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DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN 



(Syngnatkus ; see Plates V. and VI., Chapter X.), and in the 

 open water between the patches were Portuguese men-of-war, 

 invariably attended by small fishes. This seems to be a 

 phenomenon corresponding to the association of the cod-fry 

 with jelly-fishes in the Norwegian Sea. 



At this station we made a very successful haul during the 



Fic. 77. 

 Lints maci/Iafus, Gthr. Xat. size, 9.5 cm. 



night of 5th-6th June with nine appliances. In addition to the 

 ordinary surface animals previously referred to, the tow-net at 

 the surface secured as many as sixty-one leptocephali belonging 



Fig. 78. — New Species of Leptocephalus. 



to what we have since found to be a new species (Fig. 78), 

 of which twenty-three specimens were captured at Station 52. 

 There was also an interesting high leaf-shaped leptocephalus 

 (Fig. 79), another specimen of which was taken at Station 56. 



In the upper appliances there were quantities of fish-eggs 

 and young fish, another Cystoso7na, and Ceratias couesii, which 

 had previously been taken by the " Albatross " off the east 



