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Family ECHINORHINID.E. 



180. Echinorhinus spinosus (Gmel.') Blainville. SPINOUS 

 SHARK. Echinorhinus spinosus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 

 1870, p. 428. A single specimen of this species, the first seen in Amer- 

 ica, drifted ashore at Provincetown in December, 1878. 



Family SCYMNLLXE. 



181. Somniosus microcephalus (Block.} Gill. SLEEPER SHARK. 

 Scymnus brevipinna Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 259, pi. xxxviii, 

 fig. 2. Scymnus brevipinna was described by Lesueur in 1818 from a 

 stuffed specimen he saw at Marblehead. Storer mentions a specimen 

 he saw at Marblehead. Storer mentions a specimen taken off Port- 

 land, Me., in 1846, and one at Nahant, as well as three at Province- 

 town, in 1848-9. 



Class MAKNIPOBIIAUFCHII. 



Order H YPE RO ARTIA. 



Family PETROMYZONTID.E. 



182. Petromyzon marinus Linn. LAMPREY EEL. Petromyzon 

 americanus Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 275, pi. xxxviii, fig. 4. 

 Occasionally seen, especially in the rivers. The Essex Institute has 

 a specimen found clinging to a pollock in Salem market, May 25, 1858, 

 and also young individuals from Beverly. 



Order HYPEROTRETA. 

 Family MYXINID2E. 



183. Myxine glutinosa Linn. HAG, SLIME-FISH. Myxine gluti- 

 nosa Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, p. 510. Occasionally taken 

 in deep water clinging to dead fish. The Fish Commission obtained 

 specimens in the trawl, at 175 fathoms, forty-two miles east of Cape 

 Ann. It was also dredged by Packard and Cooke in the "Bache," in 

 1873. 



ADDENDUM. 



92a. Lampris guttata Rebz. Mr. J. Matthew Jones informs us 

 of the capture of this European species near Sable Island, N. S. 



