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closely resembles that of A. marionls. The length of a 

 female with ova is 2 mm. 



' The occmTence of species so closely ahied as those 

 mentioned above in such widely separated regions as 

 Marion Island in latitude 48^ S. and the west coast of 

 Greenland is very interesting, as also is the presence of 

 well-developed eyes in A . melanops and A . oculatus, taken 

 in from 5 to 25 fathoms; while in A. marionis and 

 A. temiimamcs, taken in 100 to 200 fathoms, they are 

 imperfect. It is very probable that it was this species 

 {A. melanops) to which Mr. Stebbing referred* as having 

 been sent to him by Mr. Eobertson from the Clyde." 



In regard to the Mollusca a large number of species have 

 been collected by the Committee; and Mr. Alfred Leicester, 

 who has examined and identified them, has drawn up a 

 list of seventy-eight species which have not before been 

 found off the south coast of the Isle of Man, while thirty 

 of them are new records for the district, these include the 

 following : — Lepton darhicB, Pecten testce, Nucida sulcata, 

 Kellia sicborbicidaris, Gardium minimum, Isocarclia cor, 

 Thracia distorta, Eulima intermedia, Odostomia luhisi, 

 0. conoidea, Bissoa abyssicola, B. violacea, Cylichna 

 umhiUcata, Aclis gulsonce, Utriculus hyalinus, Propylidium 

 ancyloides, Gcecum trachea, Philine scahra, P. angulata, 

 Bulla utriculus, Melampus myosotis, Trochus helicinus, 

 and Cyclostrerna millepunctatum, the last being new to 

 British seas. Some of these were found by Dr. Chaster. 



We have also taken the two Brachiopods Crania anomala 

 and Terehratula caput-serpentis, and the rare Cephalopod 

 Sepiola scandica, (new record), as well as the more 

 common S. atlantica. Mr. Walker has several times 

 found Loligo forhesii at Colwyn Bay. 



In regard to fishes, although most of the hauls on the 



* 'Challenger' Report on Amphipoda, p. 746. 



