6 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History [Vol. LII 



Catulus cephalus Gilbert 

 One specimen from station 5680 in 389 fathoms and several from 

 station 5681 in 405 fathoms; approximate latitude 24°, north of Cape 

 San Lucas on the west coast of Lower California. 



Raja trachura Gilbert 



A male specimen 28 inches long, from station 5694 (southwest of 

 Santa Barbara Islands, California, approximate latitude 33°). in 640 

 fathoms. 



This differs from the type of R. trachura, apparently the only speci- 

 men of that fish previously described, 18 inches long and probably a 

 female (though we find no definite statement to that effect), in several 

 particulars which can be referred to age and sex. 



Eye smaller, 1% in interorbital, 4 in snout. No tubercle in center of 

 back between shoulders. A conspicuous patch of erectile hooks on the 

 pectoral, consisting of 22 rows, with five spines in the longest of these. 

 No median dorsal spines forward of pectoral angle. Color, fresh, 

 plumbeous. 



Raja microtrachys Osburn and Nichols 

 The type of R. microtrachys is from station 5673 (southwest of 

 San Diego, California, approximate latitude 31°) in 1090 fathoms, and is 

 so tagged. Osburn and Nichols erroneously attributed it to Guadaloupe 

 Island, the nearest shore station where collecting was done by the 'Alba- 

 tross' at this time, due to its having in some way become confused with 

 the shore material. 



So few specimens of deep-water skates allied to this and the preced- 

 ing have been collected that it is impossible to state with certainty how 

 many species should be recognized. Color, fresh, dark grayish brown. 



Harriotta curtiss-jamesi, new species 

 A single specimen of Harriotta six inches in total length and the 

 first fish of this genus to be recorded in the eastern Pacific is very similar 

 to Harriotta raleighiana, from the Atlantic, as described by Goode and 

 Bean in 'Oceanic Ichthyology.' Its eye is notably larger and the species 

 apparently a smaller fish than its Atlantic representative. This specimen 

 (No. 8342, American Museum of Natural History) is from station 5685, 

 645 fathoms, about 26° N. lat., off Lower California. 



Four specimens of H. raleighiana are described; three of these 

 similar, supposed to represent the adult form (of which the largest was 



