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7. Raja stellulata (Jordan & Gilbert). 



An adiilt female was takeu with hook aud line on the halibut bank at Dutch 

 Harbor, Unalaska. Leugth, 21;| inches. It has been compared with specimens from 

 Alaska, Washington, aud California. The median row of spiuous bucklers is inter- 

 rupted aloug middle of back in our specimen, none being present between shoulders 

 and point opposite base of ventrals. Sides of tail without definite series of difieren- 

 tiated spines, the spinous prickles of the upper surface of tail being somewhat enlarged 

 aterally ; no supraocular spines. 



Similar specimens were dredged off Karluk in 31 aud 110 fathoms. 



8. Raja roseispinis Gill and Townsend. 



Several specimens taken by the Albatross iu Bering Sea, the one described as 

 Raja obtusa being the young of the other. 



9. Raja interrupta Gill and Townsend. 



Bering Sea, in deep water. 



10. Raja aleutica Gilbert. 



Originally described from Sanuakh Pass, Aleutian Islands, Albatross station 

 3257, in 81 fathoms. A second large specimen dredged off Karluk in Shelikof Straits, 

 in 1897, station 3676, in 120 fathoms. 



Family CATOSTOMID^E. 



11. Catostomus catostomus (Forster). 



Obtained by Mr. Dall from the Yukon Eiver at Nulato. 



Family SYNAPHOBRANCHID^E. 



12. Histiobranchus bathybius (Giinther). 



Known from various localities in the Pacific. One specimen recorded by Dr. 

 Gilbert as takeu in Bering Sea by the Albatross. 



Family CLUPEID^C. 



13. Clupea pallasi Cuvier and Valenciennes. Pacific Herring. 



Common in Bering Sea, southward on both shores. Seen by us at Unalaska. 

 Recorded by Dr. Bean from Petropaulski, Unalaska, St. Michaels, and Port Clarence, 

 and by Dr. Gilbert from Unalaska and Herendeen Bay. The original type was from 

 Kamchatka. The species was described from Unalaska under the name of Spratel- 

 loides bryoporus by Cope. 



Family ALEPOCEPHALID.^. 



14. Brloara salmonea Gill and Townsend. 



One large specimen of this remarkable fish is known from the deep waters of 

 Bering Sea. 



Family SALMONID^E. 



15. Coregonus kennicotti Milner. 



Described from Fort Good Hope, British America; also recorded from Yukon 

 River at Nulato. 



