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32. Raja granulata* (iill. 

 Mai'ino. 



"This new species is given in Messrs. Goode and Bean's list of N. K. American Fislies as 

 occurring on La Have fishing hank" (.Jones. 1S79). 



33. Raja rhina .Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Marine. 



Ilecoi'ded from Departure Hay. \'anc()uver Island: ranges from coast of .Vlaska southward 

 to Bay of Monterey, California. 



34. Raja binoculata (Jirard. 

 Big-Skat e-of-Galifornia. 

 Marine. 



British Columhia: ranges from coast of .Vlaska southwai'd to l'>ay of ^fonterey, California. 



35. Raja stellulata .Ionian and (iilhert. 

 Marine. 



Bi'itish Columhia; ranges from Cnalaska. .\leutian Islands, southwai'd to Santa Barl)ara, 

 California. 



36. Raja abyssicola Gilhert and Thohurn. 

 Deej) Sea Ray. 



Bathyhial. 



Off Queen ChaiJotte Islands, iiritish Columhia: known from a single male specimen, 

 obtained at a depth of 1,.")8.S fathoms.f 



37. Dasyatis centrura Mitchill. 

 Common Sting Ray. 

 Marine. 



May possibly he found in the Bay of Fundy as it is known to range fi'om Cape Ilatteras to 

 the coast of Maine. 



38. Chimaera affinis Capello. 

 Chinucra. 



Bathyhial. 



Atlantic Ocean: said to occur on the .Vmerican coast as far south as Cape Cod: "a specimen 

 collected on the south-eastern portion of La Have Bank"":| Gulf Stream (Gill, 1877, as 

 Ch. pliimlHri). and Lat. 40° N., Long. 60° W., (Gill, 1883, as Ch. nhhremda): recorded 

 fi-om off tlie coast of Portugitl (Giinther, 1880). 



39. Hydrolagus colliei Lay and liennett. (Plate XIII, figures 1.54 and l.>5). 

 Rathsh. 



Marine. 



British Columliia: ranges from coast of .Vlaska southward to Bay of Montei-ey, California: 



"especially plentiful off South-eastern .Vlaska, and about the wharves at I'^squimaU/' 



(Bridge, 1910). 



*".\ doul)tful .species, imperfectly descriljed, apparently not different from /?. Iccvi^." Jordan and I^veiniann. 



•j-No ray was ever found at any such a depth as this Ijefore. A ray from a depth of 505 fathoms is inchulid 

 in the list of deep-sea fishes obtained liy the dredgings of the '('hallenger' (Gimther); and "fl. momiUidina, a uniform 

 jet-l)lack species, has been oljtained from a depth of 597 fathoms in the Bay of Bengal" (Bridge), but so far as 

 available records show none have been obtained at a greater depth than some 600 fathoms except this one. 



JTliis specimen is figured in Drs. Jordan and Evcrmann's 'Fishes of North and Middle .4nierica,' vol. IV, pi, XIX. 



