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transparent amphipod (Cystosoma), Veiella, Cesttmt veneris. Animal life 

 lanthina, Ptei'otrachea, Physalia, and Glazicus atlanticus, were ^g^^Js*^^"^ 

 also characteristic. 



At depths of 300 metres down to 500 metres silvery fishes 

 were much in evidence. The commonest of them were the flat- 



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Fig. 64.— Two Silvery Fishes from a depth of about 300 Metres. 



a. Chauliodus sloanei, Bl. and Schn. Nat. size, 6 cm. 



b. Argyropelecus hemigymnus, Cocco. Nat. size, 3.5 cm. 



shaped Argyropelectis (see Fig. 64, U) Stoinias, Chauliodus (Fig. 

 64, a), and Seri'ivovier. The fish which we met with most 

 frequently, however, was the grey-coloured Cyclothone signata, 

 hundreds of which were sometimes taken in a single haul (see 

 Plate I., Chapter X.). Several species of red prawns were 

 also found here. 



Our hauls from 1000 metres down to 2000 metres were 



