PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 413 

 Tahle of measurements. 



Collector's number of specimen. 

 Locality 



150 



Port Townsiend, 



Wash. 



Inches 



and 

 lOOths. 



Extreme length 



Length to end of middle caudal rays . 

 Body : 



'Greatest height 



Height at vcntrals 



Least height of tail 



Head : 



Greatest length 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Length of maxillary 



Length of mandible 



Diameter of orbit 



Dorsal (rayed) : 



Distance from snout 



Length of base 



Height at fourth ray 



Dorsal (adipose) : 



Distance from dorsal 



Height at longest ray 



Anal: 



Distance from ventral base 



Length of base 



Height at longest ray (ca.) 



Caudal : 



Length of middle rays 



Length of external rays. 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Distance from dorsal outline 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Brauchiostegals 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Pectoral 



Ventral 



Number of scales in lateral line 



9.25 

 8.75 



lOOths 



of 

 length. 



6 



2J 



2Si 

 2| 



Hi 



9 

 12i 



3i 



55i 

 2i 

 5 



29i 

 2i 



11? 

 15 

 6 



24 



5 



50i 

 35 



Port Townsend, Wash., September 30, 1880. 



PBELiBMIIVARY IVOTffCE OF THE CKUSTACEA DREDCEI), IIV 64 TO 

 325 FATBIOMS, OFF THE SOVTKX COAST OF NEW EIVGI.AIVO, BIT 



THE tJiXlTE© STATES FISH COMMlSSaOlX EN 18S0. 



By S. I. SMITH. 



A general account of three short dredging trips of the United States 

 steamer Fish Hawk to the region, off the eastern end of Long Island, 

 known as tlie Block Island soundings, has already been given by Pro- 

 fessor Veirill in these Proceedings, and also in the American Journal of 

 Science for the present month (vol. xx, pi). 390-403), and need not be 

 repeated here, further than that the region examined is in latitude 39^ 

 46' to 40O 06' north, longitude 70° 22' to 71° 10' west, and that on the 

 first trip, September 3 to 5, eight hauls (stations 865 to 872) were made, 

 at depths ranging from 64 to 192 fathoms; on the second trip, September 

 12 to 14, nine hauls (stations 873 to 881) were made, in 85 to 325 fathoms J 



