PRELIMINARY REPORT. 85 
Copepods, a few Euphausiz, Balanus larvee, small Salpa, Cydippe, Gery- 
onia, Rhopalonema, a few Collozoum, Liriope hyalinea of Fiji, Halobates, 
small black phosphorescent fishes, large Pteropod, Cuvieria. 
Station 17. Lat. 0° 50’ N., long. 187° 54° W. The surface haul at this 
station contained nothing of importance. 
Station 18. Lat. 6° 25’ S., long. 188° 59’ W. Surface haul very poor. 
Collozoum, a few Sagittee and Copepods, two small fishes, 
Station 25. In the channel between Nukuhiva and Washington Islands. 
Very poor. A few Sagitte, a blue Copepod, and Collozoum. 
Station 26. Lat. 8° 52’ S., long. 139° 52’ W. Very poor haul. Collo- 
zoum, Sagittee, small black Copepods and others, Mysis, Halobates, young 
Physalia, and Geryonia, — same species as before,— small fish-eggs, many 
small solitary Salps, or isolated zooids, Appendicularia with iridescent tail, 
Ianthina, Halobates. 
Sept. 15. At anchor in Anna Maria Bay, Marquesas. Collected with 
the electric light a number of large Appendicularia houses, new Diphyes. 
Station 30. Lat. 10° 29’ S., long. 141° 52’ W. Many Ianthine and Firo- 
loides, Sagittze, Collozoum, Diphyes, a few Copepods, fish-eggs, small Diodon, 
Sergestes larvee, Orbulina in very fine condition, large Appendiculariz, no 
Euphausiz, Agalma bells, Salpae. 
Station 31. Lat. 12° 20’ S., long. 144° 15° W. Ordinary haul. Sagitte, 
two small Copepods, many Lucifer, medium-sized Appendiculariz, Firo- 
loides, many Ianthine with Lepas parasites, Porpita and Physalia quite 
common; Diphyes bells, Carmaris, perhaps the same species as that de- 
scribed by Haeckel, as found off Peru. 
Station’ 31. 7 P.M., same day. A good surface-haul containing Salpx, 
Doliolum, three species of Copepods, black, pink, and red, Lucifer, 
Phronima, a large red species, a.small red crab, adult of a red Zoea col- 
lected yesterday ; large Sergestes, fine transparent specimens; Atlanta, 
Rhopalonema, Lyriope hyalina, Diphyopsis. 
Station 32. Lat. 18° 37.5’ S., long. 145° 42’ W. Sagitte, four species of 
Copepods, Lucifer, Hyperins, Firoloides, Salpa, a large species of Appen- 
dicularia, two species of young fishes, Agalma, a new genus of Diphyes 
allied to a genus collected at the Marquesas. 
