YOUNG "stalk-eye" {Stylopktkal- 

 mus) [after Chun). 



This extraordinary^ larval fish is very rare, 

 and is to be obtained only from the abysses 

 of the ocean. The adult is unknown. 



YOUNG RIBBON-FISH (Trachypterus). 

 These excessively long fin-rays serve as 

 "feelers" in the ocean abysses, where the 

 larval stage of the Ribbon-fish is passed. 

 The adult, which has no such *' tentacles," 

 is about lo feet long, and ribbon -shaped, 

 hence the popular name, [224a 



