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[[underline]] Macrurus acrolepis [[/underline]]  Bean, a new species described in Proc. Nat. Mus. for 1883, pp. 362-363.  This is the first specimen of the genus known from the eastern Pacific.

[[double underline]] U.S. Fish Commission [[/double underline]]  Off [underline] southern New England Coast and southward to Chesapeake Bay.  [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Accession    ; Catalogue [[/underline]] 33266-33587.

This large collection was made mainly by the parties on the steamers "Albatross" & "Fish Hawk", in depths varying from 35 to 2949 fathoms.  In this greatest depth the following fishes were taken:  [[underline]] Cyclothone lusca [[/underline]] (many), [[underline]] Scopelus [[/underline]] sp.. (three), [[underline]] Alepocephalid [[/underline]] juv. (one), [[underline]] Mancalias uranoscopus (=Typhlopsaras shufeldtii) [[/underline]] (one), [[underline]] Plectromus [[strikethrough]] Melamphaës [[/strikethrough]] [[/underline]] (one). The collection embraced many of the species recently described by Goode & Bean from specimens trawled by the "Blake", but not previously in the National Museum,  and there was, besides, a goodly number of new forms which have been for the most part briefly characterized by Prof. Gill and Mr. J. A. Ryder.

Of the "Blake" species the summer explorations yielded the following: