. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 6o DISCOVERY REPORTS adults; lower jaw projecting; bands of very small conical teeth in both jaws, tapering to nearly a single series posteriorly. 14 or 15 long, slender gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal VI-VII, I 32-39; preceded by a recumbent, anteriorly-directed spine, which is generally more or less embedded under the skin. Anal II, I 34-37. Length of pectoral 1 \ to if in that of head. Silvery, back darker; an elongate horizontal black blotch on side beneath the pectoral fi
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 6o DISCOVERY REPORTS adults; lower jaw projecting; bands of very small conical teeth in both jaws, tapering to nearly a single series posteriorly. 14 or 15 long, slender gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal VI-VII, I 32-39; preceded by a recumbent, anteriorly-directed spine, which is generally more or less embedded under the skin. Anal II, I 34-37. Length of pectoral 1 \ to if in that of head. Silvery, back darker; an elongate horizontal black blotch on side beneath the pectoral fin. Hob. Coasts of southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina; Patagonian-Falklands region. In addition to the above, there is a large specimen in the British Museum collection from Buenos Aires, a very small one from Rio Grande do Sul, and the type of the species (about 220 mm.) from Bahia Blanca, Northern Fig. 26. Parana signata. x CHEILODACTYLIDAE Cheilodactylus bergi, Chilodactylus macropterus (non Schneider), Perugia, 1891, Ann. Mus. Civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) x [xxx], p. 612; Berg, 1895, Anal. Mus. Nac. B. Aires, iv, p. 60; Lonnberg, 1907, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr., Fische, p. 7; Ribeiro, 1915, Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio Janeiro, xvn, Chilo- dactylidae, p. 2, fig.; Devincenzi, 1924, Anal. Mus. Montevideo (n) 1 (5), p. 227; Fowler, 1927, Proc. Acad. Philad., lxxviii, p. 272. 15. iii. 32. Port Madryn, Argentina. Hand line, 2 m.: 1 specimen, 142 mm. Depth of body 2§ to nearly 3 in the length, length of head 3^ to 3f. Snout longer than eye, diameter of which is 3! to 4 in length of head and about equal to interorbital width. Scales on upper surface of head not extending forward beyond a line between the nostrils. Maxillary extending to below the nostrils. 14 or 15 gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. 50 to 54 scales in a longitudinal series, 5 or 6 from origin of dorsal to lateral line. Dorsal XVII-XVIII 25-26; seventh spine apparently longest, its length abou
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