Upper Scorpius OB association Lithium survey. II.

The first part of this paper describes an extension of our large spectroscopic survey (Preibisch et al., published in 2001, Cat. <J/AJ/121/1040>) for low-mass pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in Upper Scorpius.

Using the multiobject spectrograph 2dF at the Anglo-Australian Telescope, we obtained spectra of 469 stars with magnitudes R=12.5-18.0 in a 6{deg}^2^ area, on he nights of 2001 May 16-17. Among these, we find 68 new PMS stars, nearly all of them M-type stars, by their strong lithium absorption lines. The total area covered by our 2dF survey is now 9 deg2 and contains 166 new PMS stars.