100 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
pelagic boreal amphipod, Euthemisto, which was taken frequently 
from this point on, while a swarm of Sagitta elegans gave a new aspect 
to the tow. Clione, too, was represented by several large specimens. 
There were neither Aurelia nor Cyanea so far off shore; but the four- 
foot net yielded several large Beroe cucumis, a cosmopolitan form 
already often recorded from the Gulf. Perhaps associated with the 
abundance of Calanus, were the numerous Wilson’s petrels which 
surrounded the ship as soon as we hove her to at this station. From 
Station 7 we ran in shore again, and worked for two days in Ipswich 
Bay, a region where I had previously found an abundant plankton, 
and which is proverbial for whales, sharks, etc., and the seat of an im- 
portant winter fishery. Calanus finmarchicus was still the prevalent 
organism, the nets bringing back a swarm of juveniles, besides several 
Euchaeta norvegica, great numbers of Sagitta elegans (Stations 8, 9, 
10, 11, 12b), Tomopteris helgolandica, represented by a very large 
specimen in the quantitative haul at Station 11, and, among Medusae, 
Aurelia and Cyanea in large numbers, with a few Melicertum campan- 
ula, and Phialidium languidum. 'The latter species we found very 
widely distributed in the coastal waters of the Gulf. 
But the most important feature of Ipswich Bay, to us, was the 
immense number of pelagic fish eggs, largely Urophycis chus: and a 
haul of the eight-foot beam trawl for thirty minutes at Station 8 
yielded the following large haul of fishes; twelve skates (Raja radiata) 
two Aspidophoroides monopterygias, four Zoarces anguillaris; twenty 
silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis,) two hake (Urophycis regius), 
thirty-four squirrel hake, (Urophycis chus), two rocklings (En- 
chelyopsis cimbrius), forty-one sanddabs (Hippoglossoides ~plates- 
soides), six rusty flounders, (Limanda ferrugnea), forty-eight witch 
flounders (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), and seven large goosefish (Lo- 
phius piscatorius). The squirrel hake (Urophycis chus) were full of 
ripe eggs and milt; and comparison of their eggs, fertilized on board, 
with the pelagic eggs taken in the tow, established the identity of the 
most abundant of the latter as belonging to this species. This dis- 
covery is of great interest, because very little is known of the early 
stages of any members of this genus, and nothing of this particular 
species. It, and the other fishes will be described by Mr. W. W. Welsh. 
Meantime it may be noted here that the fish were spawning in twenty- 
two fathoms, temperature 42.4°, salinity 32.39% . In spite of the great 
numbers of pelagic eggs, Ipswich Bay and the waters immediately to 
the north yielded but few fry, except for the sanddab (Hippoglos- 
soides), of which twenty-four specimens of 10-22 mm. were taken at 
