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preserved in 5 per cent formalin. The day was such as to promise excellent surface 
collecting; the air was calm and the water smooth. Large numbers of chain salpas 
were seen swimming near the surface and below as far as the sight could penetrate. 
The chains varied in length from an inch to several feet, and solitary individuals, or 
those arranged in rings, occasionally drifted by. The longer chains moved through 
the water much more rapidly than the smaller ones, and in addition to the branchial 
action they exhibited distinct serpentine movements. The salpas were not present 
during the midday hours, and my observations would indicate that they were not 
present at the surface on cloudy or windy days. 
In the forenoon 4 dredgings were made, and at eacli station the trawl was on the 
bottom from 15 to 30 minutes. The afternoon and evening were spent in the course 
homeward, the latter part of the journey being through water of remarkable phos- 
phorescence. At about midnight the vessel came to anchor off Nobsque light. 
On this excursion fully 100 species of animals were collected, and many of the 
hauls brought up a surprising variety of bottom forms. A much larger number would 
doubtless have been recorded if the means for picking over and sorting the material 
had been adequate and if there had been more time for working up the material 
preserved. Inasmuch as the four stations were quite near one another, it has not 
been thought necessary to arrange the specimens in separate groups. 
Table of stations at which dredgings ivere made on September 1, 1899. 
[The distances are measured from Gay Head Light in nautical miles.] 
Station. 
Lat. N. 
Long. W. 
Locality off 
Gay Head. 
Paths. 
Bottom. 
Date. 
Temperature. 
Hour. 

Bottom. 
Surface. 
7068 
o / // 
40 04 00 
o / 
70 20 
S. 80miles... 
95 
Hard sand 
Sept. 1 
°F. 
52. 4 
o F' 
71. 6 
5.05 a.m. 
7000 
40 01 30 
70 21 
S. 82 miles... 
122 
do ... 
50. 7 
73. 94 
7070 
39 58 30 
70 10 
S. 88 miles. . . 
198 
Sand, mud 
....do ... 
48. 6 
74. 12 
8.45 a. m. 
7071 
39 59 30 
70 19 
S. 87 miles. . . 
168 
do 
....do ... 
49.2 
75. 74 
10.25 a.m. 
LIST OF SPECIMENS. 
In the following list the previously ascribed range of each species is given. The 
fish were identified by Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Mr. Barton A. Bean. It will be noticed 
that 8 species are recorded from new localities. The pelagic copepoda collected are 
accounted for in a special paper by Prof. W. M. Wheeler, entitled “The Free-swimming 
Copepods of the Woods Hole region,” in the Bulletin of the United States Fish Com- 
mission for 1899, pages 157-192 : 
CCELENTERATA. 
Pelagia cyanella Peron & Le Sueur. Caribbean Sea to St. Georges Bank. One specimen. Surface. 
Medusa. Dr. R. P. Bigelow, of Boston, Mass., states that this form seems to belong to a new genus 
and species of Mginida ;, which will shortly be described. One specimen. Surface. Sta. 7068. 
Pennatula aculeata Koren & Danielsseu. Range, 97 to 1,255 fathoms. Ten specimens. Trawled. 
Adamsia sociabilis Verrill. Range, 79 to 410 fathoms. Abundant as commensal of Catapagurus sharreri. 
Trawled. 
Epizoanthus americanus Verrill. Range, off New Jersey to Gulf of St. Lawrence. Hundreds of speci- 
mens growing on gasteropod shells inhabited by Evpagurus pubescens. Trawled. 
Sagartia abyssicola (Koren &. Danielsseu) Verrill. Range, 69 to 610 fathoms. Generally two or three 
occurred on each tube of Hyalincecia artifex, of which thousands were trawled. 
Urticina perdix Verrill. Range, 63 to 190 fathoms. Several specimens obtained by schooner Grampus 
on trawls set for tile-fish. 
Actinauge nodosa Fabr. Range, 86 to 1,098 fathoms. About 20 specimens. Trawled, 
Bolocera tuedice Gosse. Range, 37 to 1,106 fathoms. One specimen. Trawled. 
Tealia crassicornis Gosse? Range, North Sea and Baltic. One specimen. Trawled. 
JDasmosmilia lymani Pourtales. Range, 65 to 179 fathoms. Six specimens. Trawled. 
