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one-half of the vertical diameter of the eye. Ventral long, extending to the third or fourth 

 anal ray. Body with irregular broad brown transverse bands ; cheek with two oblique 

 streaks. First dorsal nearly entirely black ; caudal immaculate. This species is dis- 

 tinguished from Notothenia tessellata by the much greater size of its eye. Length of 

 specimens, 4 to 6 inches. Kerguelen Island. Obtained by the dredge. 



Notothenia acuta, n. sp. 



D. 6/31, A. 30, L. lat. ca. 75. Head low, elongate, with pointed snout, its length 

 being two-sevenths of the total (without caudal) ; the height of the body one-sixth. Head 

 covered above with small scales nearly to the nostrils, the snout and prseorbital being 

 scaleless. Eye large, two-sevenths of the length of the head ; interorbital space extremely 

 narrow. Ventral extending to vent. Head and body marbled with blackish ; cheek 

 without streaks. Dorsal rays with blackish dots ; caudal mth cross-bands of blackish 

 spots ; anal white. Length of specimen, 2-^ inches. Kerguelen Island. Obtained in 

 trawl. 



Notothenia marionensis, n. sp. 



D. 7/29, A. 25, L. lat. 50. Head rather low, with pointed snout, its length being 

 two-sevenths of the total (without caudal) ; the height of the body is two-elevenths of 

 the same. Scales strongly ctenoid. Head covered above with small scales nearly to the 

 nostrils; the snout, the prseorbital, and the lower half of the cheek and operculum being 

 naked. Eye of moderate size, equal to the length of the snout, and a little more than 

 one-fourth of the length of the head ; interorbital space narrow. Ventral not extending 

 to the vent ; pectoral reaching the third or fourth anal ray. Upper parts greenish, 

 with subtesseUated blackish spots along the side of the body ; fins indistinctly dotted 

 with greyish, a blackish spot at the base of the upper pectoral rays. Length of speci- 

 men, 3-^ inches. Marion Island ; 50 to 75 fathoms. 



Harpagifer bispinis, Forst. Ofi" Marion Island; 50 to 75 fathoms. 



This species occurs also at Kerguelen Island, Cape Horn, and Falkland Islands. 



Murcenolepis, n. gen. (Gadidse). 



Body compressed, elongate, covered with epidermoid productions which are lanceolate, 

 intersecting each other at right angles, like those of a fresh-water eel. Vertical fins 

 confluent, no caudal fin being discernible ; an anterior dorsal fin is represented by a single 

 filamentous ray ; ventral fins narrow, composed of several rays. A barbel. Jaws with 

 a band of viUiform teeth ; palate toothless. Gill-openings rather narrow, extendino- 

 from the lower part of the root of the pectoral round the isthmus, the gill-membranes 



(ZOOL. CHALL. EXP. — PAET VI. 1880.) F 3 



