308 CLASSIFIED RESUME OF ORGANISMS OBSERVED 



1 200 feet. One. Three-inch. 



1200 feet. Several. Two-inch. Around Hght. 



1300 feet. One. Small. Seemed to have no lights. In beam; went 



down to bait. 

 1300 feet. Three. Six-inch. One light on each. 

 1900 feet. One. Small. 

 2000 feet. School. All had net-works of light all over their 



bodies. 

 2000 feet. Small group of three or four. 

 2160 feet. One. Small. Pink. 

 2300 feet. One. Small. Pale red and green lights. 

 2500 feet. One. Twenty-four-inch. Like dead ones picked up 



on surface. Brick brown in color, and one tentacle was 



knotted up as though it had something in it. 

 2880 feet. One eight-inch. One pale blue light. Could see 



whole body when it passed by other lights. 



Squids are relatively rare in the trawling nets, one small 

 one appearing in about every three or four nets drawn. 



'Phylum CHORDATA 



Subphylum tunicata 



Class LARVACEA 



Order astigmatea 



Salpae were recognized down to 1400 feet, and were 

 fairly common. The single, barrel-shaped varieties, as has 

 been said, were difficult to distinguish from small siphono- 

 phores. Large examples, however, were clearly seen a num- 

 ber of times. These were four or five inches in length and 

 perfectly transparent except for the translucent vertical 

 bands, and the small brown gut in one end. Once a long 



