342 THE GREAT SILVER SMELT, "ARGENTINA SILUS." 



cases, to be the muscular tissue of shrimps or prawns. A much 

 macerated telson, the only hard part found, appeared to belong, most 

 probably, to a shrimp, certainly to that section of the Crustacea 

 macrura which embraces the shrimps and prawns. I also found a 

 sin»le copepod, identified by Mr. T. V. Hodgson as Calanus finmarchichus. 

 The latter is often met with at the bottom, and has been found by 

 myself in the stomachs of pleuronectids, while all available evidence 

 seems to indicate that A. silus is a bottom-haunting fish. 



Ichthyologists will observe that this record sensibly extends the 

 range of A. silus in a southerly direction. Comment on the matter 

 may well be withheld until we possess even an elementary knowledge 

 of the fauna of the deeper parts of our own region. It is hardly 

 necessary to add that the specimen has been handed over to the 

 custody of the British Museum. 



