ZOOLOGICAL 
THE SPIDER-CRAB AT HOME. 
inate the various exhibits and labels, making 
the lighting as effective as in the daytime. A 
cluster of lights has also been placed at the 
entrance and an electric sign indicates that the 
building is open to the public. 
Breeding of the Octopus: Mr. L. L. Mow- 
bray, curator in charge of the Bermuda Aquar- 
ium, informs us that the Octopi in the Bermuda 
Aquarium have bred during the past summer. 
The female after laying the eggs, which are 
in clusters somewhat similar to those of the com- 
mon squid, remained above them to protect them 
until they hatched. Even the male Octopus 
was attacked so savagely that it was necessary 
to remove him from the tank. Mr. Mowbray 
has promised us a full account of the breeding 
habits for a later number of the BULLETIN. 
Local Tuna Fishing: It may be of interest 
to our readers to learn that the great or leaping 
tuna, Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus) 
taken in considerable numbers in this vicinity. 
An account in Forest and Stream, October 15, 
1910, states that they are taken frequently by 
the Swedish fishermen at Barnegat, N. J., on 
hand lines, while fishing for bonita, ete. Speci- 
mens weighing all the way from twenty to one 
hundred and fifty pounds have been taken in 
this way. 
is being 
In the same number of Forest and Stream is 
published a photograph of two tunas, one weigh 
ing twenty-five and the other fifty-two pounds, 
taken with rod and reel on September 30, by 
Mr. T. E. Townsend of the Asbury Park Fish- 
ing Club. More recently Mr. Townsend has 
taken another specimen weighing twenty-six and 
one-half pounds, which was sent to the Aquar- 
ium to make certain of the identification. 
SOCIETY 
BULLETIN. 711 
The tuna occurs both in the Atlantic and 
Pacific, but the only place where it is regularly 
fished for by anglers is at Santa Catalina, Cali- 
fornia, where the Club 
been organized. 
well-known Tuna has 
If the tuna is proved to occur with any regu- 
larity on the New Jersey coast it will certainly 
attract a great many sportsmen in search of this 
king of angler’s fishes. li (C5 O)- 
YOUNG THREAD-FISH. 
N the Butietrn for March, 1910, there was 
published a brief reference to the thread-fish. 
Alectis ciliaris (Bloch), together with a pho- 
tograph of an adult specimen. The species de- 
rives both its common and scientific names from 
the long, lash-like filaments which are present 
in the young, but which gradually disappear 
with age. These structures are merely soft 
filamentous appendages which grow from the 
tips of the first five or six rays of the dorsal and 
anal fins. They may be connected for a short 
distance by membrane or they may be entirely 
free from each other. 
In the Burtitetin note referred to, it was 
stated that the streamers are sometimes twice as 
A RE-ARRANGED LOBSTER. 
