CRUISES OF THE -MICHAEL SARS " loi 



by us in the Sargasso Sea near Station 50, and we succeeded 

 in capturing eleven specimens belonging to the species 

 Pimcleptcj^iLS bos chii 2ind Lirus pei'-ciformis. 



At Station 62 we tried nine pelagic appliances at different 



depths on the night of 20th June. Our catches were very 



satisfactory at all depths, and much 



^ resembled those taken between the 



I^Sl 



Canary Islands and the Azores. 

 Fir.. 88.-THE SMALLEST LARVA ^^ the Upper kycrs there were 



OF THE Common Eel caught some extremely interestmg leptoceph- 

 "^.'.'™:'.o,'rKa..'tr" aH, including no fewer than eleven 



specimens of the common eel larvae Eel 

 (Fig. 88), 5 to 5.7 centimetres long, showing that the little eel 

 larvae are to be met with west as well as south of the Azores. 

 We also found two individuals, only 4.7 and 5.1 centimetres 

 long, of leptocephali belonging to the deep-sea fish Synapho- 

 branchus pinnattis. This had previously only been met with 

 in sizes approximating to the full-grown larva (10-13 cm.), of 

 which we found several at the different stations ; but it was 

 most interesting to come across 

 such small (early) development 

 stages of the species. 



At depths from 300 metres 

 to 50 metres there were again 

 the same colourless Cy clot hone 

 signata as well as silvery 

 Argyropelecus, Stomias, and 

 Chaiiliodus. We got, too, a 

 new species of Ce^'alias. In 



the deepest hauls, below 500 \ ' y' — j 



metres, the forms were the same "-- >^' A 



as in previous hauls. There Vl' 



was the little black fish, Cyclo- \ 



tJione microdon, once more, red ^^^ 89.-LARGE closing net. 

 prawns (particularly Acanthe- 



phyra), red sagittae, dark - brown medusa i^Atolla), large 

 ostracods {Gigantocypi'is), and the same kinds of " rare " fish: 

 GastrostoTjms bairdii, Cyema atrum, Gonostoma grande, Dactylo- 

 stoniias, and several others. 



These numerous horizontal hauls accorded so closely with 

 each other that we now began to feel that there must be a well- 

 defined conformity in the vertical distribution of the different 

 forms. Still, to avoid any uncertainty, we considered it desirable 



