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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Family STICH.BID.E. 



Vivaria subbifurcala (Storer). 



Bean, 1884 (Eumcsogrammus subbifurcatus. Lo- 

 cality not stated, and perhaps not actually 

 taken within region); Jordan and Evermann, 

 1898, p. 2440 ("North Atlantic, south to Cape 

 Cod; very rare"); Kendall, 1908, p. 134 (not 

 recorded for local waters). 



Western portion of Vineyard Sound, only four 

 living specimens recorded. These were taken 

 during July and August, in the course of the 

 Survey dredging, at depths of 5 to 12 fathoms. 

 Mr. Edwards reports having found several 

 (perhaps 10 or 12) of these fishes in the crop of a 

 sheldrake shot near Robinsons Hole, Decem- 

 ber, 1907, or January, 1908. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7555$ (one, 6 cm. long), 

 7556$ (one, 8.5 cm. long), 76971. 



Phalarope station 53f (one, 4 cm. long). 



Family CRYPTACANTHODID^E. 



Cryptacanthodes maculatu-s Storer. Wrymouth, 

 ghostfish. 



H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 106; Smith and Kendall, 

 1898 (Cryptacanthus maculatus}; Jordan and 

 Evermann, 1898, p. 2443; Biological Notes, 

 No. i (1900); Kendall, 1908, p. 134. 



Woods Hole Harbor, in 1875; again in Decem- 

 ber, 1896, in a fyke net. Smith. Edgartown, 

 January, 1900, a specimen n inches long.- 

 Edwards. Dr. Smith reports having seen 

 several small specimens (an inch or less, in 

 length) from Woods Hole. 



Family AXARHICHADID.^ 



Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus. Wolffish, catfish. 

 H. M. Smith, 1898, p. ic6; Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, 1898, p. 2446; Kendall, 1908, p. 135. 

 Vineyard Sound, in traps and on cod lines, quite 

 rare. Smith. None seen for several years. 

 Edwards. 



Family ZOARCID^. 



Zoarces anguillaris (PeckV Eel pout. 



Bean, 1884; H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 106; Jordan 

 and Evermann, 1898, p. 2457; Kendall, 1908, 

 p. 135. 



Off Gay Head and Cuttyhunk , caught while fish- 

 ing for cod, during fall; occasionally in Vine- 

 yard Sound, off Great Harbor. Abundant 

 formerly, now less so. Edwards. At Fish 

 Hawk station 7731 (repeated July 30, 1907) a 

 small specimen was taken, which was referred 

 to this species with tolerable certainty. 



Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt. Eel pout. 

 Goode and Bean, 1895, p. 305; H. M. Smith, 



1898, p. 106; Jordan and Evermann, 1898, p. 



2465; Kendall, 1908, p. 136. 

 Vineyard Sound, taken by the Fish Hawk.- 



Goode and Bean. Not common. 



Family OPHIDIID.^. 



Leptophidium sp. a 



Sumner, 1909, p. 984. 



A fish which belongs with little doubt to thi- 

 genus was found by Mr. Edwards in the body 

 cavity of a large hake (Urophycis tennis), taken 

 in Woods Hole Harbor, May, 1908. The 

 stranger was enveloped by a covering of peri- 

 toneum. It measured 25 cm. in length and wa> 

 extremely hard and shrunken, having the con- 

 sistency of dried cod. though darker in color. 

 There were no traces of scales, or even of skin. 

 in most places, while the fin rays were wantir.^ 

 except at the caudal end, where some shreds 

 remained. The chief distinguishing character 

 was the frontal spine proper to the genus. The 

 hake had a seemingly unimpaired stomach. 

 filled at the time with a fair-sized whiting. 

 The Leptophidium had doubtless been swal- 

 lowed by the hake (probably at some distant 

 point, in deeper water) and had forced its way 

 out from the stomach of the latter fish into the 

 body cavity, becoming encysted as above 

 described. 



Family 

 Merluccius bilinear is (Mitchill). Silver hake, 



whiting. 



Baird, 1873 (Merlucius bilineatus); Bean, 1884; 

 H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 107; Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, 1898, p. 2530; Linton, 1901, p. 473; 

 Sharp and Fowler, 1904, p. 511; Kendall, 1908, 



P- J 37- 

 Buzzards Bay, Woods Hole, Vineyard Sound; 



abundant during fall, some years common in 

 summer. Taken in traps at Menemsha Bight, 

 constituting at times the greater part of the 

 catch. Young specimens dredged by the Sur- 

 vey at the western end of Vineyard Sound, in 

 waters 13 to 16 fathoms deep. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7575, 7582, 7583, 7586 (one, 

 10 inches long), 7592, 7598. 



Food: Fish, small Crustacea, many crabs (Pano- 

 peus). Linton. 



Parasites (Linton): Acanthocephala Echino- 

 rhynchus acus, E. proteits. Nematodes As- 

 caris clavata. Cestodes Dibothrium angus- 

 iatum, D. crassiceps, Pkyllobothriumsp. (imma- 



This is believed by Mr. L. Radcliffe to be Z.. cer-inum Goode & Bean. 



