92 E. LÖNNBERG, CONTRrBUTIONS TO THE FAUNA OF SOUTH GEORGIA. 



Magellan territory as at Kerguelen Land are not counted, the ichthys of South Ge- 

 orgia has more affinities with the mnch more distant eastern districts, Marion Island 

 and Kerguelen Land (one species in common with either) than with the nearer si- 

 tuated western districts, Falklands and Tierra del Fuego (no species in common). 

 B ut with the true Antarctic region the relationship is closest (four species in com- 

 mon). The latter fact is still more confirmed by the fact that the just discovered 

 genus Artedidraco has one species at South Georgia, the other in the true Ant- 

 arctic.» 



The corroboration of this view with regard to the affinity between the fish- 

 fauna of South Georgia and Kerguelen Land lies now in the fact that Sörling from 

 South Georgia has carried home a member of the genus Chcenichthys s. str. which 

 genus hitherto was known from Kerguelen Land alone. 



Doixo (7) has said concerning the N ototheMiidce of South Georgia that they 

 ?représentent un appauvrissement et une specialisation des Nototheniidce Magellaniques.» 

 But this opinion was expressed before the Swedish Expedition 1902 had increased 

 the knowledge (10) about this fauna and it does not hold good any longer. Dollo 

 (7) enumerates for the Magellan territory 13 species of Nototheniidce belonging to 6 

 genera, but up to the present time not less than 14 members of this family belong- 

 ing to 7 genera have been recorded from South Georgia. Probably all species of 

 the litoral fish-fauna of South Georgia are not discovered yet, but it might be ex- 

 pected that several others may be found if thorough investigations are made for that 

 purpose. 



Sorling's time was so greatly taken up by preparing skeletons and skins of 

 various vertebrates that he could not give much time to collecting fishes. He has, 

 nevertheless, brought with him several specimens about which will be reported in 

 the following lines. 



Notothenia mizops nudifrons Lönnberg 1905. 



1 specimeu amoiig algte, Boiler Harbour, Cumberlanä Bay. 



This is a common fish at the coast of South Georgia. The Swedish Expedition 

 collected numerous specimens at different localities at South Georgia (10) as well as 

 in the Antarctic region. The chief difference from N. mizops Gunther from Ker- 

 guelen land, hes in the absence of scales in the interorbital region and crown of the 

 South Georgian fish. Hence its subspecific nanie. 



