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the possession of large and darkly pigmented accessory organs may 

 easily divert the attacks of enemies from a defenceless but almost 

 transparent larval fish during the pelagic stage of its existence, and 

 this theory is to a certain extent borne out by the fact that the 

 decrease in size and loss of pigment would appear in Blennms to 

 coincide to some extent with the adoption of the habits and colours 

 of the adult. 



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2. Garstang.— il/. B. A. Journal, vi. p. 70 (1900). 



3. Holt.— ilf. B. A. Journal, v. p. 107 (1898), and Ann. Mus. Marsdlk, v. p. 5 



(1899). 



4. Holt.— P. Z. S., 1898, p. 314. 



5. ML-Iiitosli and Mastennan.— JJrihWi Marine Food Fishes, p. 206 (1897). 



