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prehensive revisional work on generic, specific, and subspecific levels. 

 The discussion related to the spawning periods of marine organisms 

 in different areas. It was stated to be all the year round with certain 

 species in tropical Djakarta, March the month for most prevalent spawn- 

 ing of fishes at Palmyra and March, April and May for the Marshall 

 Islands. Comments and discussion follow: 



Dr. Hardenberg: In tropical Djakarta, most species spawn the whole 

 year round. We found two types that breed the whole year round 

 and another type that spawns during the fall and spring only. Are 

 your Carangids more or less related to our species? 

 Dr. ScHULTz: Yes. 



Dr. Gosline: I found that the check list and list of species of fishes 

 of Guam could not be used in the case of the Hawaiian fishes. I 

 also found that the Hawaiian Islands are not coralline, that coral 

 reefs there are very small, with almost no atoll present, and that 

 those parts with cooler waters have different fishes. 

 Dr. ScHULTz: You just have to ignore the list of fishes of Guam. Only 

 50% of it is correct. In one case, 35 species were listed as new 

 but the listing were later found not valid, and this is probably true 

 of other species. In the Samarano, if the ichthyologist cannot de- 

 scribe these, he classifies them as new, as was found in the case of 

 parrot fishes. 

 Dr. Halstead: I made various studies of coral atolls at various times 

 of the year. In Palmyra I found that March is very definitely the 

 month when the fishes are most active as far as reproduction is 

 concerned. 

 Dr. Johnson: In the Marshall Islands, March, April and May show 

 very heavy spawning in plankton samples. It is probably so in 

 other places. 



After the discussion on Dr. Schultz's paper, Mr. Powell announced 

 a recess for refreshments. 



The after-recess session began at 11:30. Only one paper, "The 

 Zoogeographical Distribution of the Indo-Pacific Littoral Holothurio- 

 idea", by Mr. Jose S. Domantay of the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries, 

 was read. The paper covered the study of the littoral forms of Holo- 

 thurioidea found at depths not exceeding 50 fathoms. It proposed the 

 zoogeographical division of the Indo-Pacific Ocean based on the Holo- 

 thurian fauna, into the following ten provinces: (1) North Pacific 

 (2) South Pacific (3) East Pacific (4) West Pacific (5) Northwest 

 Pacific (6) Southwest Pacific (7) Northeast Pacific (8) Southeast Pa- 

 cific (9) Central Pacific and (10) Indian Ocean. These areas for the 



