292 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [DeC, 



NOTES ON NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, AND VIRGINIA FISHES 



BY HENRY W. FOWLER 



The notes and records given below are chiefly gathered from col- 

 lections made for the Museum of the Academy during 1919. A few 

 others, made previously and used in this connection, are included. 

 An interesting addition to the fauna of New Jersey is recorded, be- 

 sides notices of rare and little-known species. The records are con- 

 densed and exhibit only briefly the more important items in the 

 great mass of material examined. Acknowledgment for assistance 

 in procuring material is herewith given but as the names of most of 

 the contributors have appeared elsewhere the names are not repeated. 



New Jersey. 



Material was collected and studied in the field with Dr. R. O. Van 

 Deusen during the past season, in Salem County, as follows : basin 

 of Alloway Creek in Deep Run with its enlarged artificial ponds 

 "Lake Tranquility" and "House's Pond" (August 29); Alloway 

 Creek tidal, "Diamond Pond, "and mill-race at Alloway (August 30) ; 

 "Maskell's Pond," in Stow Creek basin (August 31). In Cumber- 

 land County (on September 2) : the fresh-waters of the mill-pond at 

 Newport and the brackish and salt estuary of Nantuxent Creek were 

 explored to Delaware Bay. 



A few old specimens of New Jersey fishes in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, from Avalon, Beach Haven, Ludlam Bay and Sea 

 Isle City, were examined through the kindness of Dr. J. Percy Moore. 



Notes from the excursions of the Philadelphia Aquarium Society 

 to May's Landing, in May, 1919, were sent by Mr. W. T. Innes; 

 others were received from Dr. R. J. Phillips, taken at Corson's Inlet 

 during his summer residence there; and finally Dr. R. 0. Van Deusen 

 made a full list of the fishes captured in the nets at Atlantic City 

 during the entire season until November. 



Petromyzon marinus Linne. Few in the spring at Atlantic City. 



EuLAMiA milberti (Miiller and Henle). Large one at Atlantic 

 City during June. Other abundant sharks were Carcharias taurus, 

 Mustelus mustelus, and Squalus acanthi as, the last only in the fall, 

 when common. 



