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tification was correct and merely noted that the ^''Pterophryne^ ' the 

 marbled angler ' of the Sargasso Sea, is especially adapted to live 

 among the floating algse, to which it clings with its pediculated fins, 

 and in which it intertwines its gelatinous clusters of eggs." 



Professor Agassiz, in his original article, did not notice any fila- 

 ments connected directl}^ with the eggs he observed, and the present 

 writer thought that it was possible that some of the real eggs of a 

 disintegrated Ptero'phryne' s raft might have drifted against a flying 

 fish's conglomeration. The difi^erence in the times of oviposition of 

 the two fishes was, it is true, a serious objection to such an hj^pothesis, 

 but it was barely possible that the time of oviposition of a Ptero- 

 phryne might have been so delayed that a conjunction of the two 

 fishes might have occurred. Doctor Agassiz kindly responded to an 

 appeal for information by sending a couple of eggs taken from the 

 exterior of the " nest " and they were found to have the polar filaments 

 characteristic of the flying fish's eggs. 



Fig. 49. — Front view of the 

 head and rostral region of 

 Cwloplirys irevica-udata. 

 After Brauer. See p. 597. 



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