THE RESULTS of DEEP SEA INVESTIGATION in the 

 TASMAN SEA. 



II.— THE EXPEDITION of tiu: " WOY WOY." 



1. FisiiEs AND Crustaceans from Eihht Hundricd Fathoms. 



By Allan R. McCulloch, Zoologist. 



(Plates Ixiii.-lxv.). 



In contimiatiou of the investigations carried on by means of a 

 grant from the Royal Society of London detailed on page 271 of 

 these Records, Professor W. A. Haswell, M.A., made a second 

 expedition on 26tii to 27th October, 1906 in the " Woy Woy," a 

 boat that had already l)een engaged in this direction [ante p. 211) 

 He kindly invited me to accompany him and has furtlier honoured 

 me by placing the Fishes and Crustacea in my hands for descrip- 

 tion. In the first instance, the Crustacea were undertaken by 

 my lamented friend Air. F. E. Grant, but the untimely death of 

 that gentleman occurred before he had dealt with them. 



The specimens here discussed were obtained in a single cast of 

 a small trawl which Professor Haswell had built on the principle 

 of one designed and successfully used by the Prince of Monaco. 

 It was lowered in 800 fathoms at a point thirty-five miles due 

 east of Sydney,on the 152nd Meridian. 



Besides the subject of this paper, the trawl produced numerous 

 representatives of Echinodermata, consj)icuous among wliich were 

 a hundred living specimens of Porocidariti eli'(jaiif< which choked 

 the net, and with their long spines scraped most of the scales ofi' 

 the fishes that lay near them. Upon their arrival un deck fishes, 

 crustaceans, and echinoderms alike were quite paralysed and 

 rigid, while tlie stomachs and intestines protruded from the fishes' 

 mouths and the eyes from their sockets. Only when they were 

 placed in formalin did they exhibit any traces of life and then 

 merely by erecting the fins and gill co^■ers before they died. 



At the suggestion of Professor Haswell, I examined the stomachs 

 of the fishes for any invertebrates that might be undigested, but 

 in every case they were (juite empty, the fishes having probably 

 vomited the contents at an eai'ly stage of their ascent. 



