466 NEW SPECIES OF FISHES FROM CALIFORNIA. 



of Selves marinm given by Prof. J. A. Ryder in the Bulletin of 



,„, o s Pish Commission, 1886, but Professor Ey<ler has evidently 



mistaken the character of the dictations described by him An exam- 



, on of the fresh gravid ovary proves beyond a doab t that the vas- 



1 digitations deseribed by him are merely the ruptured follicles 



which the eggs have escaped. The fact, however, that the folhcle 



^tat " ml Li highly vascular seems to indicate that ,t may, as 



Eyder baa suggested, serve to aerate the blood of the foetus. 



SAN DiESO, CAL., March i, 1889. 



