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also the marginal index of hind wings ; and the blotch or spot at 

 apical angle of fore wings being much lighter in colour and more 

 distinctly denned. A. ELLIOT, Caverton, Roxburgh. 



Daetyloeotyle palmatum (Leucharf) in the Moray Firth. A 



few specimens of this curious Trematode were obtained on the gills 

 of a Ling (Molva vulgaris) caught in the Moray Firth last November. 

 This leech-like parasite does not appear to be very common ; I do 

 not know of any previous Scottish record for it. The anterior end 

 is obliquely two-lobed, and each lobe terminates in four finger-like 

 appendages : the lobes are opposite each other, and grasp the gill- 

 arch much the same as an object is grasped by the fingers and thumb 

 of the human hand. THOMAS SCOTT, Leith. 



Rhinealanus gigas, Brady, in the Moray Firth. A specimen 

 of this Copepod was captured in the Moray Firth, off Nairn, on the 

 1 6th of October last. So far as I know, this is only the third time 

 Rhinealanus gigas has been recorded as having been found in the 

 Scottish seas : it was first obtained in some tow-net material from 

 Orkney collected in 1889, and in February of the following year I 

 obtained the same species twenty-two miles south-east of Montrose. 

 THOMAS SCOTT, Leith. 



Euealanus erassus, Giesbrecht, in the Moray Firth. A speci- 

 men of this Copepod was obtained in the same gathering of tow-net 

 material collected off Nairn in which RJiincalanus gigas occurred. 

 There is no previous record of Eucalanus erassus from the East 

 Coast of Scotland. THOMAS SCOTT, Leith. 



Asteroeheres violaeeus (Clans) from the Firth of Clyde. 



Quite recently I obtained two specimens of this somewhat rare 

 species in some material collected last year off Pladda Island, Firth 

 of Clyde. The species has not before been recorded from Scotland, 

 but my son (who has published a description, with drawings, of the 

 species) has recorded it from the Irish Sea (see Giesbrecht's 

 Revision of the Ascomyzontidce, published in "Zoologischer Anzeiger," 

 Nos. 521 and 522, 1897). THOMAS SCOTT, Leith. 



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Scotch Euphrasise. Dr. von Wettstein of Prague, who has 

 recently published a monograph of the genus Euphrasia, has kindly 

 looked over a few of my specimens gathered in Scotland. They 

 include the following, which are described as species in the 

 monograph alluded to : 



Euphrasia curta, Fries ("Nov. Fl. Suec." (1828), ed. ii. p. 198, 



