20 ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MADE DURING [Jan. 4, 



5. Agriopus peruvianas, C, V. West coast of Patagonia. 



6. Eleginus maclovinus, C. V. Tom Bay, from a brackish 

 lagoon, and Cockle Cove. 



7. Aphritis gobio, Gthr. Portland Bay, Magellan's Straits, 

 and Stanley Harbour, Falkland Islands. 



8. Ch^nichthys esox, Gthr. Puerto Bueno. 



9. NoTOTHENiA MACROCEPHALA, Gthr. Pucrto Bueuo and 

 Trinidad Channel. 



10. NoTOTHENiA TESSELLATA, Rich. Puerto del Morio, Latitude 

 Cove, Puerto Bueno. 



11. NoTOTHENiA LONGiPES, Steind. Isthmus Bay, in 14 fa- 

 thoms. 



12. NoTOTHENiA CORNUCOLA, Rich. Cocklc Cove. 



13. Trachurus trachurus, L. Francisco Bay. 



14. Neopheynichthys latus, Hutton. (Plate I.) 



Of this very interesting fish, which was discovered only a few 

 years ago by Mr. Hutton in New-Zealand, a specimen 16 inches 

 long is in the collection. Fortunately, by the kindness of Mr. 

 Hutton, I am in a position to compare the American specimen with 

 one obtained on the New-Zealand coast. Structurally they are iden- 

 tical ; only some small tentacles are developed in the Americau 

 specimen above the eye and on some parts of the body. The colo- 

 ration is a blackish brown, marbled with lighter brown and grey. 

 These differences are not sufficient to indicate specific distinctness. 

 The specimen was obtained in Swallow Bay (Magellan's Straits). 



15. Lycodes latitans, Jen. Portland Bay. 



16. Maynea patagonica, Cunningham, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxvii. 1871, p. 472. (Plate IL figs. C and D.) 



Of this fish a second, much younger specimen was discovered by 

 Dr. Coppinger at Port Rosario. It is 3-^ inches long, and marked 

 by fourteen broad blackish-brown cross bands, of which there is no 

 trace in the adult specimen. The fact that the same style of colo- 

 ration obtains in the young stage of Gymnelis pictus (which also 

 otherwise is so closely allied to Maynea) renders it all but certain that 

 G. pictus is likewise an Antarctic species. We figure it here side by 

 side with its nearest allies (Plate II. fig. B.). 



Melanostigma, g. n. Lycodid. 



This genus agrees with Gymnelis and Maynea in the absence of 

 ventral fins, and technically may be distinguished from both by the 

 Hiuch more elongate teeth, which in the jaws, as well as on the vomer 

 and palatines, stand in a single series. However, there are other 



