4i8 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



I have never seen any New Jersey examples. It has been 

 recorded as occurring in the Delaware River at the head of Bur- 

 lington Island, in 1883, by Dr. Charles C. Abbott. At that time 

 the island was said to form a gradual sloping shore, flat at its 

 upper end. It was discovered by means of bubbles which were 

 seen to eminate from certain depressions or holes in which the fish 

 was found buried. Dr. Charles C. Abbott tells me that the fish 

 was identified by Dr. J. De B. Abbott. During the summer 

 of 1903 I visited this locality without success, and since that 

 time the flat has been reported to have been w^ashed away. 



Lota maculosa Abbott, Nat. Rambles, 1885, p. 478. 



Genus Phycis Walbaum. 



The Hakes. .^ 



Key to the species. 



a. First dorsal not elevated, none of its rays filamentous ; scales about 80 

 to base of caudal. regius 



aa. First dorsal elevated, i or more rays filamentous; scales smaller, 100 or 

 more to base of caudal, 



h. Scales about 138. tenuis 



hh. Scales about 95 to no. chuss 



Phycis regius (Walbaum). 



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Hake. Phycis regius (Walbaum). 



Head ^Vs', depth 4^/8 ; D. VIII-47 ; A. 45; scales about 80 

 in a lateral series below lateral line to base of caudal, and about 

 7 more on latter ; 6 scales obliquely back from origin of spinous 

 dorsal to lateral line; 19 scales in a vertical series between origin 



