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Notes and Memoranda. 



Aphia pellucida. Nardo. This species has been hitherto known 

 iu the Plymouth district from a single example taken at the surface, 

 south of the Mewstone {cf. Cunningham, vol. iii. p. 166). During the 

 present year it has proved to be rather abundant in the estuarine 

 waters, and has also been taken at sea. The following records may 

 be cited : 



LynJier River. 14th April. "Deep water" above Waterlake to 

 Anthony passage. More than twenty specimens altogether ; most 

 abundant towards the upper part of the area named, where they 

 occurred in company with young herring of similar size and trans- 

 lucency. No large and fully differentiated males were taken on 

 this occasion. 



Tamar Riccr. 18th May. Kiln Bay. Two specimens, large male 

 and half grown. 



Cawsand Bay. 9th June. Zostera beds. A large male. — E. W. L. H. 



Cantharus lineatus. Mont. An example, 6^ inches long, was 

 taken in the seine on the 2nd July, 1897, at the junction of the 

 Tamar and Lynher rivers, i.e., at the upper end of the Hamoaze. 

 Couch remarks that this fish sometimes enters harbours, but I believe 

 it has not been previously observed to ascend estuaries on our coasts. 

 Small examples, such as the present, seem to be of rare occurrence. 



E. W. L. H. 



Gobius Jeffreysii. GUnthcr. {G. quadrimaculatvs. Day, ncc aucL). 

 This goby has been recorded from Norway, the Faroe channel, the 

 Hebrides, the Clyde estuary, and the south-west of Ireland. Its range 

 may now be extended to the English Channel, owing to the capture 

 of six specimens, of adult size, in about nineteen fathoms, south of 

 the Plymouth Mewstone, on 30th March, 1897. It is probably common 

 enough in this district, and may have escaped attention partly by 

 its deep-water habitat, and ]iartly from a certain resemblance which 

 it bears to G. minutus. — E. W. L. H. 



Arnoglossus Grohmanni. Bonaparte. A fine male of this species 

 was trawled south of the Plymouth Mewstone on the 30tli IMarch, 



