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Mr. Opie noted the colour soon after capture as light brown, with 

 white vertical bands ; the fins darker in colour than the body ; abdomen 

 brilliant blue. 



Lycodoims flagellicauda (Jensen). 



Station 10. 60° 3' N., 6° 24' W. 496 fathoms. Gravel, sand, mud, 

 shells, and stones. Bottom temperature, —0-1° C. One, 234 milli- 

 metres long. 



Mr. Opie noted the colour soon after capture as follows : ' Behind 

 the abdomen the body was a very pale French grey ; the abdomen 

 was a shiny brilliant blue.' 



A widely distributed species, ranging from near Spitzbergen and 

 north of Iceland to the Faeroe Channel, at depths of from 460 to 1,000 

 fathoms — always in cold water, the recorded temperatures all lying 

 between -0-03° C. and - 1-5° C. (see Jensen, 1904, and Collett, 1905). 



STATIONS OF THE ' SILVER BELLE; 1907. 



Station 1.— July 12: 60° 44' N., 2° 50 W. 153 fathoms. Trawl. Nearly one 



hour. 

 Station 2.— July 12 : 60° 47' N., 2° 55' W. 280 to 300 fathoms. Bottom 



temperature, 8° C. Trawl, two hours, on its back. 

 Station 2 (continued). — Same locality. 300 fathoms. Trawl, one hour. 

 Station 3.— July 13: 60° 46' N., 3° 36' W. Temperature, -0-4° C. 451 



fathoms. Trawl, not on bottom. 

 Station 3 (continued) .—507 fathoms. Shingle. Bottom temperature, 04° C. 



Trawl. 

 Station 4,— July 14 : ' 507 fathoms. Bottom temperature, 0'4° C. 1 This entry 



is probably wrong. The depth at station 4 appears from chart of cruise to 



have been 550 fathoms. Trawl did not reach bottom, so any bottom animals 



labelled station 4 must belong to station 3. 

 Station 5.— July 14 : 60° 15' N., 4° 25' W. 265 fathoms. Shingle. Bottom 



temperature, 7° C. Trawl. 

 Station 5 (continued).— July 15 : 60° 26' N., 4° 8' W. 352 fathoms. Rough 



ground. Bottom temperature, L8° C. Agassiz trawl. 

 Station 6.— July 16 : 59° 55' N., 4° 38° W. 97 fathoms. Rocks and stones. 



Surface temperature, 11-4° C. Bottom temperature, 9-5° C. Dredge. 

 Station 7.— July 17 : 60° 7' N., 4° 52' W. 216 fathoms. Gravel and large 



stones. Bottom temperature, 7° C. Dredge. 



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