Reproduction of Fishes in Table Bay. 
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The larvae were in all respects similar to those described in 'Marine 
Investigations in S. Africa,' vol. iii, p. 133. (Compare Species XXIY, noted 
further on.) 
SCOMBRESOCIDAE. 
Hemirhamphus calaharicus, Gthr. (PL I, fig. 20.) 
Mature eggs of the Needle Fish were procured at Knysna lagoon in 
December. They were large, being 4 mm. in diameter, and were provided 
with long filaments. They are not floating eggs, and when placed in water 
slowly sank to the bottom. The yolk was clear and homogeneous. 
The post-larval stages are found in fair abundance in the lagoon in the 
summer months, and the fish is apparently one of the few sea-fish which 
comes into the estuarine rivers of S. Africa for the purpose of spawning. I 
have described elsewhere ('Tr. Eoy. Soc. S. Africa,' vol. vi, p. 205) the manner 
in which this stage is protected from its enemies. 
Clupeidae. 
Sardina sagax, Jenyns. 
The eggs and larvae of this fish have already been described (' Mar. Inv.,' 
vol. ii, p. 196 ; and 'Mar. Biol. Rep.,' no. iii, p. 20). Similar eggs and larvae 
were found in Table Bay in great abundance on September 26, 1916, and 
three days later in the same locality. They were also found in tow-nettings 
in the Knysna lagoon in December, 1916. 
Engr mlis capensis, Grilchr. (PL I, figs. 21, 22.) 
The occurrence of the eggs of this fish in quantity and the fact that it is 
frequently found in the stomachs of such fish as the Kabeljaauw, Silver- 
Fish, etc., seem to indicate that it is in fair abundance in the Cape seas. 
The fish differs little, as I have pointed out ('Mar. Biol. Eep.,' no. i), from 
the European Anchovy, but is not made use of in any way in South Africa. 
The eggs of this Anchovy were found in abundance during the latter 
half of January in Table Bay. They were also found in the Knysna lagoon 
in December, 1916. 
They were first found in the course of the work of the " Pieter Faure '' 
off Mossel Bay in the month of January. 
The egg and larva closely resemble those of the European Anchovy and 
are readily recognised, the egg being oval in outline, three Table Bay 
specimens measuring 1'55 to 1*02 mm. in length and "64 to '59 mm. in 
breadth. The larva is short, measuring 1*88 mm. in length, and has a 
characteristic elongate vesiculate yolk (fig. 22). 
