I would like to take this opportunity to report that the 17 mm and 8 - 10 mm 

 specimens which were described by Iiitken in 1880 as postlarval albacore, and the 

 figures of which I had reproduced in this journal with the observation that the 

 marked shortness of the first two or three spines of the first dorsal made it dif- 

 ficult to consider them as belonging to the Plecostei, have been reexamined by 

 Ehrenbaum, who reports that the Shortness of the spines is due to their having 

 been broken and that the specimens are unquestionably tunas. 



Works Consulted 



LiAtken — - Spolia Atlantica. Kj^benhavn. 1880. 



Kishinouye — The Larval Period of Plecostei. Suisan Gakkai Ho, III, 49. 1919. 



The Carangid-type Markings of the Skipjack. Suisan Gakkai H5, III, 



304. 1922. 

 Contributions to the Comparative Study of the So-called Scombroid 



Fishes. Journ. Coll. Agr. Tokyo. VIII 1923. 



Observations on the Skipjack Fishing Grounds. Suisan Gakkai H5, IV, 



87. 1924. 

 Ehrenbaum — Scombri formes. Rept. on Dan. Oceanogr. Exped. 1903-10 to Mediter. & 



Adjacent Seas. II. Copenhagen. 1924. 



Explanation of Figures 

 1-3 larval skipjack? 



4 late juvenile skipjack 



5 juvenile skipjack 



6 postlarval thunnid, big-eyed tuna? 



7 larval thunnid, yellowfin? 



8 larval Auxis? 



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