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At anchor in Koluniadulu off Kandudu we obtained from the surface 

 a number of large-sized Appendiculariae in their houses, Mnemiopsis and 

 Aglaura, small Isopods, Sagittae, CoUozoum, and many Crustacean larvae. 



At anchor in Felidu Atoll off Buri Hura, we obtained from the surface 

 Sagittae, Copepods, a large species of Appendicularia, Crustacean larvae, 

 both Macrurans and Brachiurans, a young Turris-like Medusa and Thricho- 

 desmium. 



While crossing the Veimandu Channel (between Kolumadulu and Had- 

 dummati) in a dead calm, we passed a great number of flying fish : they 

 could, as a rule, rise but little ; the tail, or the pectorals and tail, both 

 touched the water as they skimmed along. In the former case they left a 

 line of a single series of rings, lapping more or less, formed by striking 

 of the tail at regular intervals. In the second case the contact of the tail 

 and fins formed three lines of rings which interfered in a great many ways, 

 and in both cases left the delicate rings thus formed to disappear gradu- 

 ally long after the flying fish had sunk below the surface. 



Track of Flying Fish (tail and fins). 



Tail Track. 



In the Veimandu Channel we also passed a great ninnber of Eutimas and 

 of Aurelias, the same species we have met with before. 



We made two pelagic hauls off the southern entrance to Haddummati 

 in one hundred fathoms, and obtained many Sagittae, a few large red 

 Copepods, Collozoum, Rhopalonema, and parts of Medusae, fragments of 

 Diphyes, Sergestes ; numerous larvae of Crustaceans, both Macrurans and 

 Brachiurans, Thrichodesmium, Tomopteris, and Alciopa. 



