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the collection of 1911 was divided between tliat institution and 

 the United States National Museum. The identifications are 

 bj Messrs. John T. Nichols and Barton A. Bean, curators of 

 fishes in these two great museums. 



SPECIES NEW TO NORTH CAROLINA. 



Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey). 



Sharp-backed Shark. 



About the middle of Julj, 1911, Coles took in the bight of 

 Cape Lookout a small greenish shark about 3 feet long. The 

 identification of this fish being in doubt, it was referred to that 

 veteran student of the Elasmobranchs. Dr. Samuel Garman, 

 who pronounced it to be Carcharhinus acronotus, heretofore 

 only described from Havana by Poey. Not only is it new to 

 North Carolina waters but so far as the writer knows to the 

 coast of the United States. 



Carcharhinus limbatus (Muller and Henle). 



Caconetta. 



In July, 1910, Coles collected at the Cape a shark which was 

 afterwards identified as Carcharhinus limhatus. This is the 

 first reported capture of this fish in our waters and, so far as the 

 writer knows, the second for the Atlantic coast — according to 

 Jordan and Evermann (1896) a single specimen having been 

 taken at Woods Hole in the early '80s. 



Whether the unknown shark referred to on page 141 of the 

 first paper of this series (Gudger 1912) is identical with either 

 of the above fishes cannot of course be said. If it should be, 

 then the writer by a faulty diagnosis lost the opportunity to 

 add it to the list of North Carolina fishes. But, as stated pre- 

 viously, sharks are so variable that the classification was not 

 pushed farther and the fish was thrown aside as a variation. 



Narcine brasiliensis (Olfers). 



Numb-fish. 



During his trip to Cape Lookout, in 1909, Mr. Coles, 



added to our fish fauna by collecting and bringing to the 



laboratory of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (sub- 



