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Samboangan, and were many of them apparently of the same race, but appeared to be a 
mongrel lot, and were very dirty looking. They brought mats and very pretty blue and 
red Lories (Eos indica ) alive for sale, secured to sticks by means of rings made of cocoa- 
nut shell as at Amboina. The men did not chant or use drums as they paddled ; they 
displayed Dutch colours. 
There was a moderate northerly wind all day with fine weather. Whilst dredging, 
the current ran to the southward at the rate of one mile per hour. 
The two hauls of the trawl at this Station (214) proved to be among the most pro- 
ductive of the whole cruise, twenty-two specimens of Teleostean fishes, and over one 
hundred and fifty specimens of invertebrates belonging almost exclusively to new genera 
and species of deep-sea animals, being procured. The deposit was a blue mud containing 
34 per cent, of carbonate of lime. A new species of deep-sea fish ( Malacosteus indicus, 
Giinth.) was obtained, which had between the maxilla and the eye on either side two 
spots, the posterior one round and of a beautiful light yellowish green colour, the anterior 
one larger, club-shaped (the head of the club pointing back), and of a dull red colour ; 
the specimen was 4g inches long, entirely black, with minute dots over the surface. 
A Lerncea was attached to its belly. 
Crinoids were especially abundant in these trawlings ; the following is a list of the 
species with the Myzostomida attached to them : — Pentacrinus alter nicirrus, Pentacrinus 
naresianus, Metacrinus costatus , Metacrinus moseleyi, Metacrinus murrayi, Metacrinus 
varians, Metacrinus ivyvillii, Antedon (six species), Promachocrinus naresi; Myzostoma 
calycotyle, Myzostoma wyville-thomsoni, Myzostoma asymmetricum, Myzostoma pentacrini, 
Myzostoma deformator, Myzostoma tenuispinum. Scalpellum album, Verruca nitida, 
Gnathophausia calcarata, Porocidaris elegans, five new species of Ophiurids, and a new 
Cephalopod ( Cirroteuthis meangensis ) belonging to a genus hitherto found only on the 
coast of Greenland, but discovered by the Challenger also in the Southern Ocean and the 
South Pacific, were also among the novelties obtained. 
The new deep-sea genus and species of Polyzoa (Bifaxaria Icevis, Busk), was repre- 
sented in this trawling. As will be seen from the following resume of his Report 1 on the 
Polyzoa by George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., the Bifaxariadse are almost exclusively a deep-sea 
family : — 
1 Report on tlie Polyzoa, by Geo. Busk, F.B.S., Zool. Chalk Exp., part xxx. 1884. 
