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Order SCLEROPAREI 



Family LIPARIDAE 

 Paraliparis gracilis, n.sp. 



St. 146. 8.1.27. 53° 48' 00" S, 35° 37' 30" W. Large dredge, heavy pattern, 4 ft. in length 

 (1-2 m.), 728 m. : rock, i specimen, 70 mm. Holotype. 



Depth of body equal to length of head and 5^ in length of fish. Snout rather obtuse, 

 scarcely projecting beyond mouth, shorter than eye, diameter of which is about ^ of head. 

 Maxillary extending to below posterior part of eye; teeth villiform, in broad bands. 

 Lower end of gill-opening opposite upper pectoral rays . Dorsal with about 59 rays ; origin 

 above extremity of operculum ; first four rays very short and partially hidden beneath 

 the skin. Anal with about 56 rays ; origin below about tenth ray of dorsal. Pectoral with 

 10+1 + 1+1+3 rays; longest rays of upper portion about equal to those of lower and 

 as long as head; upper and lower portions separated by three single rays set wide apart. 



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Fig. 42. Paraliparis gracilis. Holotype. (x ij.) 



Described from a single specimen, 70 mm. in length; holotype of the species. 



Hab. North of South Georgia. 



Very close to P. terrae-novae, Regan, which was described from a single young speci- 

 men, 35 mm. in length, from McMurdo Sound. It appears to difi^er in the greater 

 number of anal rays and in the form of the pectoral fin. The three Antarctic species may 

 be distinguished as follows. 



I. Upper portion of pectoral with 19 rays. i. antarcticus, Regan, 1914 

 II. Upper portion of pectoral with about 10 rays. 



A. Anal with 43 rays; pectoral fin without elongate lower rays. 2. terrae-novae, Regan, 1916 



B. Anal with about 56 rays; pectoral with 3 elongate lower rays. 3. oran'fc, n.sp. 



Order PEDICULATI 



Family LINOPHRYNIDAE 



Haplophryne mollis (Brauer, 1902). 



Regan, 1926, Ocean. Rep. Danish ' Dana'-Exped. (1920-2), n, p. 25, pi. iii, fig. 3. 



St. 287. 19. viii. 27. 2° 49' 30" S, 9° 25' 30" W. Young-fish trawl, 800-1000 (-0) m. : i specimen, 

 40 mm. 



Hab. Atlantic; Indian Ocean; New Zealand. 



