BARBOUR: NOTES OX BERMUDIAX FISHES. Ill 



PLAGIOSTO.Air. 



GALEIDAE. 



Carcharhinus platyodon (Poet). Puppy Shark. 

 Verrill, :01, p. 55. 

 Distribution. — Coasts of Texas and Cuba. 



Very common off the Challenger Banks and outside the reefs. Considered 

 a fine food fish by the colored people. The only specimen preserved was iden- 

 tified by Mr. Garman as belonging to this species. 



TELEOSTEI. 



ANGUILLIDAE. 



Anguilla chrisypa Haf. Eel. 

 A. bostoniensis (Le Sueur) Ayres. Goode, '76^, p. 71. 



Distribidio7i. — Atlantic coast (ascending rivers); West Indies. 



Said to be common in ditches in Devonshire Marshes. The specimens, seven 

 in number, were all obtained in mud-holes near the mangrove swamp at 

 Hungry Bay. I found four there in April, 1903, and three in July, 1903. 

 The largest specimen was about 4 inches in length. The only water connection 

 of this swamp was directly with the ocean, and as no eels have ever been taken 

 off the shores of Bermuda, it puzzles me to know how such young eels got 

 into the mangrove swamp. The Devonshire Marshes, so far as I could learn, 

 have no connection with the ocean ; the water there is only slightly brackish. 



MURAENIDAE. 

 Lycodontis moringa (Guv.) Spotted Jloray. 



Gymnothorax moringa (Guv.) Goode. Goode, 'IS^, p. 72. 



Distribution. — West Indies; North coast of South America; St. Helena. 



This species with the larger L. funebris (Ranzani) was quite common about 

 all the reefs, particularly off the south shore, where many are taken by fishing 

 from the rocks. The specimen before me was taken during the " Challenger 

 Bank Expedition" — a three-days trip provided by Captain Meyer, of St. 

 George's, for the members of the Biological Station about the first of August, 

 1903. The flesh is eaten by the negroes, who say that it is sugary-sweet, and 

 very tender; I heard nothing of its being considered poisonous. 



L. sanctae-helenae (Gujjther). 



Distribution. — Tropical Atlantic; St. Helena. 



A single example taken in 1904 ; compared with the preceding this species 

 is rather rare. 



