Bulletin American Museum of Natural History [Vol. LII 



Dredging Stations 

 U. S. S. 'Albatross' Lower California Cruise, 1911 



Polistotrema curtiss-jamesi, new species 

 The common hagfish, Polistotrema stouti, is frequently recorded 

 from depths down to several hundred fathoms, but perhaps specimens 

 from the depths have not been carefully compared with those from 

 shallow water. We have hagfish dredged from south of Monterey, 

 California, to west of the Santa Barbara Islands, approximate latitudes 

 36° to 34°, depths of from 440 to 585 fathoms, as follows: one from 

 station 5697 in 585 fathoms, one from station 5695 in 534 fathoms, three 

 from station 5696 in 440 fathoms, and one from station 5698 in 475 

 fathoms, and these show constant differences which we here recognize as 

 specific from P. stouti. They differ from it in two or three obvious 

 proportional measurements as follows: 



