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REPORT OP COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



* The number examined was too small to give valuable results by percentages. 



The following tables show the color of many lobsters in the seventh, 

 eighth, ninth tenth, and eleventh stages which were observed in 

 almost every case within four to twelve hours after moulting. The 

 terminology used to designate the colors is somewhat crude, but an 

 effort will be made at a later date to exchange for these terms those 

 of a standard color chart: 



