. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 88 DISCOVERY REPORTS both jaws, those of the outer row a little enlarged anteriorly; a few scales behind the eye and on the upper part of the operculum; head otherwise naked; 8 to 11 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body ctenoid; 46 to 50 in a lateral longitudinal series; 39 to 41 tubular scales in upper lateral line, which ends below or in advance of last ray of dorsal, 4 to 11 in lower lateral line. Dorsal VI 31-33; longest spine § to § length of head. Anal 30-32. Pectoral
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 88 DISCOVERY REPORTS both jaws, those of the outer row a little enlarged anteriorly; a few scales behind the eye and on the upper part of the operculum; head otherwise naked; 8 to 11 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body ctenoid; 46 to 50 in a lateral longitudinal series; 39 to 41 tubular scales in upper lateral line, which ends below or in advance of last ray of dorsal, 4 to 11 in lower lateral line. Dorsal VI 31-33; longest spine § to § length of head. Anal 30-32. Pectoral § to f length of head, as long as or a little shorter than pelvics, which extend to vent or beyond. Caudal rounded; caudal peduncle. Fig. 42. Notothenia elegans. x §. somewhat deeper than long. Sides of body with large dark spots or irregular cross-bars; usually a narrow pale streak running along side below the lateral line; a pale oblique stripe, bordered with darker, sometimes present on the head; mucous pores on head often black; spinous dorsal pinkish at its extremity; soft dorsal with series of small dark spots, sometimes united to form longitudinal stripes; caudal with 2 or 3 indistinct cross-bars; anal, pectoral and pelvics uniformly pale. Hab. Patagonian-Falklands region; Straits of Magellan. In addition to the above, there are 2 specimens (both 95 mm. long) in the British Museum collection—types of the species. Notothenia macrocephala, Giinther. ? Gadus magellanicus, Schneider [ex Forster MS.], 1801, in Bloch, Syst. Ichtli., p. 10. ? Notothenia magellanica, Richardson, 1844, Zool. 'Erebus' and ' Terror', Fishes, p. 9. Notothenia macrocephala, Giinther, i860, Cat. Fish., II, p. 263; Cunningham, 1871, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xxvn, p. 470; Vaillant, 1888, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Zool., Poiss., p. 27, pi. iii, fig. 2; Perugia, 1891, Ann. Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) x [xxx], p. 618; Smitt, 1897, Bih. Sv. HandL, xxin, iv, No. 3, p. 9, pi. iii, figs.
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