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271. Acrotus willoughbyi Bean. 

 Ragfish. 



Bathybial. 



Known from the States of Washington and California: given here as likely to be found in 

 British Columbian waters. 



272. Zaprora silenus Jordan. 

 Prowfish. 



Marine. 



Only two specimens known, one from Nanaimo (the type,* which is in the Provincial Mu- 

 seum, Victoria) and the other from the Straits near Victoria, Vancouver Island. 



273. Merluccius bilinearis Mitchill. (Plate IX, figures 87 and 88). 

 Silver Hake: Whiting. 



Marine. 



Ranges from the coast of Labrador, embracing Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Mari- 

 time Provinces, and the New England States, southward to the Bahama Islands. 



274. Merluccius productus Ayres. 

 Pacific Hake. 



Marine. 



Ranges from British Columbia (according to Goode from Alaska) and Puget Sound south- 

 ward to Santa Catalina Island. 



275. Boreogadus saida Lepechin. 

 Northern Pollack. 



Marine: hiding in holes in floating ice. 

 ' Arctic regions of America and Asia, extending from Greenland to Siberia: recorded from 

 Labrador: also said to occur on coasts of Europe — no doubt far north. 



276. Pollachius virens Linnaeus. (Plate IX, figures 89 and 90). 

 Pollack: Coalfish. 



Marine. 



Both sides of north Atlantic: recorded from Davis Straits :f Maritime Provinces south- 

 ward to State of New York: "on the shores of Spitzbergen;" "in all the northern 

 seas and in the Baltic;" Orkney and Shetland Islands; coasts of England; "on the 

 Irish coast from Waterford along the eastern shore to Belfast;" and "very abundant 

 on the western and northern coasts of Scotland" (Yarrell, 1859): "occurs about Ice- 

 land" (Goode, 1888) : on the European side at least as far south as the coast of France. J 



*The type specimen is figured in Drs. Jordan and Evermann's 'Fishes of North and Middle America,' vol. IV, 

 pi. CLII. 



f'The fry, under four or five inches in length, were caught with the trawl-net on the west coast of Davis 

 Straits, during the first voyage of Captain Sir Edward Parry." Yarrell. 



^''Concerning the limits of its southern range authorities differ. Gimther places this at latitude 46° in the 

 Bay of Biscay, whilst others claim that it enters the Mediterranean. Canestrini states that it has been observed 

 at Taranto. It does not appear, however, that the species is abundant south of the English Channel." Goode. 



