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But on August 29, 1918, wiiile the writer was aboard the "Albacore. '' 

 foiu" phyUosonies of large size, the largest ever taken oflt' California, were 

 secured with the vessel's small otter-trawl. These specimens average 

 about an inch in length, of body proper, ajid were obtained al)out 16 

 miles west of the Coronados Islands in 75 fathoms of water. One of 

 these specimens is shown in the accompanying figure (fig. 14). 



Including the above-mentioned specimens, the ''Albacore" had taken, 

 up to the time of the writer's return from (California, some fourteen 

 lots of large and intermediate sized phyllosomes, and another rare stage 



Large 



|ili_\ llusomc, an hereto fore umliscovercil larval 

 form of the spiny lobster. 



known as the puerulus. Some of these lots contained numerous indi- 

 viduals. The puerulus is the stage intermediate between the pyhllo- 

 some, the form in which the "lobster'" is hatched from the egg, and the 

 definitive form of the adult. These collections were well distributed 

 through the southern California waters ranging as far as 150 miles off 

 shore and to a maximum depth of 75 fathoms. This is a rather sur- 

 I)rising range for such a well known littoral form. 



So far as a preliminary e.xamination of the material taken by the 

 ■'Albacore" together with that obtained from the Seri|)ps Institution 

 goes, it appears that the early life history of the California spiny lobster 

 IS in a fair way of solution. A full report of the results of the summer's 

 work is in i)reparation. 



