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Show DEEP-WATER FISH CARRIES OWN LIGHT Special Cable to Tho Tribune. SYDNEY", Sept. 13. A new species of fish having the appearance of an eloctrl-cAlly eloctrl-cAlly lighted ferryboat has boon secured ln the Australian Bight at the depth of 350 fathoms. This curious fish, which has fifty-throe fifty-throe brilliant light organs on either Blue of Its body, which Itself shines like a mirror, has been named the tudor. It was hauled to tho surface by the trawler Kndoavor. and will bo placed on exhibition exhibi-tion at the Australian musoum at Sydney. Syd-ney. Moro than a hundred other entirely new varieties were obtained, all tho specimens Inhabiting theae submarine, depths lxslng more or less luminous. Sovoral fish of a Jot black color, with a skin llko vclvot, studded ajl over with scintillating encrustations of bluish light, were also obtained, some being shaped like a pair of bellows. |