SKELETON OF LTJVARXTS IMPERIALI8, RAFINESQUE — WAITE. 297 



suhrugosa; and the characterising of Whale-food as "small 

 shrimps " by the Fisheries Inspector in connection with Luvarus^ 

 leaves little doubt as to the nature of the food of this fish. 



Day's opinion as to its being a vegetable feeder was deduced 

 only from an inspection of the intestines ; the entire absence of 

 teeth in the adult is another factor in favour of its habit as a 

 feeder on pelagic organisms. 



The author last writing on Luvarus is G. Kolombatovic'; but 

 not having access to his paper,'' I am unaware if he deals with 

 the skeleton. 



Since writing the paper I have seen the account and picture of 

 this fish published in the Scientific American^ a notice of which, 

 byDr.D.S. Jordan, reads as follows*: — "In the Scientific American 

 for December 21, Mr. 0. F. Holder publishes a photograph of 

 Luvarus imperialis, a large and rare tish of the Mediterranean, 

 lately taken at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, otf the coast of 

 California. There is no question as to the identity of the species 

 with the genus Luvarus, and no specific difference appears in Mr. 

 Holder's photograph, a copy of which the writer has seen." 



6 Kolombatovic — Druge. Zool. Vijest. iz Dalmaciji, ]900. 

 ' Holder — Scientific American, Ixxxv., 1901, p. 415. 

 ^ Jordan — American Naturalist, Ixxxvi., 1902, p. 336. 



