4 6 EINAR LÖNNBERG, (Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
This fish was first described by BOULENGER not long ago from the “Southern 
Cross” collections ( 1 . c.) and had been found by that expedition at two localities at 
Victoria Land (Cape Adare and Duke of York Island) in the Australian quadrant. 
The locality where the present specimens have been collected is thus situated at a 
distance from the first mentioned of more than 130 longitudinal degrees. It may 
be concluded from this, that Notothenia nicolai has a very wide antarctic distribu- 
tion, and probably is circumpolar. — It is evidently an inhabitant of the shallow 
water, as it has been found partly in tide-pools, by the Swedish Expedition, partly 
in a depth of 4 to 8 fathoms, by the Southern Cross expedition. This fact is of 
great importance as it hints at the existence of a very wide and continuous area of 
shallow water or that a coast-line still exists or has existed not long ago in the inter- 
vening region between Victoria Land and the Graham Land complex. It is namely 
not probable that exactly the same species of Notothenia should inhabit regions as 
wide apart as Seymour Island and Victoria Land if these were isolated by very 
large interspaces of any considerable depth, when the great variability of the Noto- 
theniidce and their faculty of developing geographic subspecies is taken into con- 
sideration. The last mentioned quality of this family appears to be very con- 
spicuously displayed by a comparison of the Ichthys of South Georgia with other 
subantarctic districts. 
4. Notothenia larseni n. sp. 
(PI. II fig. 6.) 
2 specimens from stat. 6, S. of Snow Hill, depth 125 m., gravel and stones. 
1 6th of Jan. 1902. 
The two specimens are not in very good condition, but in spite of this and their 
comparatively small size (58 mm. without caudal) I do not hesitate in referring them 
to the species which I have described as new among the fishes from South Georgia 
(p. 31). Small specimens of this species resemble those of N. longipes Steindach- 
NER * but are easily recognized by the large number of anal rays. When I there- 
fore counted 38 such in these fishes instead of 32, which is the number recorded for 
N. longipes , I could not have any doubts concerning their identity. 
In stat. 78 W. of Snow Island, South Shetland in a depth of no m., the bot- 
tom material consisting of sand somewhat mixed with clay, and in a temperature of 
• — 1,40° C. fishes were caught, but afterwards lost when the ship foundered. Noto- 
thenia larseni was represented among them and Mr. SKOTTSBERG made a sketch of 
such a specimen which was saved and now reproduced on PI. II fig. 6. The long 
anal fin appears to be a good characteristic, also in this case. 
* Ichthyologische Beitr. III. Sitzber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien Bd. LXXII, Jahrg. 1875, P- 4 2 — 43- 
