476 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



20. Phycis Chesteri, Goode & Bean. 



Phycis Chesteri, Goode & Bean, Pi-oc. U. S. Nat. Mns. i, 1878, p. 2.56 ; Cat. 

 Fish. Essex Co. & Mass. Bay, 1879, p. 8. 

 Numerous specimens, old and young, were found at stations 878, 142 

 fathoms; 879, 225 fathoms; 880, 252 fathoms: 881, 325 fathoms; 892, 

 487 fathoms ; 895, 238 ftithoms. 



Tliis species and Macrurus Bairdii appear to be the most abundant 

 fishes of this district, occurring in immense numbers and breeding 

 copiously. 



21. Phycis regius (Walbauni) Jordan & Gilbert. 



Blerinius rcglns, Walbaum, Artedi, 1792, p. 18G. 



Uropliycis rerjins, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 240. 



Fhijcis regius, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. i, 1878, p. 371. — 



Goode & Bean, Cat. Fish. Essex Co. & Mass. Bay, 1879, p. 8.— Bean, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. iii, 1880, p. 70. 

 Euclielyopus regalis, Schneider, Bkich. Syst. Ichth. 1 (cloth), 1801, p. 33. 

 Phycis regalis, Kaup, Archiv fiir Natnrg. 1858, p. 89. — Gill, Cat. Fish. E. 



Coast N. A. 1861, p. 49.— GtJNTiiEU, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns. iv, 18G2, p. 354. 

 " Gadus hlennioides, Mitciiill, Medical Register, 1814." 

 GadiUs %mnctatus, Mitchill, ibid.. 

 Phycis pnnvtntm, DeKay, Zool. N. Y. Fish. 1842, p. 292, pi. xlvi, fig. 149. 



A specimen was obtained at station 870, in 155 fathoms of water. The 

 distribution of this species is very i^uzzliug. It has been found at Hali- 

 fax, Nova Scotia, and south to the Cape Fear Kiver, but seems 

 nowhere abundant except about Long Island. 



22. Haloporphyrus viola Goode & Bean. 



HnJoporphyrns viola, Goode &. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns, i, 1878, p. 257 ; 

 Cat. Fish. Essex Co. &. Mass. Bay, 1879, p. 8. 



Specimens were taken October 2, at station 893, in 372 fathoms of 

 water. The species has never before been found except on the outer 

 edges of the Nova Scotia banks. 



23. Enchelyopus cimbrius (Liuu.) Jordan. 



Gadus cimbrius, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. x, i. 



Onos cimhrius, Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 1878, p. 349 (with 



fnll synonymy) ; Cat. Fish. Essex Co. & Mass. Bay, 1879, i). 8. 

 E»chclyo)ius cimbrius, Jordan, MSS. 



Several specimens were obtained outside the hundred-fathom curve. 



24. Merlucius bilinearis (Mitchill) Gill. 



Numerous si)ecimens of old and young were taken September 4, Sep- 

 tember 13, and October 2, in almost every haul of the trawl-nets, at what- 

 ever depth. The adults appeared to be in the middle of the spawning 

 season, the eggs being separated in the ovai-ies and flowing easily in 

 specimens taken at the depth of 250 and 487 fathoms. This phenomenon 

 is of the greatest interest and imi)ortance, since it may serve to illus- 

 trate how other species, common near the shores, such as the menhaden 

 {Brevoortia tyrannus) and the bluehsh {Pomatonms saltatrix), retreat 

 to deep water to spawn. 



