24 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



This species has been recorded from Plymouth by 

 Messrs. Bate and Westwood, and from Banff by the 

 late Mr. Edward. It has also been found, in 40 

 fathoms, on the Middle Haaf fishing-ground, Shet- 

 land, in great abundance, by the Rev. A. M. Norman 

 and Dr. J. G. Jeffreys. 



Genus Ampelisca, Kroyer. 

 ampelisca gaimardi, Kroyer. 



Ampelisca Gaimardi, Kroyer, Voy. en Scand., pi. 

 23, fig. 1. 



Araneops diadema, A. Costa, Rend. del. Accad. Sc. 

 di Nap. (1853), p. 171, tab. i., fig. 1. 



Tetromatus typicus, Spence Bate, Brit. Assoc. Rep. 

 1855, p. 58. 



Bijblis Gaimardi, A. Boeck, Crust. Amphip. Bor. et 

 Arct. (1870), p. 148. 



Habitat.— This species is common all round our 

 shores. It is found off Dunoon in 15 fathoms, 

 bottom sandy gravel ; off the Row pier, towards 

 Roseneath, in 10 to 12 fathoms, bottom stinking black 

 soft mud, which seemed to be relished by not a few 

 genera of the Crustacea ; off the Caple Rock, Cum- 

 brae, in 10 fathoms, bottom mud, gravel, and shell 

 debris ; west of the Tan Buoy, in 14 fathoms, 

 mud and dead shells ; off the south side of the 

 Allans, Cumbrae, in 8 to 10 fathoms, mud and 

 stones ; and off the east side of Callum's Bay, 

 Bute, in 14 fathoms, bottom gravelly. It has 

 been taken in the Moray Firth by the Rev. G. 

 Gordon ; off the island of Skye by Mr. Barlee ; on 

 Nishbank, Dublin Bay, by Professor Kinahan; in 

 Plymouth Sound, by Mr. T. P. Smyth and Messrs. 

 1 Sate and Westwood ; in 20 fathoms, at the entrance 

 of Belfast Bay, by Messrs. Hyndman and E. Goodsir ; 

 in the Shetlands, in Outer Skerries Harbour, in 

 from one to two fathoms ; and sixty miles east of 

 Shetland, in from 70 to 90 fathoms, by the Rev. A. 

 M. Norman and Dr. J. G. Jeffreys. 



