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BULLETIN OK THE BI'KKAl' OF FISHERIES. 



Found upon the outer surface of the alewife {Clupea pseudokarengvs) and the smelt {Osmerua 

 rnordax), usually in the vicinity of the tins; often numerous upon a single 6sh. 



The eggs of this species are deposited in August (13th) and again toward the last of September 

 and the first of October (September 24r-October 5). Deposited eggs and larvae unknown, but the 



Anjultia alosae < tould. Female, a, l>orsal Rurface; /<. ventral surface; c, posterior maxilliped; <l, antennae. 



7 m w. 

 Argulus alow. Gould. Mali'. Posterior legs and 

 abdomen. 



eggs must be considerably larger than those of the other species and comparatively few in number, 

 judging from the ripe females examined. A specimen from near Key West, Fla., taken in April, was 

 full of apparently ripe eggs. Probably the species lays a little later than tins around Woods Hole. 



