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BULLETIN of the BUREAU of FISHERIES. 
Family Stich.T.id^. 
Ulvaria subbifurcata (Storer). 
Bean, 1884 ( Eumeso grammus subbifurcatus. Lo- 
cality not stated, and perhaps not actually 
taken within region); Jordan and Evermann, 
1898, p. 2440 (“North Atlantic, south to Cape 
Cod; very rare”); Kendall, 1908, p. 134 (not 
recorded for local waters). 
Western portion of Vineyard Sound, only four 
living specimens recorded. These were taken 
during July and August, in the course of the 
Survey dredging, at depths of 5 to 12 fathoms. 
Mr. Edwards reports having found several 
(perhaps 10 or 12) of these fishes in the crop of a 
sheldrake shot near Robinsons Hole, Decem- 
ber, 1907, or January, 1908. 
Fish Hawk stations: 7555! (one, 6 cm. long), 
7556$ (one, 8.5 cm. long), 7697+- 
Phalarope station 53! (one, 4 cm. long). 
Family Crvptacanthodid/E. 
Cryptacanthodes maculatus Storer. Wrymouth, 
ghostfish. 
H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 106; Smith and Kendall, 
1898 ( Cryptacanthus maculatus)', Jordan and 
Evermann, 1898, p. 2443; Biological Notes, 
No. 1 (1900); Kendall, 1908, p. 134. 
Woods Hole Harbor, in 1875; again in Decem- 
ber, 1896, in a fyke net. — Smith. Edgartown, 
January, 1900, a specimen n inches long. — 
Edwards. Dr. Smith reports having seen 
several small specimens (an inch or less, in 
length) from Woods Hole. 
Family Anarhichadid^. 
Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus. Wolffish, catfish. 
H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 106; Jordan and Ever- 
mann, 1898, p. 2446; Kendall, 1908, p. 135. 
Vineyard Sound, in traps and on cod lines, quite 
rare. — Smith. None seen for several years. — 
Edwards. 
Family Zoarcidaj . 
Zoarces anguillaris (Peck). Eel pout. 
Bean, 1S84; H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 106; Jordan 
and Evermann, 1898, p. 2457; Kendall, 1908, 
P- 135- 
Off Gay Head and Cuttyhunk , caught while fish- 
ing for cod, during fall; occasionally in Vine- 
yard Sound, off Great Harbor. Abundant 
formerly, now less so. — Edwards. At Fish 
Hawk station 7731 (repeated July 30, 1907) a 
small specimen was taken, which was referred 
to this species with tolerable certainty. 
Lycodes reticulatus Reinhardt. Eel pout. 
Goode and Bean, 1895, p. 305; H. M. Smith, 
1898, p. 106; Jordan and Evermann, 1898, p. 
2465; Kendall, 1908, p. 136. 
Vineyard Sound, taken by the Fish Hawk. — 
Goode and Bean. Not common. 
Family Opiiidiid.E. 
Lepiopkidium sp.“ 
Sumner, 1909, p. 984. 
A fish which belongs with little doubt to this 
genus was found by Mr. Edw T ards in the body 
cavity of a large hake ( Urophycis tenuis), taken 
in Woods Hole Harbor, May, 1908. The 
stranger was enveloped by a covering of peri- 
toneum. It measured 25 cm. in length and was 
extremely hard and shrunken, having the con- 
sistency of dried cod, though darker in color. 
There were no traces of scales, or even of skin, 
in most places, while the fin rays were wanting 
except at the caudal end, where some shreds 
remained. The chief distinguishing character 
was the frontal spine proper to the genus. The 
hake had a seemingly unimpaired stomach, 
filled at the time with a fair-sized whiting. 
The Leptophidium had doubtless been swal- 
lowed by the hake (probably at some distant 
point, in deeper water) and had forced its way 
out from the stomach of the latter fish into the 
body cavity, becoming encysted as above 
described. 
Family Mhreucciid.E. 
Merluccius bilinearis (Mitchill). Silver hake, 
whiting. 
Baird, 1873 ( Merlucius bilineatus)', Bean, 1884; 
PI. M. Smith, 1898, p. 107; Jordan and Ever- 
mann, 1898, p. 2530; Linton, 1901, p. 473; 
Sharp and Fowler, 1904, p. 51 1; Kendall, 1908, 
P- ^37- 
Buzzards Bay, Woods Hole, Vineyard Sound;, 
abundant during fall, some years common in 
summer. Taken in traps at Menemsha Bight, 
constituting at times the greater part of the 
catch. Young specimens dredged by the Sur- 
vey at the western end of Vineyard Sound, in 
waters 13 to 16 fathoms deep. 
Fish Hawk stations: 7575, 7582, 7583, 7586 (one, 
10 inches long), 7592, 7598. 
Food: Fish, small Crustacea, many crabs ( Pano - 
pens). — Linton. 
Parasites (Linton): Acanthocephala — Echino- 
rhynchus acus, E. proteus. Nematodes — As- 
caris clavata. Cestodes — Diboihrium angus- 
iatum, D. crassiceps, Phyllobothrium sp. (imma- 
"This is believed by Mr. L. Radcliffe to be L. cervinum Goode & Bean 
