FISHES OF THE FIRTH OF FORTH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 211 

 Two, ches, Station 5, on the icth May 



One, 6 inches, Station 8, 9 th May 1889. Board Scot.," 1889, 



One, 15. 75 inches, Dunbar, 2nd June 1889. ) lll> P ' 357 '' 



One examined by me was captured five miles east of the Isle of 



May on the 9th of December 1892. 

 One, 9 inches, Station 5, 24th February 1892 ("Rep. Fish. Board 



Scot.," part iii. p. 48). 



One, 9 inches, Station 9. igth February 1892 (t.c. p. 50). 

 One, 8 inches, Station 9, 6th May 1892 (t.c. p. 61). 

 One, 7 inches, Station 9, i2th September 1892 (t.c. p. 84). 

 One, ii inches, Station 3, 26th December 1893 (fP- c ^- I &93, P art 



iii. p. 95). 

 One, ii inches, Station 9, i2th September 1894 (op. at. 1894, part 



iii. p. 49). 

 One, 5 inches, Station i, i7th April 1895 (op. cit. 1895, P art "i- P- 



35)- 

 One, full-grown, end of November 1897, caught near the Isle of 



May. It was considered by the fishermen to be very rare (W. 

 Evans). 



Mr. Thomas Scott informs me that on the 4th of December 

 1897 he received a finely-coloured specimen which had been 

 caught by a Granton trawler off the Carr Lightship on the 

 previous day. It was 17! inches in length. 



HlPPOGLOSSOIDES LIMANDOIDES (Bhctl) [H. PLATESSOIDES 



(Fabric ins}\ 



Platessa Hmandoidcs, PARNELL, pp. 368-370. First recorded as 

 British from Forth specimens (" Edin. New Phil. Jour.," 1835, 

 p. 210) captured in the summer of 1834. 



Parnell gives us no further particulars regarding the Long Rough 

 Dab as a Forth fish. It is, however, an abundant species within 

 and just outside the Firth. On the 6th of July 1895, when on a 

 trawling expedition in the " Garland," we captured many specimens 

 a little below Inchkeith. 



During ten years' (1886-1895) experimental trawling by the 

 "Garland" in various stations in the Firth, about 6570 mature and 

 over 9000 immature specimens of this Pleuronectid were obtained. 



ARNOGLOSSUS MEGASTOMA (Donovan\ 

 EAGLE CLARKE, "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1900, p. 14. 



In addition to the previous information afforded, I find that, dur- 

 ing the trawling experiments of the " Garland," seventeen examples 

 of the Sail Fluke were obtained in the Firth between 1889 and 1896. 



