Vol. XXVI, pp. 97-110 May 3, 1913 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON NATURAL HISTORY NOTES ON SOME BEAUFORT, N. C, FISHES,— 1912. BY E. W. GUDGER. State Normal College, Greensboro, N. C. The following notes are in part based on fishes collected during a brief visit to the Beaufort Laboratory of the United States Bureau of Fisheries in the closing days of May, 1912; in part on collections made by Mr. Russell J. Coles of Danville, Va., at Cape Lookout during July and August of the same year, the notes concerning which he has been so kind as to put in my hands; and in part from miscellaneous sources.* These Notes for 1912 are published in continuation of similar ones made in 1909 and in 1910-11 (Gudger 1910, 1912, 1912a, 1912b,), and it is hoped may not be devoid of value to students of ichthyology. Elasmobranchii. Carcharhinus lamia (Rafinesque). (?) CUB SHARK; REQUIN; LAMIA. On July Coles captured in the bight of Cape Lookout a female shark, 8% feet long and having a circumference of A% feet, which he provision-ally identified as Carcharhinus lamia. He has twice before, once at the Cape and once at Beaufort, taken sharks which he thinks to be identical witli this one. If this provisional identification is corroborated, another new shark will he added to the fish fauna of our coast through the work of Mr. Coles. In this connection the conjecture may he offered that there are probahly to be found at the Cape other sharks which have never yet been noted as occurring in our waters. * I must again express my great indebtedness to Dr. H. M. Smith's Fishes of North Carolina, a work invaluable to the students of the ichthyologieal fauna of North Carolina. 25— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. XXVI, 1913. (97)
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