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increased so much that two of the latter were failures. There were strong under- 
currents affecting the net, and as, in addition, the ship was to a certain degree being 
drifted by the wind, manipulation on the wire was consequently difficult; the result 
was that the wire streamed out ata slight angle, and both sets of catches for opening 
and closing the net were sprung by the first messenger. The collections were very rich 
in all forms of life—Crustaceans being represented by large dark red prawns and 
Schizopods, large transparent Phyllosoma and Stomatopod larvee, as well as by 
Amphipods, large Phronima, and by a variety of Entomostraca, particularly Copepods ; 
Fig. 36. 
3 Shallow E wath numerous 
2 iar Banks and patchgs 
Farquhar Atoll (after the Admiralty chart, with corrections by H.M.S. Sealark). 
Mollusca by a few Gastropods, at least a dozen species of Pteropods, and Atlanta as 
representing the Heteropods, the genera without shells not being caught so far south ; 
the Coelenterata were, as usual, represented by Medusze, Ctenophores, and Siphonophora, 
with an occasional Actinian; to Tunicates should be credited deep-living Pyrosoma, 
Appendicularia in gelatinous houses, and Salps; there were also immense Sagitta, 
a few Chetopods, mostly Tomopteris, some Turbellaria, and a few Amphiovides. Fish, 
as is usual in such deep hauls, were represented mostly by a few eggs and larve, 
notable among the latter being the Leptocephalid larvee of eels with phosphorescent 
