CRUISES OF THE "MICHAEL SARS 



fishes called SQ2i-\\ovse.s, (Hippocanipiis, Fig, 71), and the beautiful 

 belt of Venus {Cestum veneris) ; 

 very many pelagic foraminifera 

 were present in the fine nets. 



Our deep tow- net caught a 

 large Alepocephalus, showing that 

 this fish may be pelagic. So far 

 as we know it had hitherto been 

 taken only in the trawl, and this 

 catch was all the more interesting, 

 because our trawl at the end of 

 the same wire also captured a 

 specimen ; previously one would 

 have taken it for granted that 

 this specimen must have been 

 caught at the bottom. 



At Station 49 B we towed seven 

 appliances in daylight, and no 

 black fish were captured in the 

 upper layers. We observed a 

 number of Portuguese men-of-war 

 {Physalia), around which were a 

 great many small fishes — prob- 

 ably horse-mackerel {Caranx), 

 which we caught in one of the young-fish trawls — and fry of 

 Scombresox. A beautiful large transparent amphipod {Cystosovia) 



Fig. 71. — Hippotaiiipiis. 



Fig. 72. 

 Opisthoproctus soleatus, Vaillant. Nat. size, 6.5 cm. 



was secured at 200 metres, and young Argyropelecus at 500 

 metres. In the deeper appliances we found large ostracods 



