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Figure 36. Jiaja erinacea. A Male, 507 mm long, from Boston Harbor, Massachusetts (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 No. 1021). B Female, 443 mm long, from Mystic, Connecticut (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 1273). C Side 

 view of posterior part of tail of same, about 0.7 X. 



(Lat. 38°32' N), in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; three specimens 

 from Kamouraskai" (lower St. Lawrence River) and others in the U. S. National 

 Museum; also a considerable number, identified by us but not preserved, trawled by 

 the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross II and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service vessel Albatross III at stations scattered along the continental shelf off southern 

 New England and the mid-Atlantic United States. 



Distinctive Characters. Females of R. erinacea., and males in which the claspers 

 are still small, resemble specimens of R. ocellata so closely that the only sure means 

 of identification is by counting the teeth; R. erinacea never has more than 66 series, 



117. From v. D. Vladykov. 



