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which nearly reaches caudal, 13 in line on middle of tail, and 40 to 45 in a third lower 

 lateral line, which is separated by 4 or 5 longitudinal series of scales from the base of 

 the anal fin. Brownish ; fins darker. 



Port Stanley, Falklands. 



Total length 280 mm. 



I was at first inclined to make this species the type of a new genus, but on examining 

 related species of Notothenia I found a specimen of N. brevicauda with a third lateral 

 line on one side only, formed of 10 tubular scales and separated from the posterior part 

 of the anal fin by 3 series of scales. 



(2) Notothenia canina. 

 Smitt, Bih. So. Vet.-Akad. Handl., xxiii., iv., No. 3, p. 32, pi. ii. fig. 22 (1897). 



Evidently closely related to N. tesselata, but the outer series of teeth stronger, 

 spaced, more canine-like, and the upper lateral line with 62 to 65 tubular scales. 

 Dorsal VI, 32-33. Anal 30-31. 



East coast of Patagonia. 



Total length 138 mm. 



Notothenia acuta, Steind. (non Giinther) (Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. iv., 1897-8, p. 303), 

 from Chile, is probably closely related to N. canina. 



(3) Notothenia ramsayi, sp. n. (PI. VII. fig. 1.) 



Depth of body 4 to 5-J- in the length of the fish, length of head about 3. 

 Diameter of eye 4 to 4^ in the length of head, interorbital width 4^ to 7. Jaws 

 equal anteriorly ; maxillary extending to below anterior of eye ; cheeks, opercles, and 

 upper surface of head, to between the nostrils, scaly; 21 to 25 gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal VII (VIII), 34-36. Anal 32-34. Pectoral from less 

 than | to f length of head ; pelvics as long, extending to vent or to anal fin. Caudal 

 rounded or subtruncate. Caudal peduncle as long as deep, or deeper than long, its 

 least depth ^ to f the length of head. 60 to 72 scales in a longitudinal series, from 

 above base of pectoral to caudal fin ; 46 to 54 in upper lateral line, which almost 

 reaches the caudal ; 8 to 17 in lower lateral line. A lateral series of 5 to 7 dark blotches 

 or vertical bars. 



Several specimens, 200 to 300 mm. in total length, taken on 1st December 1903 

 from the Burdwood Bank, Scotia Station 346, 54 24' S., 50 32' W. ; depth 56 

 fathoms; surface temperature 41 '8 F. ; one from Isthmus Bay, Magellan Straits, 

 14 fathoms (CoPPlNGER). 



This species is named in memory of ALLAN GEORGE RAMSAY, chief engineer of the 

 Scotia, who died at Scotia Bay, South Orkneys, on 6th August 1903. 



(ROY. soc. EDIN. TRASS., VOL. XLIX., 267.) 



