The three needlefishes were between 340 and 
360 ram in length; the stomachs were opened, and' 
one specimen was found to contain 3 crustaceans, 
probably ie 0 Bod e 6 ah o clacht AiS, 6l Sottt //f'A) 
another contained two of the small'atherinids 
of the same type as the other 27 specimens col¬ 
lected at this station; and the third contained 
some decomposed material which looked as though 
it might originally have been the bodies of tie 
same Atherinids mentioned above. 
According to Dr. Martin Johnson, the above 
mentioned Gonodactylus is a bottom inhabiting form, 
and is not known to come to the surface-and to 
his knowledge it has-not been taken in planckton 
hauls-consequently, the needlefish must have gone 
to the bottom to pick up thds Squillid. This is 
of interest in connection with the ra m paraperoid 
found in the stomach of a ra m needlefish at 
station •_, for parapercids are considered 
to be almost entirely bottom forms-and the local 
forms have not been observed at any time to be more 
than a few inches above the substratum. 
