276 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Galaxias coppiugeri Giinther, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1881, 21 (Alert 

 Bay); id. Zool. Coll. H. M. S. Alert, 21, 1881. (Alert Bay.) 



Galaxias alpiiius (non Jenyns) Smitt, Bih. Svenska Akad. Handl. XXIV, 

 IV, No. 5, 1898, p. 56, pi. V, figs. 4o-40r^. 

 Habitat : Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia. 



18. Galaxias platei Steindachner. 



(Plate XXXV, Figs, i, 2, 2a, 3 and 3^.) 



Grt;/rt';f/«5//(7'/^/ Steindachner, Zool. Jahrb., 1898, Supplement IV, Zweites 



Heft, 329 (Rio Pescado near Punta Arenas) ; Delfin, Catalogo Feces 



Chile, 34, 1 90 1. 

 Galaxias alpiims (part) Smitt, Bih. Svenska Akad. Handl. XXVI, IV, 



No. 13, p. 9, pi. iii, 1901. 

 ? Galaxias graudis Philippi,^ Verh. Deutsch. Wiss. Ver. Santiago, Chile 



III, 19, 1893 ; Delfin, Catalogo Feces Chile, 33, 1901 (Punta Arenas). 

 '> Galaxias delfini Philippi, Verh. Deutsch. Wiss. Ver. Santiago, Chile III, 



19, 1893; Delfin, Catalogo Feces Chile, 33, 1901 (Funta Arenas). 

 ? Galaxias titcombi Evermann & Kendall,^ Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXI, 



1906, 92 (Rio Traful, Argentina). 



' Philippi described two species of Galaxias as follows : 



Galaxias graudis Philippi, p. 19, based on a specimen shrivelled by strong alcohol and 

 from which all fins but the caudal had been removed, from a lake north of Punta Arenas. Length 

 without caudal 292 mm., with caudal 330 mm.; depth 3.4 in the length, width 3.56; depth of 

 caudal peduncle 10.8, its width 32.4 in the length; head 4.5. Head low, flat above and little 

 arched ; mouth 'small, eye 9 + in the head ; four ridges on preopercle. Dorsal profile more 

 strongly arched than in other species of Galaxias, ventral profile but little arched. Head light 

 gray, body yellowish, lighter below ; numerous spots i ^ mm. in diameter everywhere on the 

 body, fainter ones on upper part of head. 



Galaxias delfini Philippi, p. 19, based on a specimen preserved in such strong alcohol that 

 it had to be soaked in water before its characters could be made out. From a lake north of 

 Punta Arenas. Length without caudal 192 mm.; depth 5.8 in the length; width less than 

 depth ; depth of caudal peduncle 1.2 in the length ; head a little over 4.5 ; depth of head greater 

 than in graudis but equally flat ; eye 9 in head ; dorsal and ventral profiles nearly straight ; base 

 of dorsal 8.7 in the length, its height 7 ; back light yellow, sides light gray ; back with numerous 

 partially confluent brown spots ; fins unspotted. D. 8 ; A. 12. 



^ This species, which may be distinct, was published as this report was going through the press. 

 It was described as follows : 



Head 4 in length without caudal ; depth 5.94 ; eye 4.23 in head ; snout 3.92 ; D. 10 ; A. 1 1 ; 

 snout bluntish ; eye moderate, slightly shorter than snout ; dorsal outline arching slightly from 

 occiput, thence nearly straight to front of dorsal ; height of dorsal 8.56 in length without caudal, 

 its base about 2.20 in head, the first rays when depressed not reaching tip of last rays ; distance 



