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Copepods, a few Euphausi*, Balanus larvaj, small Salpa?, Cydippe, Gery- 

 oiiia, Rhopaloneina, a few Collozoiiin, Liriope hyalinea of Fiji, Halobates, 

 small black phosphorescent fishes, largo Pteropod, Cuvieria. 



Station 17. Lat. 0" 50' N., long. 137' 54' W. The surface haul at this 

 station contained nothing of importance. 



Station 18. Lat. 6^ 25' S., long. 138" 59' W. Surface haul very poor. 

 CoUozouni, a few Sagittas and Copepods, two small fishes. 



Station 25. In the channel between Nukuhiva and Washington Islands. 

 Very poor. A few Sagittae, a blue Coi)epod, and Collozoum. 



Station 26. Lat. 8' 52' S., long. 139' 52' W. Very poor haul. Collo- 

 zoum, Sagittte, small black Copepods and others, Mysis, Halobates, young 

 Physalia, and Geryonia, — same species as before, — small fish-eggs, many 

 small solitary Salpa3, or isolated zooids, Ap[)endicularia with iridescent tail, 

 lanthina, Halobates. 



Sept. 15. At anchor in Anna Maria Bay, Marquesas. Collected with 

 the electric light a number of large Appendicularia houses, new Dijihyes. 



Station 30. Lat. 10° 29' S., long. 141 52' W. Many lanthina^ and Firo- 

 loides, Sagittal, Collozoum, Diphyes, a few Copepods, fish-eggs, small Diodon, 

 Sergestes larva?, Orbulina in very fine condition, large Appendicularia^, no 

 Euphausise, Agalma bells, Salpae. 



Station 31. Lat. 12' 20' S., long. 144° 15' W. Ordinary haul. Sagittas, 

 two small Copepods, many Lucifer, medium-sized Appendicularia?, Firo- 

 loides, many lanthinte with Lepas pnrasites, Porpita and Physalia quite 

 common; Diphyes bells, Carmaris, perhaps the same species as that de- 

 scribed by Ilaeckel, as found off Peru. 



Station 31. 7 P. M., same day. A good surface-haul containing Salpoe, 

 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 hj'alina, Diphyopsis. 



Station 32. Lat. 13° 37.5' S., long. 145' 42' W. Sagitta), four species of 

 Copepods, Lucifer, Hyperinae, 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. 



