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bottom vith the ladder hanging from it. In the grass were many points of 
light. Some of them were eye -ref lections, and some, I think, carried 
their own laji^is. Many of the animals owning the lights turned out to 
be red shrimps. Under the glare of the lights I had merely to bend 
down and pick up those fellows. They came alive fast enough when I had 
them in my hand, but up to that tlir© they were Iqrpnotlzed, 
After half an hour or so we climbed back up into the boat into the 
tangle of hoses and electric wires. This is a new thing, almost as 
though we never had dived before. It will take a few dives before we 
can observe accurately and be completely at ease. Next time we will 
try a different location. We drove back over the quiet sea, with the 
sky full of stare and a sliver of moon on the horizon; and down below 
the dark ocean, with here ard there a S|®.rk on the bottom. I thought 
of all the eyes we would see if we were down there shining our lights. 
July 11th . Out for stonatopods early this morning. Have a small five- 
sided enclosure, the diffuser, and the screen box with three or four 
st<Haatopods in it. The enclosure is to be set down over the home of 
a possible subject, and then situations can be created that will show 
us what kind of fellow a stomatopod really is. 
We found a green stomatopod about three inctes long living in a 
small coral rock on the rubbly bottom, put the glass-sided enclosure 
over him, and then settled down to watch. I offered him a minnow, and 
he leapt for it, allowing me to carry him about above the bottom while 
he tugged and slashed at it with his front feet. I wouldn't let him 
