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33848. Blenny not yet made out. 



33849. Agonid not yet identified. 



338G9. Bathymaster signatus, Cope, from Bering Island, greatly 



extending its range. 

 33870. Gymnclis, from Copper Islaud. There is a splendid lot of 

 Cottoids and also of Salmonoids which will throw much light 

 on the relations of the Kamtchatkan fauna to that of Alaska. 

 Capt. Thomas Stratton (through Jas. G. Swan), Port Angelos, Wash. Ter. 

 Catalogue, 32547. This was an example of Delolepis virgatus, Bean, 

 and is the third example known to be preserved. It was picked up 

 on the beach. Mr. Swan writes that "specimens are occasionally 

 but rarely seen in the Victoria market." 

 James G. Swan, Port Townsend, Wash. Ter. Accession 12647 ; cata- 

 logue, 32492-32503. Mr. Swan had in this collection the following 

 among other species: Brama rail, whose occurrence in the North 

 Pacific he was the first to detect. Macrurus acrolepis, Bean, a new 

 species described in Proc. Nat. Mus. for 1883, pp. 362-363. This is 

 the first specimen of the genus known from the Eastern Pacific. 

 U. S. Fish Commission, off Southern New England coast and southward to 



Chesapeake Bay. Accession ; catalogue, 33266-33587. This 



large collection was made mainly by the parties on the steamers 

 "Albatross" and "Fish Hawk," in depths varying from 35 to 2,949 

 fathoms. In this greatest depth the following fishes were taken : 

 Gyclothone lusca (many), Scopelus sp. (three?), Alepocephalid juv ; (one), 

 Mancalias uranoscopus (one), Plectromus (one). The collection em- 

 braced many of the species recently described by Goode & Bean, from 

 specimens trawled by the "Blake," but not previously in the Na- 

 tional Museum, and there was, besides, a goodly number of new forms 

 which have been for the most part briefly characterized by Professor 

 Gill and Mr. J. A. Ryder. 



Of the " Blake " species the summer explorations yielded the follow- 

 ing: Chalinura simula, Goode & Bean; Goryphamoides carapinus, Goode 

 & Bean ; Afacrurus asper, Goode & Bean ; Bathysaurits agassizii, Goode 

 & Bean; Halosaurus macrochir, Gunther; Alepocephalus agassizii, 

 Goode & Bean ; Lycodonus mirabilis, Goode & Bean ; Dicrolene intro- 

 niger, Goode & Bean. The new species were first noticed in part in 

 Forest and Stream of August 30, 1883, and again in a subsequent issue ; 

 afterwards (November 27, 1883) a more extended paper based upon 

 this material was published in Proc. Nat. Mus., volume vi, pages 253- 

 273. 



Professor Gill also published in Nature a note upon the affinities of 

 the Eurypharyngidw, contrasting them more especially with Sacco- 

 pharynx. It is to be hoped that the new species will soon be fully 

 described, for, without the typical specimens, it would be very diffi- 



