surface 

 of head, to between the nostrils, scaly; 21 to 25 gill rakere on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal VII (VIII), 34-.36. Anal 32-34. 

 Pectoral from less than three-fifths to two-thirds length of head; 

 pelvics as long, extending to vent or to anal fin. Caudal rounded or 

 subtruncate. Caudal peduncle as long as deep or deeper than long, 

 its least depth one-fourth to two-sevenths the length of the head. 

 Sixty to seventy-two scales in a longitudinal series, from above base 

 of pectoral to caudal fin; 46 to 54 m upper lateral line, which almost 

 reaches the caudal; 8 to 17 in lower lateral line. A lateral series of 

 5 to 7 dark blotches or vertical bars." (Regan.) 



9. NOTOTHENIA JORDANI, new species. 



Plate 3, fig. 3. 



Described from numerous specimens taken at Albatross stations 

 2769, 2773, 2774, and 2775, respectively located as follows: Off the 

 Gulf of St. George, off Cape Virgins, just south of Cape Virgins, and 

 between Cape Virgins and First Narrows in the Straits of Magellan. 

 All are badly preserved and brittle except the type from station 2773, 

 a specimen 125 mm in total length, author's number 01-10, and Cat. 

 No. 76855, U.S.N.M. Extremes of measurements in hundredths of 

 body lengths of paratypes given in parentheses after the respective 

 measurements of the type. 



Head 3§ in length to base of caudal (0.27 to 0.31) ; depth 4§ (0.17 to 

 0.22) ; eye U in head (0.065 to 0.08) ; snout 3f (0.07 to 0.08) ; length 

 of maxillary 2f (0.095 to 0.10); of mandible 2| (0.12 or 0.13); width 

 of interorbital space b\ (0.05 to 0.065); length of pectoral If (0.21 to 

 0.25) ; of ventral U (0.19 to 0.23); of longest spine of first dorsal U; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3f (0.07 to 0.08) ; length of combined 

 dorsal bases U in body; of anal 2^; D. VII (VII or VIII), 35; A. 

 32 (31 to 33) ; pectoral rays 23; scales with pores in upper lateral line 

 46 (43 to 47), in lower lateral line 16 (8 to 16); in lateral series 62 (58 

 to 62); in transverse from anal insertion obliquely forward and 

 upward 5 + 15; gill rakers 14 + 24 (=35 to 38). 



Width of head at preopercle nearly equal to its depth; width of 

 body at pectorals two-thirds its depth; lower jaw slightly longer than 

 upper; maxillary ending under anterior third of eye; interorbital 

 space broad, flat; upper surface of eyeballs only slightly exposed; 



