272 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Sub-species A. 



Description. Metal barb, shank flat and notched to fasten 

 fishing-line. 



Locality. Eilice Group. 

 Type. Fig. 36, p. 270. 



>,ies B. 



Description. Fishing-line not carried to barb, barb lashed to 

 serrations on the tail of the shank, shank perforated for fishing- 

 line. 



Locality. Mortlock and Strong's Islands. 



Type.Finsch, Ann. K.K. Naturhist. Hofmus., viii., 1893, pi. 

 iii., fig. 1. 



Sub-species B. 



Description. Shank notched or toothed, not perforated, for 

 reception of fishing-line. 



Locality. Solomon Islands. 



Type. Edge-Partington, Ethnol. Album, ii., pi. ccix., fig. 5. 



Species C. 



Description. Kahawai hook, shank of pawa face and wood 

 backing, barb bone and double barbed at tip. , 



Locality. New Zealand. 

 Type. Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, i., 1878, p. 392, fig. 230. 



Species D. 



Description. Shank round, barb shaped like a scythe blade, no 

 beard. 



Locality. New Guinea. 



Type. Finsch, Ethnol. Atlas, pi. ix., fig. 3. 



PALU HOOKS. 



As characteristic an ethnological feature of its especial region 

 as the boomerang of Australia or the bola of South America, is 

 the wooden deep sea fish-hook from the Central Pacific. All 

 authors in dealing with this remarkable type of large wooden 

 hook from Micronesia and Polynesia have termed it a " shark " 

 hook. In the preceding pages, (p. 199) a description by Mr. 

 Louis Becke is given of .the "shark," for which this instrument 

 is intended. This excellent account, though not couched in 

 technical language, clearly indicates that the fish in question, 

 the " palu," is no shark, and has suggested to Mr. E. R. Waite 

 the idea of some Macruroid. 



