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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 
In addition, the Station-book records from Station 167a, 10 fathoms: — Balanus, 
Gammarid, Isopod parasitic on Ophiurids, Sphseromidse, Alcyonium, Cancer , Gelasimus, 
Polyzoa ( Caberea ), compound Ascidian, and egg-capsules. 
In the foregoing list about 79 species are recorded, of which 24 are new to science, 
including representatives of 2 new genera ; 19 of the new species were not obtained 
elsewhere. 
With reference to the dredgings in Queen Charlotte Sound (Station 167a, 10 fathoms), 
Willemoes-Suhm writes : •“ The facies of the fauna was more tropical than that of the 
Port Jackson fauna, which is easily explained, seeing that the Polynesian fauna probably 
extends to the shores of New Zealand ; we are now in the periphery of another 
geographical centre. Voluta vesper tilio, Murex, and Typhis, as well as the fine Olivas, 
may be quoted in favour of this. The egg-capsules brought up belong probably to a large 
Buccinum, in which genus it is known that the young ones leave the egg-capsules after 
having lost their velum. This must be the case here, as one finds in each capsule three 
to six young shells having the prodigious length of 4 mm. The Crustacea were 
remarkable only for the presence of Gelasimus, the members of which generally live on 
the beach, or even in holes on the land, and come only to the sea to deposit their eggs.” 
Station 168 (Sounding 290), New 
Diagram 12). 
July 8, 1874 ; lat. 40° 28' S., long. 1 
Temperature of air at noon, 56° '8 ; m 
Temperature of water : — 
Surface, . 
• 
57-2 
25 fathoms, . 
• 
56-5 
50 „ 
56-5 
75 „ 
• 
56-5 
100 „ 
. 
55-7 
125 „ 
• 
54-8 
150 „ 
• 
539 
Density at 60° F. at surface, 1*02622 
Depth, 1100 fathoms; deposit, Blue 1 
of lime (see Murray and Rcnard, 
Zealand to Tongatabu (see Chart 27 and 
7° 43' E. 
for the day, 56 °*7. 
200 fathoms, 
o 
51-7 
300 „ ... 
48-2 
400 „ . . , 
45-4 
500 „ ... 
43-7 
600 „ ... 
42*1 
Bottom, 
37-2 
bottom, 1 02584. 
ud, containing 1 0*7 1 per cent, of carbonate 
Deep-Sea Deposits Chall. Exp.). 
At 8.40 a.m. observed land to the N.W. At 9.30 a.m. got up steam. At 10 a.m. 
shortened and furled sails, and sounded in 1100 fathoms. At 11 a.m. put over trawl. 
