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TABLE 6 
Results of Sampling for Ripe Female Acanthmus triostegus sandvicensis 
During the Spawning Season 
DATE 
days to neare 
Before 
ST FULL MOON 
After 
NO. OF FISH 
EXAMINED 
NO. OF 
RIPE FEMALES 
Jun. 19, 1953 
8 
40 
1 
21 
6 
9 
1 
Jul. 14 
12 
114 
1 
17 
9 
45 
0 
21 
5 
14 
1 
Dec. 1 
11 
141 
1 
8 
12 
126 
1 
22 
2 
139 
0 
- 29 
9 
96 
0 
Jan. 8, 1954 
11 
149 
1 
12 
7 
21 
1 
24 
5 
26 
0 
Feb. 5 
12 
30 
0 
9 
8 
30 
0 
12 
5 
41 
1 
Mar. 2 
13 
31 
0 
12 
7 
144 
6 
30 
11 
44 
0 
Apr. 2 
13 
87 
0 
6 
12 
198 
0 
9 
9 
121 
0 
13 
5 
111 
0 
16 
2 
193 
7 
20 
2 
132 
6 
23 
5 
76 
0 
27 
9 
151 
0 
May 1 
13 
88 
0 
6 
11 
83 
1 
11 
6 
226 
3 
14 
3 
149 
2 
18 
1 
18 
0 
21 
4 
204 
1 
25 
8 
159 
0 
28 
11 
103 
2 
Jun. 11 
5 
42 
2 
18 
2 
97 
0 
22 
6 
29 
0 
25 
9 
49 
0 
Jul. 2 
14 
27 
0 
9 
7 
28 
0 
16 
0 
0 
252 
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about half the size of the ripe egg mode, coupled 
with the knowledge that this mode is not re- 
tained in the ovary through the summer months. 
This mode of intermediate-size eggs appears to 
be a persistent unit within the ovary of all 
mature female manini during and 1-2 months 
before the spawning season, suggesting that it 
constitutes a static mass of eggs from which 
modes of ripe eggs may develop periodically. 
It is not known whether this mass is built up 
constantly or at short intervals from the huge 
reserve of minute primordial eggs which is pres- 
ent in the ovary of every adult female regardless 
of the time of year (and is here not considered 
as a mode of egg size) . 
The procedure for the determination of egg 
diameters was as follows: Tiny sections were 
snipped from various parts of an ovary (which 
was previously preserved in 8 per cent formal- 
dehyde solution) and placed in water in a Syra- 
