JAPANESE ZOOLOGICAL STATION AT MISAKI. 203 



A Living Hag-fish, Showing a Mass of Freshly Secreted Slime. 



marine collecting. There is a rich shallow water fauna which yields, 

 among other delectable things, Amphioxus, sea-pens, a giant Balano- 

 glossus, Oncliidium and a Phoronis four inches in length. In the 

 immediate neighborhood of the station can be obtained at low tide 

 Antedon, very abundant, Lingula, the spawning of which Mr. Yatsu 

 has observed in the laboratory, and Cceloplana, the latter discovered 

 by Mr. Abbott. Pelagic forms can also be collected favorably. Pyro- 

 soma, Appendicularia and Sal pa are abundant. Various ctenophores, 

 including Cestus, are not uncommon, and near the station, sometimes 

 sweeping close to the shore, is the Black Current, bringing many south- 

 ern forms. I may mention that the dead shells of Nautilus have been 



- -»i-S»l^S 



A Freshly Caught Port Jackson Shark. 



