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32. Raja granulata* Gill. 

 Marine. 



"This new species is given in Messrs. Goode and Bean's list of N. E. American Fishes as 

 occurring on La Have fishing bank" (Jones, 1879). 



33. Raja rhina Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Marine. 



Recorded from Departure Bay, Vancouver Island: ranges from coast of Alaska southward 

 to Bay of Monterey, California. 



34. Raja binoculata Girard. 

 Big-Skate-of -California. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of Alaska southward to Bay of Monterey, California. 



35. Raja stellulata Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, southward to Santa Barbara, 

 California. 



36. Raja abyssicola Gilbert and Thoburn. 

 Deep Sea Ray. 



Bathybial. 



Off Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia: known from a single male specimen, 

 obtained at a depth of 1,588 fathoms. f 



37. Dasyatis centrura Mitchill. 

 Common Sting Ray. 

 Marine. 



May possibly be found in the Bay of Fundy as it is known to range from Cape Hatteras to 

 the coast of Maine. 



38. Chimsera affinis Capello. 

 Chimsra. 



Bathybial. 



Atlantic Ocean: said to occur on the American coast as far south as Cape Cod: "a specimen 

 collected on the south-eastern portion of La Have Bank": J Gulf Stream (Gill, 1877, as 

 Ch. plumbed), and Lat. 40° N., Long. 60° W., (Gill, 1883, as Ch. abbreviata) : recorded 

 from off the coast of Portugal (Giinther, 1880). 



39. Hydrolagus colliei Lay and Bennett. (Plate XIII, figures 154 and 155). 

 Ratfish. 



Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of Alaska southward to Bay of Monterey, California: 



"especially plentiful off South-eastern Alaska, and about the wharves at Esquimalt" 



(Bridge, 1910). 



*"A doubtful species, imperfectly described, apparently not different from R. lozvis." Jordan and Evermann. 



tNo ray was ever found at any such a depth as this before. A ray from a depth of 565 fathoms is included 

 in the list of deep-sea fishes obtained by the dredgings of the 'Challenger' (Giinther) ; and "R. mamillidens, a uniform 

 jet-black species, has been obtained from a depth of 597 fathoms in the Bay of Bengal" (Bridge), but so far as 

 available records show none have been obtained at a greater depth than some 600 fathoms except this one. 



{This specimen is figured in Drs. Jordan and Evermann's 'Fishes of North and Middle America,' vol. IV, pi. XIX. 



