xo. 2133. FIHHEfi TAKEN BY "ALBATROSS;' lS88—-THOifPSON. 439 



6. NOTOTHENIA SIMA Richardson. 



Notothenia sima Richardson, Voyage Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 184G, p. 19, pi. 

 11, figs. 1 and 2. Fallcland Islands. — Steindachner, Fauna Cliilensis, Zool. 

 Jahi-b. Suppl., vol. 4, 1898, p. 303. Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan. — 

 BouLENGER, Ann. Nat. Hist., (7) vol. 6, 1900, p. 53. Stanley Harbor, Falk- 

 land Islands; idem. Southern Cross, 1902, p. 183 (part). — Lonnberg, Wis- 

 sensch. Erg. Schwed. Siidpolar Exp., vol. 5, Lief. 6, 1905, p. 12, pi. 1, fig. 1. 

 Falkland Islands. — ?Vaillant, Expedition Antarctique Francaise (1903- 

 1905) Dec, 190G, p. 24. Booth Wandel Island, (Dorsal VI, 36).— Lonnberg, 

 Magalhaenische Sammelreise, 1907, p. 9. Punta Arenas, Smyth Channel and 

 Falkland Islands. — Regan, Scottish Antarctic Expedition, Trans. Royal 

 Soc. Edinl)., 1913, p. 240 and 269. Magellan Straits and Falkland Islands. 



Notothenia cornucola, formae calva, intermedia, and squamifronsSuiTT, Bih. Svenska 

 Akad., vol. 23, IV, No. 3, 1897, p. 12, pi. 1, fig. 12; pi. 2, figs. 13 and 14; pi. 11, 

 figs. 15-17. — Delfin, Catalogo de los Feces de Chile, Revista Chilena, vol. 4, 

 1900, p. 85 (after Smitt). 



? Notothenia kerlandreae Ia)nnberg Wissensch. Ergel), Schwed. Siidpolar Exp., 

 vol. 5, 1905, Lief. 6, p. 14.pl. 4, fig. 13. Port Williams and Port Stanley, 

 Falklands. 



Described from numerous specimens taken at Gregory and Laredo 

 Bays, and Sandy Point in the Straits of Magellan. A specimen 105 

 mm. in total length from Laredo Bay taken as typical. It is the 

 longest at hand. 



Head 3| in body length (0.29 to 0.32); depth 4^ (0.19 to 0.22); 

 eye 5 in head (0.06 to 0.075); snout 3§ (0.07 to 0.085); maxillary 2| 

 (0.095 to 0.12); mandible 2i (0.11 to 0.13); width of interorbital 

 space 5i (0.045 to 0.055); length of pectoral IJ (0.21 to 0.26); of 

 ventral about H (0.22 to 0.24); depth of caudal peduncle 3^ in head 

 (0.08 to 0.095); length of combined dorsal bases 1| in body; of anal 

 base 2; D. VI (or V), 28 (to 30); A. 28 (to 30); pectoral rays 22; 

 scales with pores in upper lateral hne 35 to 38; in lower 8 to 12; in 

 longitudinal series 46 (45 to 50); in transverse 5+14; between in- 

 sertion of dorsal and line of occiput 12 to 17; giU rakers 9+11 (18 

 to 20). 



Head cottoid in shape, as deep as wide at opercles; widely arched, 

 not strongly convex, from side to side; lower jaw but very slightly 

 longer; lip usually as broad as suborbital; small teeth in a double 

 band, outer series slightly enlarged; distance edge of velar flap from 

 tip of lower jaw equal to two-thirds dianieter of eye; upper side of 

 eyeball exposed and pigmented; maxillary extending to below an- 

 terior fourth of eye; posterior limb of preopercle vertical; distance 

 eye to line of occiput greater than diameter of eye in adults. 



First dorsal inserted above pectoral base; interdorsal space equal 

 to that between spines; distance from last ray to end of muscular 

 part of tail two-thirds least depth of caudal peduncle; last dorsal ray 

 over fourth from last of anal; longest dorsal spine 3 in head; longest 

 ray 2\ in head; anterior part of fin higher by a third than posterior; 



