158 THE CORAL REEFS OF THE MALDIVES. 



At our anchorage off Funadu (South Haddummati), just before sunset 

 we found the water swarming with Sapphirinae ; when gathered in a jar 

 they produced the most beautiful effects from the variety and intensity of 

 the metallic colors reflected by them while swimming about. A large 

 species of Eutima and a species of Berenice were also abundant at this 

 locality. We found the Sapphirina and Eutima again swarming round 

 the ship early in the morning. 



At our anchorage off Funadu (south part of Haddummati), we made a 

 most successful surface haul. It was specially marked for the large number 

 of Medusae it contained ; there were Stomobrachium, Ephyrae, Hybocodon, 

 a Medusa allied to Gonionemus, Geryonia, Glossocodon, many Styliolas, 

 a number of Halobates, young of Ianthina, fragments of Ctenophores, 

 Diphyes, Veligers, Sea-urchin larvae, Sagittae and Copepods in great 

 number. 



In a haul made later in the evening we collected only a few Copepods, 

 Sagittae, Crustacean larvae, and Appendiculariae. 



In a surface haul off the south pass of Haddummati, we obtained a great 

 number of Crustacean embryos, both Macrurans and Brachiurans, Sagittae, 

 Salpae, Sapphirinae. Two species of Diphyes, Styliola, Spinalis, Appendi- 

 cularia, and a few Copepods. Salpae were very abundant in the lagoon 

 as well as a species of Aurelia, which we found everywhere in the Mal- 

 dives and in the Indian Ocean, all the way from Ceylon to Aden. In 

 another surface haul, at our anchorage, in the southern part of Haddum- 

 mati we obtained Zygodactyla, numerous Halobates, very many Aureliae, 

 and small Copepods shining like Sapphirina. 



We made a haul off Dandu (Suvadiva) and collected fine large trans- 

 parent Macrurans, Sergestes, larvae of Crustaceans, among them a huge 

 Megalops, masses of Copepods, large transparent Syllis-like Annelids, To- 

 mopteris, with colossal lateral appendages ; Sagittae, Salpae, Beroe, Ocyroe, 

 Cydippe, Mertensia, Bolina, Geryonia in all stages, two species of Diphyes, 

 Tima, Dipurena, Cunina, Aglaura, Zygodactyla, Stomobrachium, Oceania, 

 Circe, Ephyra, and Rhopalonema. 



We made a pelagic haul off the Gan Channel (Suvadiva), in twenty-five 

 fathoms, with poor results. 



