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hard to find. Young fish, too, were nearly absent during the 

 day, if we except a few specimens taken in a tow-net at 60 

 metres, but at night we got masses of them at 50 metres. 

 Among these young fish in the upper layers we found again 

 five little eel larvae of a size smaller than the grown larvae, 

 and there were besides a number of interesting young fish 

 with telescopic eyes, young flying-fish, and different species 

 of leptocephali. At 150 metres we secured two remarkable 

 leptocephali with long rostrums (see Fig. 82). 



In the intermediate layers, that is to say, from 300 to 500 



82. — Two New Leptocephali with Rostrums. 



metres, we found stomiatids, there being no fewer than fourteen 

 specimens of Ckauliodus sloaiiei in a little tow-net half a metre 

 in diameter. At 800 to 1300 metres there were plenty of 

 " rare " fishes; for instance, seven specimens of the large-mouthed 

 Gastrostonius bairdii, a specimen belonging to a new genus of 

 the Gastrostomidai (Fig. 83), a small fish which has not yet 

 been described (Fig. 84), one Cyema atrtini, three Aceratias 

 macrorJiinus indicus, masses of black cyclothones, and several 

 others of the more common forms. This station may well be 

 called an El Dorado for collecting zoologists, and instead of a 

 few days, months might profitably be spent to the south of 

 the Azores, where we found so many new and interesting forms. 

 At Station 56, situated about 100 nautical miles from 

 Fayal, the depth was 3239 metres. Here we lowered nine 

 pelagic appliances on the evening of loth June, and hauled 



