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Paromola cuvieri, which also was captured off the west 

 coast of Scotland. 



Paromola cuvieri, like its near relatives, lives in 

 moderately deep water, and for long was supposed to exist 

 only in the Mediterranean Sea, and in the adjacent parts of 

 the Atlantic Ocean, from the neighbourhood of the Canary 

 Islands to the Coast of Portugal. In 1908, however, a 



PAROMOLA CUVIERI (Risso), FROM BETWEEN FLANNAN ISLANDS AND 

 BUTT OF LEWIS. (About \ natural size). 



stray specimen was found alive in a shore pool on the south 

 of Ireland, some distance to the west of Cork, and in re- 

 cording this Halbert refers also to specimens dredged, during 

 the investigations carried out by the Fisheries Branch of the 

 Irish Department of Agriculture, 68 miles south-west of 

 Ireland, in water from 627 to 728 fathoms deep. 



The occurrence of the present specimen off the Butt of 

 Lewis widens considerably the northern boundary of the 

 tract within which Paromola cuvieri is known to live. 



THE ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, EDINBURGH. 



