REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 151 



Reproduction: Eggs, probably of this species, were taken among 

 the oyster shells in Wickford Harbor the last of December, 1909. 

 Eggs are about ^ inch (2 mm.) in diameter, clear and glassy, with an 

 oil globule; they are laid from November to January, and hatch a 

 month or six weeks afterward. The larva when hatched is 2-5 inches 

 in length (9 mm.). The yolk is absorbed in specimens a little over 

 ^ inch in length (13 to 14 mm.). 



Rate of Growth: Two specimens about four inches long (98 and 108 



mm.) were taken among the oyster shells in Wickford Harbor, the last 



of December, 1909. The adult reaches a length of twelve inches. 

 References: 



1890: McIntosh and Prince, Trans. Roy. Soc, Edinburgh, XXV, 670. 



1891: McIntosh, Report' Fisheries Board of Scotland, 9, 326. 



1893: Holt, Sci. Trans. Roy. Soc, Dublin, V, 42. 



1897: McIntosh and Masterman, British Marine Food Fishes, 210. 



190.5: Ehrenbaum, Nordisches Plankton, 4, 87. 



172. Ulvaria subbifurcata (Storer). Radiated shanny. 



Geog. Dist.: Very rare in the North Atlantic, south to Newport. This 

 species was taken by U. S. Fish Commission at Grand Manan and 

 Halifax, and by Prof. Verrill off Anticosti (Bean, 1903). In New 

 England, it was taken by Storer at Nahant (1839 and 1867). On the 

 Maine coast it has been taken at Casco Bay (1874), and off Manticus 

 (1906) (Kendall, 1908). It has been recorded from New York waters. 



Habitat: Cornish (1907) reports four specimens from Canso, one taken 

 on the beach under stones, two were dredged in six to ten fathoms of 

 water, and the fourth taken in a beam-trawl in the Bay in thirty 

 fathoms of water. 



Season in R. I.: A single specimen was obtained off the mouth of New- 

 port Harbor (Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 3, 1886, 477.) 



Size : This species reaches a length of about six inches. 



CRYPTAC.iXTHODID^. The Wry-mouths. 



173. Cryptacanthodes maculatus (Storer). Wry-mouth; Ghost- fish. 



Geog. Dist.: Recorded from Labrador to Long Island Sound. Rarely 

 on New England coast from Eastport, Maine (Kendall, 1893) to 

 Bridgeport, Connecticut (Linsley, 1844). At Woods Hole a specimen 

 eighteen inches long was taken on December 18, 1896, in a fyke net 



