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and Bare Hole Fishing-' Grounds. They occur at Cape May- 

 Point, in Dela-ware Bay, about the Fishing Creek drum-beds, 

 and as far up, at least, as Egg Island. They were also reported 

 from over the Delaware breakwater. 



Family SQUALID^. 



Squalus acanthias Linnaeus. 



Spiny Dog Shark. 



Mr. W. J. Fox reported about 25 taken at Sea Isle City on 

 April 29th, 1906. About Cape May, Mr. H. Walker Hand re- 

 ports it from off Hereford Inlet, Five Fathom Bank and on or 

 about Old Eph's Shoal. The example described in Rep. N. J. 

 State Mus., 1905 (1906), p. (yj, was one of a pair taken on 

 McCrie's Shoal. 



Family RAJID^. 



Raja erinacea Mitchill. 



Hedge Hog Skate. 



Color of adult breeding female in life more or less warm 

 brown, surface of back more deep or rich brown than around 

 edges of disk, where somewhat translucent, and this latter especi- 

 ally on each side of snout. Back with rather obscure mottlings 

 of dusky-brown, most distinct down each side in middle of disk. 

 Iris white below, becoming golden-brown above, and with a 

 narrow golden circle around pupil, though above curtained with 

 several golden-brown points. Spiracles whitish inside. Dorsals 

 brownish, like back. Thorns all grayish to horn color. Lower 

 surface of body milky-white and margin of disk translucent, 

 especially on each side of snout. Length about 15 inches. A 

 few of these small skates were seen at Green Creek on May 

 5th, 1907, the male, as usual, less spiny than the female and 

 with very long claspers. The above-noted female contained ripe 

 ovaries. They were not so abundant as the next species. 



