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Some Irish Nudibranch Molluscs. 



A list of the Nudibranchiate Molluscs of Ballynakill and Bofin Har- 

 bours, Co. Galway, is given by Mr. G. P. Farran in Part II. of the Report 

 on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland for 1901. The variet}' of ground in 

 Ballynakill Harbour evidently affords good collecting ground for Nudi- 

 branchs, as fifty-one species are enumerated in the list, and nearlv all 

 these species were found in this harbour. Mr. Farran suggests the name 

 Doris Bcaiinwnti for a new species of Doris, specimens of which were 

 obtained at Ballynakill; it had already been met with by Mr. W. I. 

 Beaumont at Port Erin and Valentia, but had not been described. The 

 following six species ■.—Lamellidoris depressa, L. sparsa, Cratena viridis, Gal- 

 vinavittata, G. cingidata, and Calma ghuicoides, also have not been previously 

 recorded from the Irish coast. 



Additions to the Irish Fish fauna. 



So very few papers on Fishes have been published in recent years, that 

 we welcome Messrs. Holt and Byrne's articles on the British and Irish 

 Gobies, on a young stage of the White Sole, and on the British and Irish 

 Stromaieidoi, with particular pleasure. We only fear that the Report on 

 the Sea and Inland Fisheries op Ireland for 1901, in which these interesting 

 papers have appeared, may not be as readily accessible to zoologists as 

 they deserve. 



Part II. of the Report, which contains the scientific investigations, 

 appeals to the readers of the Irish Naturalist vaorQ especial!}-. Besides' 

 the articles referred to, the problems of the propagation of Salmon and 

 Trout are also dealt with, as well as the relationship between the size 

 and sexual maturity of Pollan. There is, in fact, quite a wealth of useful 

 information in the Report for the ichthyologist and fisherman. 



As regards the first paper only four species of Irish Gobies were known 

 when Dr. ScharfF wrote his " Catalogvie of Irish Fishes" in 1889. Gobius 

 Friesii was added to the Irish fauna a few years later under the name of 

 G. inacrolepis. 



Messrs. Holt and Calderwood added G. Jeffrey sii in 1895 {Trajis. R. D. 

 Soc, vol. v.). Two additional Irish species are now made known to us, 

 viz., G. pictns, and another, G. scorpioides, less than an inch in length. Two 

 beautifully coloured illustrations of the male and female of this rare 

 species are given. No such excellent figures of Gobies as those now 

 supplied have ever been published before. 



Only one new Irish species is added in the list of Irish Stromateidce 

 above referred to, but it is a very remarkable and noteworthy addition. 

 A specimen of American Lerns perciformis had been displayed in the 

 National Museum under the name of Centrolophus pompilus ; thin Messrs. 

 Holt and Byrne were able to identify after a careful scrutinj'. It had 

 been discovered by the late Fishery Inspector, William Andrews, in 

 Dingle Bay in 1871, and named by him. 



