632 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL XXXIII: 
dant that the catch of the Chinese fishermen for a single night, 
when spread out on the ground to dry, will cover five or six 
acres! The Chinese boats go out by night with nets and pitch- 
pine torches, which are hung over the boat’s side to lure the 
squid. The squids are dried and shipped to China to be used 
as food. It is said also that the dried squids are used in China 
as fertilizer. The duty on fertilizer in China is very low, the 
duty on salt very high. By mixing a little dried squid with a 
great deal of salt, and calling it fertilizer, a considerable amount 
” 
COAST NEAR THE HOPKINS LABORATORY—VIEW FROM PorntT LoBos. 
of salt finds its way into the Celestial Kingdom at a very low 
dutyrate. The giant squid, Ommatastrephes californica, and a 
species of Octopus (punctatus, probably) occur, the latter quite 
common, and the former not infrequent during the summer, 
when the rock-cod are young and readily caught. 
Crustacea are well represented in certain groups. Amphi- 
pods literally swarm everywhere. Isopods, particulariy two 
species of Idothea, are very common. The Brachyura are 
represented by twenty to twenty-five species, while the Mac- 
rura are represented by three or four very numerous hermit 
crabs and an Alpheus. Copepods are numerous, wonderfully 
