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rium breeding, the male should be re- 

 moved, leaving the young to forage alone. 

 The young of labyrinth fishes are very 

 minute at the outset, needing a plentiful 

 supply of Infusoria. Unless the breeding 

 tank is of good size, its normal infusorian 

 fauna will speedily be exhausted, so pro- 

 vision must be made to furnish this food 

 by adding water from another tank set 

 aside without fishes to permit this minute 

 life to develop. In addition to Infusoria, 

 artificial food as fine as flour, the inside 

 of mealworms and the yolk of hard-boiled 

 eggs, squezed sparingly into the water, 

 may be tried. When the larval stage has 

 been passed they may be given rotifers 

 and the tiniest Daphne, to be followed 

 later by large Daphne, enchytraeid worms 

 and scraped raw beef. 



Lucania ommata 



Lucania ommata, which was described 

 and illustrated by Mr. W. W. Welsh in 

 Aquatic Life for March, 1919, had up 

 to that time been reported only from 

 Florida. Two months later its range was 

 considerably extended when it was dis- 

 covered in Southern Georgia by Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith, United States Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries, who writes the editor 

 as follows : 



"When 1 was in southern Georgia, in 

 May, 1919, I visited a large artificial lake 

 near Milltown that had been formed by 

 the damming of a swamp about 75 years 

 ago. This swamp was one of the head 

 waters of the Suwanee River. The lake, 

 which is seven miles long, is generally 

 known as Hanks' Mill Pond. It contains 

 a rank growth of all kinds of vegetation 

 and teems with animal life. 1 found 

 Lucania ommata to be finite common, and 

 dipped a number of specimens while pass- 

 ing among the lilies in a canoe, the lish 

 being under the leaves of the lilies. The 

 extension of the range of Lucania was 



brought to the attention of the Biological 

 Society of Washington at a meeting held 



last spring." 



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