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7. Raja stellulata (Jordan & Gilbert). 



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

 Harbor, Unalaska. Length, 21J inches. It has been compared with specimens from 

 Alaska, Washington, and California. The median row of spinous bucklers is inter- 

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

 and point opposite base of veutrals. Sides of tail without definite series of differen- 

 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 and 110 fathoms. 



8. Raja roseispinis Gill and Townseud. 



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

 Eaja obtusa being the young of the other. 



9. Raja iuterrupta 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. CatostomuB catostomus (Forster). 



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



Family SYNAPHOBRANCHID^E. 



12. Histiobrauchus bathybius (Giinther). 



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

 Gilbert as taken in Bering Sea by the Albatross. 



Family CLUPEID^E. 



13. Clupea pallasi Cuvier and Valenciennes. Pacific Herring. 



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

 Eecorded 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.<E. 



14. Ericara 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 

 Eiver at Nulato. 



