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Following are records of finds of this species not hitherto pub- 

 lished : 



Raja eglanteria. 



1905, August 8: 26, maximum length 10 mm.: length of bothriuin 

 0.67, breadth 0.25 ; length of hooks 0.14. August 12 : 1. August 21 : 

 3. There were also free proglottides which appeared to belong to 

 this species. All of them had small ova, with thin, collapsed shells. 



1910, July 21 : 12, length about 10 mm. 



1916, September 11: 1, length 18 mm. 



Dasyhatis een tmra . 



1903, September 1 : Few. 



1914, August 1 : 20, collected by Dr. G. A. MacCallum. 



1922, June 22: One sting ray examined; many small strobiles 

 and free proglottides in spiral valve. A. 'paulmn noted. The an- 

 terior ends of the bothria, in front of the hooks, were very mobile, 

 extending themselves into nearly linear prolongations. 



1923, July 20 : 2, 14 mm. August 15 :1, small. 

 (U.S.N.M., Helm. Coll. 7683.) 



ONCHOBOTHRIUM UNCINATUM Diesing. 



1897a, p. 44G, pi. 34, figs. 2-5. 

 1901, p. 433. 

 1905, p. 347, fig. 127. 

 1911, p. 586, 



This cestode has been found in the northern sting ray at Woods 

 Hole, and in the southern sting ray at Beaufort, N. C. ; following 

 are records not before published : 



Dasyhatis centimra. 



1914, August 1 : 3, found in a large sting ray examined by Dr. 

 G. A. MacCallum. 



1922, July 31:1; length in sea water, 68 mm. ; scolex white, neck 

 pale, becoming pinkish posteriorly ; posterior half of strobile sal- 

 mon color ; rather active. . There were four strongly developed 

 fascicles of longitudinal muscles in the neck, connected with the 

 bothria, and traceable throughout the length of the strobile. Di- 

 mensions in balsam: Length of bothrium, 0.77; length of hooks, 

 0.135; distance to first segments, approximately, 2.8; length of 

 porterior proglottis, 0.7, breadth 1.61. 



(U.S.N.M., Helm. Coll. 7684.) 



Genus PHOREIOBOTHRIUM Linton. 



This generic name was proposed to accommodate a cestode from 

 the dusky shark {C archarhinus ohscurus), 1889 (p. 474). Type spe- 

 cies, P. lasium. 



