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with excessively long antennz, which were not known, and which 
ought to be placed in the genus Aristeus. Nephropses appear at 
this level ; these are blind Crustaceans, of a coral-colour ; their geo- 
graphical distribution seems to be very extended, for they have been 
found on the other side of the Atlantic, in the Caribbean Sea, and a 
very nearly allied species has been taken at a great depth in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Andaman Islands. The blind Polycheles, which 
replace in existing nature the Jurassic Hryons, hide themselves in 
the mud, and only allow their long hooked claws, destined to seize 
their prey in passing, to protrude. 
Some other crabs oceur ; some Maiide (Scyramathia, Lispognathus); 
Homolides of a new species; and some species of Lithodes, a genus 
which was thought to be peculiar to the northern and southern 
seas, Numerous species of the group of the Galatheidw were ob- 
served, of which several have the eyes transformed into spines. The 
sponges are extremely common ; the greater number havea siliceous 
skeleton. We have taken a profusion of Rosselle and Holtenice of 
several species, of which the fibres, like snow-white crystal, are 
buried in the mud, while the sponge alone emerges; and some 
Aphrocalliste, of which the solid framework assumes the most ele- 
gant forms. The Calverie become more numerous; Holothurians 
(Letmogone and others) crawl on the ground in the midst of Aste- 
rians, Ophiurans, and Brisinge. Our nets often came up charged 
with such riches that the day did not suffice to classify them. 
Passing Cape Ghir and Cape Nun, at about 120 miles from the coast, 
the ‘ Talisman,’ during several days, explored a very regular bank, of 
which the depth is about 2000-2300 metres. It was upon this 
same bank that, on August 2, 188%, the ‘ Travailleur’ captured the 
singular fish described by M. Vaillant under the name of Eury- 
pharynx pelecanoides, and of which two examples have been taken 
this year. Our dredgings were once more of great value. Superb 
sponges, allied to those which have been described under the name 
of Huplectella suberea, occurred, mixed with great violet Holothu- 
rians of the genus Benthodytes and with other species of the same 
kind, remarkable for their dorsal appendages. A Calveria distinct 
from those of lesser depths, Brisinge, corals of rare beauty (/label- 
lum, Stephanotrochus), a Democrinus, and a Bathycrinus not yet 
described, very numerous Crustaceans, nearly all new to us and 
belonging to the group of Galatheidee (Galathodes, Galcantha, Elas- 
monvtus), completed the invertebrate fauna. The fishes were very 
varied, and their study will furnish new facts of the greatest in- 
terest. Amongst the most remarkable I will mention Melanocetus 
Johnsoni, some Bathytroclites, a Stomias with phosphorescent plates, 
and several Malacostet. 
Between the Senegal and the Cape-Verd Islands our nets at- 
tained a depth of 3200 and 3€55 metres, and brought up the greater 
part of the preceding species as well as many others (crustaceans, 
mollusks, zoophytes, sponges) which had not been met with else- 
where. 
These last dredgings terminated the first part of our expedition, 
