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divided above and below. The body was deep and the abdomen 

 swollen, but no spawn exuded on pressure. On opening the ab- 

 domen I found that the specimen was female, with enlarged roes, 

 but the eggs were not ripe ; the largest were still opaque, with 

 several oil-globules, probably pelagic with a single oil-globule when 

 ripe. The contents of the intestine consisted of dark grey sandy 

 matter, in which, under the microscope, were found triradiate 

 sponge-spicules, one small crustacean, and numbers of curious 

 elongated structures of colourless granular appearance and variable 

 breadth. They may have been vegetable growths living in the 

 intestine or perhaps in the sand that the fish swallows ; they 

 were certainly not Gregarines. 



The habitat of the original single specimen in the British 

 Museum Collection was not known, but two specimens were sub- 

 sequently received from St. Helena. It seems to be confined to 

 the shores of this island, not having been recorded from any other 

 locality. 



CARANX SANCTjE HELENA. 



Caranx sanctce-heleuce Cuv. &, Val. ix. p. 37. 



Caranx jacobceus Cuv. & "Val. ix. p. 42. 



Caranx muroadsi Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Pisces, 

 p. 108, pi. 58. fig. 1 ; Giinther, B. M. Cat. Fishes, ii. p. 425; 

 Melliss. 



Kingston and Stonebrass, Melliss. 



The Stonebrass and Kingston are identical, the latter being the 

 achilt. Average specimens which I brought home measured 

 lOf and 15| inches respectively. A single posterior ray of the 

 doi'sal and ventral fins is detached, forming a rather long finlet ; 

 the posterior scales of the lateral line are keeled. 



The young of this species, known as Stonebrass, are very 

 abundant at St. Helena. Whenever I was out fishing for 

 mackerel off Egg Island, swarms of these fishes could be seen around 

 the boat feeding greedily on the pounded mackerel or "mince" 

 thrown over to attract the mackerel. They were never caught 

 on the mackerel-hooks, probably because these were too large for 

 their mouths, but when mackerel were scarce the men fished for 

 Stonebrass by two different methods : one method was with a 

 bamboo-rod and short line furnished with a small hook and baited 

 with mackerel ; the other was to collect a number of the fishes in 

 a dense shoal by throwing over a handful of mince, and then to 

 draw rapidly through them a bunch of sharp hooks on the end of 

 a short line weighted with a lead : in this way the Stonebrass 

 were foul-hooked. Stonebrass are of little value in the market, 

 and are caught usually when mackerel are scarce, as bait for 

 albacore-fishing. 



Kingstons are occasionally caught on the mackerel-lines ; but 

 I saw' very few caught in this way, namely three on March 6th 

 and one on March 10th ; the latter was a ripe male exuding 



