88 EXPEDITION OF THE “ALBATROSS,” 1899-1900. 
Jan. 22. At anchor in Wotje. Surface haul by electric light; obtained 
mainly young fishes and larve of shore Crustacea, a good many Copepods, 
and a few Annelids. 
Jan. 24, At anchor in Arhno lagoon. Made a surface haul by electric 
light; obtained young Squid, fishes, Sagitta, Bolina, Macruran larve, and 
Copepods, 
Jan. 27. A second haul made at the Arhno anchorage by electric light 
obtained many Squid, young fishes, many Copepods, Nereis and Hetero- 
nereis-like Annelids, and larvee of Macrurans. 
Feb. 26. At our anchorage in Truk we obtained a number of phos- 
phorescent Annelids skimming over the surface, appearing as_ brilliant 
luminous spots, and extending, as the animal moved rapidly, into long, 
thin, tortuous lines from one to two feet in length. 
We did but little towing at Fiji, where 1 had done considerable work 
off Suva during a former visit in the winter of 1897-1898 while cruising 
through the group in the “ Yaralla.’ The pelagic material collected at 
that time, as well as the collections made by Dr. Woodworth at Samoa in 
1898, will be incorporated with the reports on similar material obtained by 
the present expedition. We were greatly surprised at the extreme poverty 
of the surface hauls made within the atolls wherever we anchored in the 
Ellice, Gilbert, or Marshall Islands, with the exception of a haul made by 
electric light in Taritari, when the nets came up filled with a swarm of 
Copepods, with many young Annelids, larvae of Brachiurans and Macru- 
rans, as well as young’ fishes. 
We had a similar experience when towing in the Carolines in the belt 
of the trades. In fact, the poverty of the surface fauna of the regions of 
the Pacific which we traversed (far from land) was very marked, with the 
exception of the limited tract while crossing the equatorial current, as con- 
trasted to the abundance of animal life found in the Panamic district, or in 
the track of the Gulf Stream and in the West Indian area. 
This renders it far more difficult to obtain data for the bathymetrical and 
geographical distribution of the pelagic fauna of the Pacific, and until far 
more extensive material has been brought together, the localization of the 
surface faunee of the Pacific realm must be left in a very indefinite state. 
