418 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
I have never seen any New Jersey examples. It has been 
recorded as occurring in the Delaware River at the head of Bur- 
lington Island, in 1883, by Dr. Charles C. Abbott. At that time 
the island was said to form a gradual sloping shore, flat at its 
upper end. It was discovered by means of bubbles which were 
seen to eminate from certain depressions or holes in which the fish 
was found buried. Dr. Charles C. Abbott tells me that the fish 
was identified by Dr. J. De B. Abbott. During the summer 
of 1903 I visited this locality without success, and since that 
time the flat has been reported to have been washed away. 
Lota maculosa Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 
Genus Puycis Walbaum. 
The Hakes. 
Key to the species. 
a. First dorsal not elevated, none of its rays filamentous; scales about 80 
to base of caudal. REGIUS 
aa. First dorsal elevated, 1 or more rays filamentous; scales smaller, 100 or 
more to base of caudal. 
b. Scales about 138. TENUIS 
bb. Scales about 95 to 110. CHUSS 
Phycis regius (Walbaum). 

Hake. Phycis regius (Walbaum). 
Head 344; depth 4%; D. VIII-47; A. 45; scales about 80 
in a lateral series below lateral line to base of caudal, and about 
7 more on latter; 6 scales obliquely back from origin of spinous 
dorsal to lateral line; 19 scales in a vertical series between origin 
