Vol. XXVI, pp. 97-110 May 3, 1913 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON SOME BEAUFORT, 

 N. C, FISHES,— 1912. 



BY E. W. GUDGER. 



State Normal College, Greensboro, N. C. 



The following notes are in part based on fishes collected during 

 a brief visit to the Beaufort Laboratory of the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries in the closing days of May, 1912; in part 

 on collections made by Mr. Russell J. Coles of Danville, Va., at 

 Cape Lookout during July and August of the same year, the 

 notes concerning which he has been so kind as to put in my 

 hands; and in part from miscellaneous sources.* 



These Notes for 1912 are published in continuation of similar 

 ones made in 1909 and in 1910-11 (Gudger 1910, 1912, 1912a, 

 1912b,), and it is hoped may not be devoid of value to students 

 of ichthyology. 



Elasmobranchii. 

 Carcharhinus lamia (Rafinesque). (?) 



CUB SHARK; REQUIN; LAMIA. 



On July Coles captured in the bight of Cape Lookout a female shark, 

 8% feet long and having a circumference of A% feet, which he provision- 

 ally identified as Carcharhinus lamia. He has twice before, once at the 

 Cape and once at Beaufort, taken sharks which he thinks to be identical 

 witli this one. If this provisional identification is corroborated, another 

 new shark will he added to the fish fauna of our coast through the work 

 of Mr. Coles. In this connection the conjecture may he offered that there 

 are probahly to be found at the Cape other sharks which have never yet 

 been noted as occurring in our waters. 



* I must again express my great indebtedness to Dr. H. M. Smith's Fishes of North 

 Carolina, a work invaluable to the students of the ichthyologieal fauna of North 

 Carolina. 



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