NO. 2133. FISHES TAKEN BY "ALBATROSS," 18S8— THOMPSON. 



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Table of proportional measurements in hundredths of the body length. 



1 Localities: Otter Bay, Smyth Channel, 01-50, 01-14: Borja Bay, Straits of Magellan, 01-12, 01-72, 

 01-73; Sandy Point, Straits of Magellan, 01-66, 01-67, Ol-U, 01-65; La'redo Bay, Straits of Magellan, 01-64. 



4. NOTOTHENIA ELEGANS GUnther. 



Notothenia elegans Gunther, Challenger Shore Fishes, p. 21, pi. 11, fig. C. Off 

 Cape Virgins, 55 fathoms. — Perugia, Ann. Mus. Genova (2), vol. 10, p. 19. 

 48° V 10'^ latitude south, and 63° 54' 15'^ longitude west.— Delfin, Catalogo 

 de los Feces de Chile, Revista Chilena, vol. 4, 1900, p. 87. — Boulenger, 

 Southern Cross, 1902, p. 183. — Regan, Scottish National Antarctic Exped., 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 49, pt. 2, No. 2, 1913, p. 274. Cape Virgins. 



Described frojn numerous speciinens taken at Albatross stations 

 2770, 2771, 2773, and 2774, extending from Capo Blanco to the 

 entrance of Magellan Straits. The species is evidently a small one, 

 the largest individual being 80 mm. in total length. A specimen 

 (numbered 01-24) 75 mm. long is used as typical in the description 

 and the extremes of measurements are inserted in hundredths of the 

 total length. 



Head 3f in body length (0.26 to 0.28); depth 6§ in same (0.15 to 

 0.17); eye 3i in head (0.07 to 0.085); snout 4^ (0.06 to 0.07); length 

 of maxillary 3 (0.08 to 0.09); of mandible 2| (0.09 to 0.10); width of 

 mterorbital space 13 (0.015 to 0.025); length of pectoral IJ (0.20 to 

 0.23); of combined dorsal bases If in body; of anal base 2; D. VI, 32 

 (or 33); A. 30 (30 to 32); pectoral rays 23; scales with pores in upper 

 lateral line 39 (38 to 42), in lower 5 (5 to 8); in lateral series 50 (48 

 to 51); scales between occiput and dorsal 14 (10 to 14); gill rakers 

 X+11 (6 to 9 + 10 to 12 = 17 to 20). 



Body elongated and slender, nearly cylindrical; width of head at 

 opercles greater than depth by diameter of pupil; width of body at 

 pectorals greater than depth by but httle; tail compressed; head 

 arched strongly in profile from above posterior border of eyes to tip 

 of snout; eyes looking upward nearly as much as laterally, inter- 

 orbital space very naiTow; snout short, less than eye diameter; 

 maxiUary reaching to below pupil, mouth cleft but shghtly oblique; 

 velar flap, measured from tip of lower jaw, as wide as one-half 

 diameter of eye; teeth small, in a double row in front, outer larger, a 

 single row laterally. 



First dorsal high, 2^ in head; second dorsal nearly a third again 

 as high anteriorly as posteriorly, as far as may be seen despite worn- 



