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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Family Blenuiidae — Continued. 
Hypsoblennius hentz (LeSueur). Spot- 
ted seaweed fish 
Spawning 
Descriptions of the eggs and 
young 
Distribution of the young 
Growth 
Hypleurochilus geminatus (Wood) 
Blenny 
Spawning 
Descriptions of the eggs and 
young 
Distribution of the young 
Growth 
Chasmodes bosquianus (Lac6pede). 
Banded blenny 
Spawning 
Descriptions of the eggs and the 
newly hatched young 
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The hakes of the genus Urophycis 612 
Key to the species 613 
Spawning 613 
Descriptions of the eggs and young 614 
Distribution of the young 626 
Growth 627 
Archirus fasciatus Lac6pede. American 
sole 630 
Characters of the adult 630 
Methods of collecting 630 
Spawning 631 
Descriptions of the eggs and young. . 632 
Growth 640 
Bibliography 640 
INTRODUCTION 
The following accounts of the development and life history of a miscellaneous 
group of teleostean fishes is a continuation of earlier studies by the same authors, 
published in the Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, volume XL VI, 1930, 
pages 383 to 488, and volume XLVIII, 1934, pages 41 to 117 (see Bibliography). 
Most of the specimens and data used were collected at Beaufort, N. C. However, 
some of the specimens and data were secured elsewhere, principally by Dr. Lewis 
Radcliffe and the late William W. Welsh, working aboard the Fisheries vessels 
Albatross, Fish Hawk, and Grampus. 
The authors were very materially assisted in the field work, carried on from 1925 
to 1932, by the various members of the staff of the United States Fisheries Biological 
Station at Beaufort, N. C., especially by Dr. James S. Gutsell and Capt. Charles 
Hatsel, who accompanied one or both of the writers on many trips, and also 
collected independently. 
The drawings presented herewith were prepared by the junior author, unless 
otherwise stated in the legends. The junior author, also, did much of the tedious 
work of sorting the young fishes from other forms and the general debris usually taken 
in towings, and made some of the preliminary identifications. The senior author, 
under whose direction the work was carried on, is responsible for final identifications, 
the interpretation of the data, and for the preparation of the manuscript. 
The principal collecting stations are indicated with small circles on the map (fig. 
1). One-meter tow nets, one at the surface and one on the bottom, hauled simultane- 
ously, were the only nets used at the farthest offshore stations. At the stations near 
shore, and at those in the partly enclosed waters, otter trawls and beam trawls also 
were used. Furthermore, collecting seines, particularly small ones made of bobbinet, 
were employed along the shores both in the inside waters and along the outside beaches. 
An otter trawl having the cod-end surrounded by bobbinet, built as a modified 
1 -meter tow net, with the collar laced to the meshes of the trawl, was found very useful 
for collecting young fish. The fish taken in the bobbinet generally were past the larval 
stage and too active to catch with an ordinary 1-meter tow net, yet small enough to pass 
through the one-fourth inch square mesh of the collecting trawl. This apparatus 
proved very satisfactory at Beaufort, where there is little or no rough or rocky bottom. 
