. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. ZOARCIDAE 101 cross-bars on back and upper parts of sides; usually with numerous smallish, rounded or oblong, pale yellowish or white spots scattered over head and upper parts of body, extending on to the dorsal fin; these spots are large and very distinct in some large individuals (? males), in which the ground colour is dark brown or black (Plate I, fig. 4); in other large specimens (? females) the spots are few, smaller and less prominent; a more or less distinct brown or black band directed
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. ZOARCIDAE 101 cross-bars on back and upper parts of sides; usually with numerous smallish, rounded or oblong, pale yellowish or white spots scattered over head and upper parts of body, extending on to the dorsal fin; these spots are large and very distinct in some large individuals (? males), in which the ground colour is dark brown or black (Plate I, fig. 4); in other large specimens (? females) the spots are few, smaller and less prominent; a more or less distinct brown or black band directed forward from the eye, sometimes uniting with that of the opposite side on the end of the snout; sometimes another but less distinct band from eye to operculum; usually a series of black spots at edge of anterior part of dorsal fin; anal plain or with similar spots; pectoral uniformly yellowish (young), with a large dusky area and a pale hinder margin (half-grown), or dark brown or black with round white spots (large males?). Hab. Coasts of Argentina; Patagonian-Falklands region; Straits of Magellan; southern Chile. In addition to the above, there are 8 specimens (80-145 mm.) in the British Museum collection from the Falkland Islands and the Chiloe Archipelago, including the type of the species (145 mm.) and the types of Lycodes variegatiis (100, 120 mm.).. Fig. 50. Iluocoeles fimbriatm. x \. Examination of the large series of specimens listed above reveals considerable variation, not only in the coloration and in the height of the dorsal fin, but also to some extent in the size of the eye and of the cleft of the mouth: I am convinced, however, that they are all referable to a single species. Comparatively few of the specimens have ripe gonads, but, judging from the individuals which I have been able to sex, it seems fairly certain that the large, white-spotted specimens with an exception- ally high dorsal fin (Plate I, fig. 4), described by Lahille as Caneolepis acroptenis, are
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