Bd. V: 6) 
THE FISHES OF THE SWEDISH SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION. 
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Total length without caudal in mm. . . 108 
103 
100 
92 
68 
65 
64 
58 
57 42 
40,5 
36.8 
36 
Length of head 
in % of tot. 1. without caudal 29,4 
28,2 
29 
29)3 
28,2 
29,2 
28,4 
27,6 
29 30,4 
29,6 
29,9 
27,7 
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8,7 
8,5 
8,7 
8,8 
8,2 
9 a 
8,6 
8,6 7,6 
7 , 1 2 
7,3 
8,3 
Diameter of eye 
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9 , 2 
9,5 
9)8 
9,9 
9 , 2 
10,6 
9 
8,9 9,5 
8,o 
857 
8,0 
Length of ventrals 
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23,3 
26 
27,2 
26,7 
24,9 
28,1 
28,9 
28,3 28,6 
26,2 
29,9 
26,6 
Depth of caudal 
peduncle . . . 
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9,o 
9,0 
7,6 
7,6 
9 a 
8,3 
8,3 
8,4 9,5 
9,9 
10,3 
10,5 
Interorbital width 
1 in % of length of head 6,3 
7,9 
7,9 
7,4 
9,4 
11,6 
9-3 
7-5 
7 , 2 7,8 
10 
10 
1 1 
From these measurements is conspicuous that the snout, as usual, is smaller in 
younger individuals than in older, but also that, contrary to the rule, the eyes 
are comparatively smaller and the interorbital space broader in young than in old 
specimens. 
Notothenia viizops var. nudifrons appears to be very common at the coast of 
South Georgia in a depth from 10 to 250 m. But it was also found further south 
within the truly antarctic region as is recorded in another chapter. N. misops was 
originally described from Kerguelen Land. The distribution of the species is thus 
by the discoveries of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition proved to extend over at 
least half the subantarctic region over the Atlantic and Indian quadrants. 
The colour of one specimen of this fish is shown on PI. I fig. 2 where a sketch 
made by Mr. SlCOTTSBERG from a living specimen is reproduced. Concerning the 
colours of the specimens caught at stat. 20 the label informs us: “the largest brownish 
red on the sides, the others with dark spots on a whitish ground-colour, belly white”. 
6. Notothenia larseni 2 n. sp. 
(PL I fig. 3.) 
I specimen from stat. 17, Shag Rocks, W. of South Georgia, depth 160 m., 
gravel and sand, temperature at bottom + 2,05° C. 19th of April 1902. 
5 specimens from stat. 34, outside Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, depth 252 — 
310 m., grey clay mixed with some few stones, temperature + 1,45° C. 5th of 
June 1902. 
D. VI, 37 — 39. A. 38. P. 26. Sq. 69 — 76. 
Depth of body 4V3 to 5 times in total length without caudal. Length of head 
3V3 times in total length. Head and body rather compressed. Head rather pointed 
with eyes protruding. Upper contour from snout to first dorsal almost a straight 
line. Diameter of eye 3 times in length of head. Interorbital width 11 to 13 times 
1 The supraocular skin is not contained in this measurement. 
2 Named after Captain C. A. Larsen renowned from his voyages in the Antarctic regions, and chief 
navigator of the Swedish Antarctic expedition. 
