DATA REGARDING COLLECTING. 

 TABLE A. A'l/iifs, Localities, and Approximate Sizes of Recent Chimccroids Continued. 



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(Since the above was in type the writer has seen in Japan two new species of Chimaera. These will shortly be 

 described by Mr. Tanaka in the Jour. Sci. Coll.) 



DATA REGARDING COLLECTING. 



It has long been known that Chimaeroids deposit large eggs, and that these 

 are inclosed in dart-shaped capsules, brown, heavy, somewhat after the fashion of 

 sharks, and resembling outwardly a frond of a giant Fucus. But further than this 

 nothing appears to have been ascertained as to their habits in breeding. At the 

 most, it was understood, from the complicated character of the capsule, that the 

 eggs were carried in the oviducts for a considerable time. 



This inference is clearly important to one who seeks to collect embryonic stages. 

 For, given unlimited time and a locality yielding numerous specimens of Chimaera, 

 one could evidently secure gravid females, and from these the requisite number of 

 mature egg-capsules. Thereafter one would have merely to incubate the eggs, 



