26 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



As a British fish Lumpenus lampetriformis is as yet 

 entirely confined to the Scottish waters of the North Sea. 

 It would appear, however, to be extending its range south- 

 wards, and will no doubt be sooner or later captured on the 

 English coast. It is a common fish on the Norwegian coast, 

 being most numerous in the extreme north ; but it occurs in 

 the Baltic, and also in the Iceland, Greenland, and Spitz- 

 bergen Seas. 



Two coloured illustrations have appeared of this interest- 

 ing fish during the present year (i 894): one of these is given 

 in Professor Smitt's " Scandinavian Fishes," Plate XL Fig. 5 ; 

 the second in the " Report of the Fishery Board for Scot- 

 land " for 1893, part. iii. Plate III. Fig. 2. 



GADUS MINUTUS, Linn. Power Cod. 



This species is not included in Dr. Parnell's classical 

 essay on the " Fishes of the Forth." Among the material 

 submitted to me by Mr. Scott is a specimen of this fish 4.18 

 inches in length, which was captured west of the Isle of 

 May on the 29th of April 1890. Mr. Scott informs me 

 that it is not a common species in the Forth, and is chiefly 

 confined to the moderately deep water between May Island 

 and Fidra and Elie, and at the mouth of the Firth, east of 

 the May Island and the Bass* Rock. 



RHOMBUS PUNCTATUS, Block. Mailer's Topknot. 



The Little Black Hairy Fluke, as this fish is known in 

 the Forth, does not appear to be by any means a common 

 fish on the Scottish coasts. One sent to me by Mr. Scott 

 was trawled in Largo Bay on the 1 5th of February 1890, 

 and is 3.68 inches in length. I have a note regarding 

 another Forth specimen, also taken in Largo Bay, on the 

 2 ist of March 1889. 



RHOMBUS NORVEGICUS, Giinther. Ekstrom's Topknot. 



Professor M'Intosh, F.R.S., records in the " Report of the 

 Fishery Board for Scotland," 1893 (part. iii. pp. 227-228), 



