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tribution according to size and consequently according to age. 

 We then find that the earliest stages of all the leptocephali 



Fig. 547.— Number of Leptocephali of all species caught at each Station. 



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Fig. 54S. 

 Young Leptocephalid, only 1.7 cm. long. Station 64. 



Fig. 549. 

 Leptocephalus Syyiaphobranchi pinnati. Nat. size, about 5 cm. Station 62. 



captured were also taken in our southern section, south of the 

 Azores. As mentioned in Chapter IH. we took, in the Sargasso 

 Sea at Station 64, very small leptocephali between i and 2 cm. 



