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The group corresponds to the Nototheniidae of BOULENGER and DOLLO, with the 

 addition of Pleuragramma, which does not at all resemble Leptoscopus, and after the 

 exclusion of Centropercis, evidently related to Champsodon, and of Acanthaphritis 

 (Pteropsaron), which is related to Hemeroccetes. Draconetta is allied to the 

 Callionymidse, and its resemblances to Harpagifer are not due to affinity. As now 

 restricted the Nototheniiformes are characteristic of and peculiar to the Antarctic seas 



Antipodes /s ' Auckland Is. 

 Chatham, o //?>'* * 2ea/apd 



FIG. 4. Map showing the localities where Nototheniiform Fishes have been collected. 



and the region immediately to the north, ranging to S.E. Australia, New Zealand, 

 Chile, Argentina, Tristan da Cunha, and St Paul Island. 



There is every reason to suppose that the group has always been an Antarctic one, 

 and seeing that it has become differentiated into four quite distinct families and into 

 several genera, we may perhaps infer that there has been a large cold southern ocean 

 throughout the greater part of the Tertiary period. 



The group throws no light on the question of former extensions northward of the 

 Antarctic Continent ; at the present day there are littoral species common to Australia 



(BOY. soc. EDIN. TRANS., VOL. XLIX., 250.) 



