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ENTEROPNEUSTA. 

 Balanoglossus, sp. 



A species of Balanoglossus was found this year burrowing in the 

 sand-flats on the north side of Long Bird Island. It was about 

 j5Qnim j,^ length. Its color was ocher-yellow to dull orange-brown. 

 Its structui-e has not yet been studied with care. No species of this 

 group has hitherto been reported from the Bermudas. 



LEPTOCARDIA. 



BrancJtiostonia Caribceuni Sund. • Lancelet, 



Sundevall, Olfers, Vet. Akad. Forhandl., xii, 1853. Andrews, Synopsis 

 Studies Biol. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., v, 4, p. 240, 1893. Jord. and 

 Everm., Fishes Amer., i, p. 3, 1896. 



Hitherto no locality for this Amjyhioxus has been known at Ber- 

 muda except on the west side of »the inlet at the Flatts, where it was 

 first discovered by Mr. Goode, in 1876. This year we dredged it on 



Figure 4. — Lancelet iBranchiustoma Carihcpvin). x IJ^. 



a bottom of hard shell-sand and mud, in Castle Harbor, about one- 

 half a mile north of Castle Island, in 15 to 20 feet of water. This is 

 also one of the localities for Strombus gigas. Another similar 

 locality, near Tucker's Island, in Great Sound, where Strombus 

 gigas is found, would very likely also yield the lancelet, 



FISHES. 



Carcharinus platyodon (Poey). Shark. 



Squalus platyodon Poey, Memorias, ii, p. 331, 1861. 



Carcharias platyodon Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 243, 1882. 



Cafcharinus platyodon Jord. and Ever., Fishes N. Amer., i, p. 39, 1896. 



A dead specimen of this species, about four feet long, was found 

 on the south beach near Tuckerstown, in April. It was badly 

 decomposed and only some teeth could be preserved. From these 

 the species has been identified by Mr. Samuel Garman. The color of 

 the upper side was grayish blue ; white below. 



It has been recorded from Cuba, Texas, and the Gulf of Mexico, 

 where it grows to a much larger size (10 to 15 feet long). 



