II. — The Antarctic Fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By 

 0. Tate Regan, M.A., Assistant in the British Museum (Natural History). Com- 

 municated hy Dr W. S. Bruce. (With Eleven Plates and Six Text-figs.) 



(MS. received June 18, 1912. Read December 16, 1912. Issued separately Mny 23, 1913.) 



Our knowledge of the Antarctic fish-fauna has greatly increased during the Last 

 ten years. The Belgian expedition to Graham Land (1897-1899) was followed by 

 that of t\iQ Soitthevn Cross to Victoria Land (1898-1900), fitted out by Sir George 

 Newnes. Next were the British expedition of tlie Discovery to Victoria Land and 

 Edward Land (1901-1904), the German voyage of the Gauss to Kerguelen and Wilhelm 

 Land (1901-1903), and Nordenskjold's Swedish expedition to South Georgia, the South 

 Shetlands, and Graham Land. Then came the voyage of the Scotia to the South 

 Orkneys and Coats Land (1902-1904), and Charcot's expeditions to the Palmer 

 Archipelago and Graham Land in the Frangais (1904-1905) and the Pourquoi Fas? 

 (1908-1910), and finally Shackleton's expedition (1908-1909). 



The fishes collected during these expeditions have been described in a series of 

 reports, which may be enumerated in chronological order : — 



1902. BouLENGER, Pisces in "Southern Gross" Collections, pp. 174-189, pis. xi.-xviii. 



1904. DoLLO, Res. Voy. " Belijica" : Poissons, 240 pp., 12 pis. 



1905. LOnnberg, "The Fishes of the Swedish South Polar Expedition," Wisseitsch. Ergehn. 



Schwedisch. Sildpolar-Exped., v. 6, 69 pp., 5 pis. 



1906. Vaillant, Exped. Antarct. Frangaise: Poissons, 51 pp. 



1907. BouLENGER, National Antarctic Expedition, Nat. Hist. : II., Fishes, 5 pp., 2 pis. 



1911. Waite, "Antarctic Fishes," in British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9 : Biology, pp. 11-16, 



pi. ii. 



1912. Pappenheim, "Die Fische der Antarktis und Subantarktis," in Deidsche SUdpolar-Exped., 



1901-1903 : XIII., Zool., V. pp. 163-182, pis. ix.-x. 



Dr DoLLO presented several preliminary notes in the Froceedings of the Roycd Society 

 of Edinburgh * on the fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. 



The fishes of the second Charcot expedition have been worked out by Professor 

 RouLE, who has published two preliminary notes {CR. Acad. Sci. Faris, cliii., 1911, pp. 

 80-81, andBidl. Mus.Faris, 1911, pp. 276-28 l),but the final report has not yet appeared. 



The important collection of fishes here reported on was made at the Falkland Islands, 

 the South Orkneys, Coats Land, and Gough Island, and in the Weddell Sea and South 

 Atlantic Ocean between these localities. As will be seen from the systematic list that 

 follows, it includes examples of forty-eight species, ten of which are now described as 

 new to science, whilst three others, known before but wrongly identified, are diagnosed 

 and given new specific names ; in addition, four species have already been described by 



* Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., xxvi., 1906, p. 172 ; xxviii., 1908, p. 5S ; xxix., 1909, p. 31(i. 

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