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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  [80] 
  

  

  EXPLANATION 
  OF 
  PLATE 
  XII. 
  

   CH-ffiTODiPTERUS 
  faber. 
  (The 
  Moonfish.) 
  

  

  Fig. 
  64. 
  Young 
  fish 
  just 
  hatched, 
  with 
  the 
  oil-drop 
  lying 
  at 
  the 
  inferior 
  side 
  of 
  th<» 
  

   yelk, 
  partly 
  invested 
  by 
  cells 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  periblast. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  66. 
  Young 
  fish 
  twenty-eight 
  hours 
  after 
  hatching, 
  showing 
  the 
  yelk 
  nearly 
  ab- 
  

   sorbed. 
  

  

  