CLASSIFIED RESUME OF ORGANISMS OBSERVED 3 II 



The other sharks could not be identified. The two largest 

 of these, fully eight feet long, were seen at 650 feet. Both 

 appeared dusky black, due doubtless to light conditions. 

 They kept close together, one a few feet in front of the 

 other, and swam slowly around the bathysphere. 



Hand-line fishing about Bermuda will occasionally bring 

 a shark up from 200 feet, but these few observations show 

 that they reach a considerably greater depth. 



Class PISCES 



Sub-Class TELEOSTEI 



Order isospondyli 

 Family stomiatidae 



Stomias was identified on two occasions, at 1250 and 

 1426 feet. Although I was in each case confident of the 

 genus, the identification was made without conscious re- 

 cording of significant characters. It was a case of facies 

 — of some configuration of general appearance. One of the 

 fish was about five inches long. 



In our trawling nets no Stomias was taken above 1800 

 feet, while specimens of over two inches in length were 

 captured only at 3000 and below. 



Family melanostomiatidae 



In this family I have included all the slender, black fishes 

 which I observed to have lateral rows of evenly spaced 



