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CHAPTER II. 



VOYAGE TO EIO — TO WING-NET — lANTHINA POKPITA — PARASITE 



OR FLYING-FISH HALOBATES SWALLOWS SHARKS AND PILOT- 

 FISH JASETJR BANK FORAMINIFERA^ — AURIVAL AT RIO 



PASSAO PUBLICO SENSITIVE PLANT BOTANIC GARDENS RIO 



COMPRIDO VALLEY NICTHEROY REMARKABLE INSECT-NEST 



THORNY PALMS — CURIOUS BUTTERFLY MARINE ANIMALS GALE 



IDOTEA ANNULATA PAMPERO ENTER THE RIVER PLATE 



COBWEBS MONTE VIDEO AGAVE TALL THISTLES VERBENAS 



TERO-TERO PETUNIA ANTS POVERTY OF MARINE ZOOLOGY 



THE MOUNT. 



I AVAILED myself of the opportunity presented while we were 

 under sail, and the revolutions of that useful, but disagree- 

 able piece of apparatus, the screw, temporarily suspended, to 

 bring the towing-net again into operation, and met with a 

 certain amount of success. Thus, on the 14th, a curious little 

 fish, of a blackish colour, with a large mouth armed with 

 long teeth (Astronesthes niger), one of the Erichthoid Crus- 

 tacea, Alima hyalina,^ and a lovely little deep blue Velella, 

 were taken. In the course of the same day a large school of 

 porpoises accompanied the ship for some time, and then 

 signalised their departure by a series of flying leaps through 

 the air. ^NText day we observed large numbers of lantliince, 

 with their curious floats, on the structure and formation of 



* In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for June 1868, Mr. 

 Spence Bate states that he has reason to believe that Alima is but the second 

 stage in the development of Squilla and allied forms, and I have since been 

 informed by Dr. Anton Dohrn that there can be no doubt that such is the case. 



