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71° 33' 30" E., 865-880 fathoms ; bottom Glohigerina-oozQ ; 

 bottom temperature 40° Fahr. The haul here was a good 

 one ; perhaps the most interesting capture was that of a 

 small Terebratuloid Brachiopod with a branching peduncle 

 forming a tuft whicli is so firmly anchored among foraminifera 

 shells that masses of the latter still adhere to the detached 

 specimens. 



Station 126.— Laccadive Sea, lat. 8° 49' N., long. 73° 18' 

 45" E., 1370 fathoms ; bottom calcareous (coral) ooze ; 

 bottom temperature 36° Fahr. 



Station 127.— Laccadive Sea, lat. 8° 19' N., long. 73° 11' 

 E., 1200 fathoms ; bottom coral-ooze with many shells of 

 foraminifera. This ground, close by the island of Minnikoy, 

 was a very good one, especially for Asteroidea and Ophiu- 

 roidea, of which many specimens, of ten species, were taken. 



Station 128.— Gulf of Manaar, lat. 6° 58' N., long. 77° 26' 

 50'' E., 902 fathoms ; bottom green mud, with very nume- 

 rous chitinous annelid tubes, stout and over 6 inches long, 

 many with their living occupants. 



Station 129.— Bay of Bengal, lat. 16° 41' N., long. 82° 33' 

 45" E., 270 fathoms ; bottom a red-brown ooze from the 

 River God^vari. Besides the Macruri and Colocongev and 

 Nettastoina, which are characteristic of muddy stations at this 

 depth in the Bay of Bengal, and besides the equally charac- 

 teristic mollusks Nucula and Aniussiiim, not very much was 

 taken. 



Station 130.— Bay of Bengal, lat. 16° 20' 40" N., long. 

 82° 19' 15" E., 281-258 fathoms; bottom river-borne mud; 

 bottom temperature 51° Fahr. 



Station 131.— Bay of Bengal, lat. 16° 01' N., long. 81° 25' 

 E., 410 fathoms ; bottom the same river-mud; bottom tem- 

 perature 45°'5 Fahr. Besides the characteristic forms — 

 Macrurus investigatoris^ Nettastoma tceniola, &c. — many 

 specimens of a species of Phormosoma, and almost as many 

 of a fine large species of O'pMo'peza^ were taken, as well as nine 

 fine specimens of Flahellum laciniatum^ Phil. 



Station 132.— Bay of Bengal, lat. 12° 50' N., long. 81° 30' 

 E., 475 fathoms; bottom a red-brown ooze brought down by 

 the River Kistna ; bottom temperature 45°*5 Fahr. Most 

 worthy of mention are the fine Spatangoids {Lovenia or a 

 close ally), of which more than a score of fine specimens were 



