CRUISES OF THE "MICHAEL SARS " 8i 



coast of Africa and the island of Fuerte Ventura. Here we 



Fig. 59. 



Ceratias, n.sp. Nat. size, 13 cm. Station 42. 



sounded at Station 41 and got 1365 metres. We shot our trawl 

 with 3400 metres of wire, and towed it for three and a half 



hours. Hauling in took an hour 

 and fifty minutes. Our catch con- 

 sisted of about fifty deep-sea fishes 

 (see Fig. 57), several baskets of 

 holothurians, and a number of in- 

 teresting invertebrates, including 

 some beautiful, large, red-coloured 

 prawns, no less than 30 centimetres 

 long. This catch was extremely 

 interesting, as it yielded the same 

 species of fish that we got in 

 our hauls to the west of Ireland 

 (Mo7^a^ Trachyrhyncus, Alepoce- 

 phalus, Synaphobranchus). 



The trade-winds had mean- 

 while freshened considerably, so 

 we steamed under the lee ot 

 Fuerte Ventura, and at Station 

 42 used our pelagic appliances at 

 „ ^^_. various depths. The captures Eel larv? 



» Ifc J were particularly interesting, in- 



«eiS ir eluding as they did nineteen larvae 



^" p0^ of eels (leptocephali). One indi- 



vidual among these (Fig. 58) be- 

 longed to the ordinary conger-eel 

 iyLeptocepIialus Congi'i viclgaris), but the other eighteen were all 

 of another species closely resembling the conger larva, but 



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Fig. 60. — Spirilla. (From Chun.) 



