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Notothenia coriiceps, Eichards (Voy. "Erebus" and "Terror"). 

 Notothenia purpurice^os, Richards (Voy. "Erebus " and " Terror"). 

 Notothenia antarctica, Peters (Berl. MB., 1876, p. 837). 



Raja eatoni, Gthr. (Phil. Trans., vol. clxviii. p. 166). 



Of this species a female has been found by the naturalists of the Challenger. It 

 differs very little from the male found by Mr Eaton ; but, of course, the claw-like spines 

 on the pectoral fin are absent. The lower part of the body is entirely white, that of 

 the tail blackish. 



Maja miirrayi, n. sp. (PI. V.). 



The angle formed by the margins of the snout slightly obtuse, with the extremity 

 somewhat projecting. The width of the interorbital space equals the length of the orbit. 

 The distance between the outer margins of the nostrils is rather less than their distance 

 from the extremity of the snout. Teeth jDointed in both sexes, more so in the male than 

 in the female. Outer pectoral angle obtusely rounded. A curved spine in front and 

 behind on the superciliary edge. From four to six similar spines placed in a triangle in 

 the middle of the back. Tail with a median series of from sixteen to eighteen spines, but 

 with only very small ones on the sides. The spines, as far as described at present, are 

 found in both sexes, in the old as well as in the young. In the male the greater part of 

 the upper side of the body is smooth, with the usual patch of recurved spines near the 

 pectoral angle. In the female the whole of the upper surface is covered with scattered 

 small stellate asperities, which, in young specimens, are still more numerous than in the 

 old. The caudal series of spines is, in the young, generally continued forward to the 

 dorsal spines. Upper parts brown, with rounded darker and lighter spots. A large yel- 

 lowish ocellus edged with blackish on each side of the back of the male. 



Two adults (male and female) and three young specimens were collected. The former 

 are 17-| inches long, the tail measuring 9 inches. The greatest width of the disk is 11 

 inch.es. Kerguelen Island. 



Zanclorhynchus, n. gen. (Scorpjenidpe). 



Body compressed, oblong, without scales, covered with minute asperities. Bones of 

 the head armed with spines ; prseorbital not armed. Snout pointed ; mouth very pro- 

 tractile, lateral, narrow, toothless. Two d(5rsal fins. Ventral far Ijchiud tlie pectoral, 

 the pubic bones being much prolonged. Gill-opening reduced to a narrow slit above the 

 root of the pectoral. 



Zandorhynchus sjyinifer, n. s]). (PL VIII. fig. A). 



D. 1%, A. 10, P. 9, V. I. The height of the body is somewhat less than the length of 



