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ostomiatids were not taken in the trawling nets above 1800 

 feet. The largest specimen we have ever captured, an 

 Echiostomaj was only fifteen inches long, while most of 

 the others measured less than four inches. 



As this is one of the most interesting groups of deep-sea 

 fishes, I am appending an annotated list of the individuals 

 seen in the course of the various dives. 



750 feet. One, thirty-six-inch. It had the usual two rows of 



lights, but a long, slender, macrourid-like tail. 

 800 feet. One, five-inch. Eustomias-Wke. Outline very dis- 

 tinct. 



1000 feet. One. Row of lights seen twice in the distance. 



1 100 feet. One, twelve-inch. Body covered with minute lights. 



1 100 feet. One. Lights only seen in distance. 



1300 feet. One, twenty-four-inch. Two lateral rows of lights; 

 body covered with minute pin-pricks of light. 



1300 feet. One, one-inch. This was the smallest fish with double 

 rows of lateral lights ever seen. 



1390 feet. One. Mass of lights in distance. 



1400 feet. One. Slender fish like a male Idiacanihus, but it 

 seemed much longer than the latter. Cheek light large and 

 yellow. 



1500 feet. One. Echiostoma-\ike. Tiny lights scattered all over 

 body. 



1503 feet. Two. Brilliant red and yellow cheek lights. Prob- 

 ably Mdacosteus. 



1503 feet. One, four inches long and about three deep. Hun- 

 dreds of lights all over it. Echiostoma type of photophores. 

 Resembled Bathophilus hrevis in general character. 



1528 feet. One six-inch. Subocular light winking three separate 

 times. Echiostoma-Viike. 



1530 feet. Three, six- or seven-inch. Gray. Could see their en- 

 tire outlines, but not from their own lateral series of lights. 



1533 feet. One, three-inch. Two rows of lights, but no head- 



