

16 "TERRA NOVA" EXPEDITION. 



A single specimen, 80 mm. in total length, from Cape North : 70 fathoms. 



Compared with A. schoteli this species is still more aberrant in form, with tin 1 

 insertion of the dorsal spine higher and further back, behind instead of in front of the 

 soft dorsal tin. It agrees more closely with N. fernandezianus, which has been figured 

 1 1\ I >ell'm on the cover of his ( !atalogue of ( 'hi lean Fishes. The type of 2V. fernandezianus 

 measures L 67 mm., and it may be owing to its larger size that the eye is smaller (5g in 

 length of head), the snout longer (l| instead of l! rest of head) than in 2V. xenosoma ; 

 also the greater length of the dorsal bristles is doubtless due to age. The difference in 

 structure and position of the dorsal spine may be more important, and in all probability 

 direct comparison would reveal other differences between the two forms. 



Syngnathidae. 



I l. Solenognathus spinosissimus, Giinth. 



L2. Stigniatophora macropterycjia, Dumeril. 

 D'Urville Island. 



Trachichthyidae. 



13. Paratrachichthys trailli, Hutton. 

 Elmsley Bay, South Island. 



Gempylidae. 



14. Thyrsites atun, Euphras. 



Trichiuridae. 

 L5. Lepidopus caudatus, Euphras. 



Serranidae. 



Id. Caprodon lonqimanus, (ninth. 



Serranops, Regan. 



Serranops, Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xm, 1914, p. IT.. 



Related to Plectranthias, Bleek, but with the serrations of the lower praeopercular 

 limb weak, not antrorse, and the scales spinulose. Distinguished externally from 

 Lepidoperca by the larger mouth, naked maxillary, and almost naked spinous dorsal 

 I'm. Skeleton as in Plectranthias, the frontals smooth and convex behind the orbits 

 and narrow between them, with the mucous canals in contact and the supraorbital 

 flanges little developed. Vertebrae 10 + L6. 



17. Serranops maculicauda, Regan (PI. xi, fig. 3). 



Serranops maculicauda, Regan, Aim. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xm, 1914, p. 15. 



Depth of body 2f to :: in the length, length of head •_'.', to 2§. Snout shorter 

 than diameter of eye, which is :; in length of head: interorbital width (i. Upper 



