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Another example, evidently the present species, taken from Con- 

 way Bay, Indefatigable Island, Galapagos, June 24. Represented 

 by a section of jaw with four teeth, tip of pectoral, and portion of 

 skin, and agrees with the Chatham Bay material. 



A third specimen taken in Wreck Bay, Chatham Island, July 6. 

 Of the large female, portions of the left pectoral fin, upper 

 preserved. 



EULAMIA sp.7 



From 70 miles south of Panama, August 15. Piece of fin, teeth, 

 and other parts. 



Family MOBULIDAE 



^v MANTA BIROSTRIS (Walbaum) 



The following items, all portions or materials from several of these 

 great rays, are preserved ; detailed observations under the name " sea 

 bats " are well set forth in Governor Pinchot's recent volume on the 

 expedition, To the South Seas : 



Tail without any trace of spine, piece of skin, and other parts. 

 Length of tail, 1,400 mm. All from Ua Huka Island, Marquesas 

 Islands, September 20. 



Three portions from specimen taken at Ua Huka, September 25. 

 Head with rolled cephalic fin 350 mm. long, directed forward. Por- 

 tion of end of pectoral fin. Short ventral fin with clasper, latter not 

 reaching hind fin edge. 



Also tail and portions of skin of example from Ua Huka, Septem- 

 ber 25. With this, bottle of stomach contents, mostly necton or 

 copepod crustaceans. 



Piece of skin of example caught at entrance to Obi Tufa Bay, Eiro 

 Island, Marquesas Islands. 



JaAvs of a large example as dry preparation, without exact data. 

 Upper edentulous jaw 920 mm. wide. Lower jaw 1,200 mm. wide, 

 dentary area 610 mm. as measured over surface. Teeth estimated in 

 416 transverse rows, in which there are 7 to 10 short truncate or 

 obtuse small teeth, the crown of each from nearly level to convex. 



In the academy, gill arches from a large example from Shavay 

 Bay, Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, September 21. 



Family CLUPEIDAE 



HARENGULA PUNCTATA (Ruppell) 



One in the academy, 74 mm. long, from Taiohae, Nukuhiva, Mar- 

 quesas Islands. Taken in tide pools, September 26. Maxillary 

 reaches one-fourth in eye. Gill rakers 23 + 35, finely lanceolate. 



