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A perfect specimen was caught by Mr. Charles Clements, September 
7, and presented to the collection. 
Another fine individual was given to me by the same gentleman, 
September 9 ; it was caught at the wreck. 
On the 18th of September another one was taken on a hook by Bolton 
E. Steelman. 
This eel, known here as “ sea eel,” is taken not infrequently by anglers. 
93. Anguilla rostrata (Le Sueur). Eel. 
Anguilla tenuirostris Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 350. 
A small example was seined at Ocean City, August 4, and a great 
many small and large were taken at Beesley’s Point, near the river 
mouth, August 10 and 11. 
The species was sufficiently common in salt water in most parts of the 
bay, and particularly about the salt marshes. 
94. Raia eglanteria Lac6pede. Skate. 
A siugle example was obtained, August 28, at Somers Point. Several 
were caught with hooks, August 27, by fishing parties and thrown away. 
95. Raia Isevis Mitchill. 
A decayed example, apparently of this species, was picked up at Bees- 
ley’s Point, September 9, where it had been left by seiners. The teeth 
are in about 30 rows. There is a median row of strong spines on the 
tail, but no lateral rows on the portion remaining (part of the tail was 
cut off). The color is dark, and the snout does not seem to have been 
long enough for Icevis, but the dentition fits nothing else. 
96. Trygon iiastata De Kay. Stingaree. 
Pastinaca hastata Baird, Ninth Ann. Rep. Smith. Inst., 1855, 353. 
Two small individuals were caught in a large seine at Ocean City? 
August 1. Anglers have caught several of them in the bay. An ex- 
ample weighing 30 or 40 pounds was reported by Captain Chamberlain 
August 13. 
97. Myliobatis freminvillei (Le Sueur). Stingaree. 
A single example of moderate size was caught in the inlet near Long- 
port, August 29, by Mrs. Huston, who presented it to the National Mu- 
seum collection. 
Some of the crew of the menhaden steamer Annie Morris told me that 
about August 20, off* Hereford Inlet, they saw schools of stingrays at 
the surface “ flopping along like geese.” The schools were large enough 
to fill a menhaden seine. 
As the species was said to have two spines, I have placed the state- 
ment under Myliobatis. 
98. Sphyma zygaena (Linnseus). Shovel-nose shark. 
An individual, 25 inches long, was caught on a hook in the bay Au- 
gust 13, and another, 22 inches long, was given to me, August 10, by Silas 
