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n. — The Antarctic Fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By 

 C. Tate Regan, M.A., Assistant in the British Museum (Natural History). Com- 

 municated by Dr W. S. Bruce. (With Eleven Plates and Six Text-figs.) 



(MS, received June 18, 1912. Read December 16, 1912. Issued separately May 23, 1913.) 



Our knowledge of the Antarctic fish-fauna has greatly increased during the last 

 ten years. The Belgian expedition to Graham Land (1897-1899) was followed by 

 that of the Southern Cross to Victoria Land (1898-1900), fitted out by Sir George 

 Newnes. Next were the British expedition of the Discovery to Victoria Land and 

 Edward Land (1901-1904), the German voyage of the Gauss to Kerguelen and Wilhelm 

 Land (1901-1903), and Nordenskjold's Swedish expedition to South Georgia, the South 

 Shetlands, and Graham Land. Then came the voyage of the Scotia to the South 

 Orkneys and Coats Land (1902-1904), and Charcot's expeditions to the Palmer 

 Archipelago and Graham Land in the Fran<^ais (1904-1905) and the Pourquoi Fas? 

 (1908-1910), and finally Shackleton's expedition (1908-1909). 



The fishes collected during these expeditions have been described in a series of 

 reports, which may be enumerated in chronological order : — 



1902. BouLENGER, Pisces in '■'■Southern Cross" Collections, pp. 174-189, pis. xi.-xviii. 



1904. DoLLo, Res. Voy. " Belgica" : Poissons, 240 pp., 12 pis. 



1905. LoNNBERG, "The Fishes of the Swedish South Polar Expedition," Wisseiiscli. Ergehn. 



Schwedisch. Siidpolar-Exped., v. 6, 69 pp., 5 pis. 



1906. Vaillant, Ex'ped. Antard. Frangaise : Poisso7is, 51 pp. 



1907. BouLENGER, Natwiial Antarctic Expedition, Nat. Hist.: II., Fishes, 5 pp., 2 pis. 



1911. Waite, ^'^ Ania.xcticYis\i&B," \n British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9: Biology, -p-p. 11-16, 



pi. ii. 



1912. Pappenheim, "Die Fische der Antarktis und Subantarktis," in Deutsche Siidpolar-Exped., 



1901-1903 : XIIL, Zool, v. pp. 163-182, pis. ix.-x. 



Dr DoLLO presented several preliminary notes in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh* on the fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. 



The fishes of the second Charcot expedition have been worked out by Professor 

 Roule, who has published two preliminary notes {C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, cliii., 1911, pp. 

 80-81, and Bull. Mus. Paris, 19 U, pp. 2 7 6-2 81), but the final report has not yet appeared. 



The important collection of fishes here reported on was made at the Falkland Islands, 

 the South Orkneys, Coats Land, and Gough Island, and in the Weddell Sea and South 

 Atlantic Ocean between these localities. As will be seen from the systematic list that 

 follows, it includes examples of forty-eight species, ten of which are now described as 

 new to science, whilst three others, known before but wrongly identified, are diagnosed 

 and given new specific names ; in addition, four species have already been described by 



* Proc. Roy. Sac. Edin, xxvi., 1906, p. 172 ; xxviii., 1908, p. 58 ; xxix., 1909, p. 316. 

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