NOTES ON ZECG0PTERU3 PCNCTATCS, 267 



XXXIII. 

 JOTTINGS FROM MY NOTE-BOOK. 



BY DAVID ROBERTSON, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Phycis blenxoides {Briin.}. 



[Read 29th April, 1890.] 



A SPECIMEN of this fish was recently brouglit to 

 me by a local fisherman, who stated that he had 

 never before seen one of the same kind. It measured 

 as follows : length, 24 inches ; longer forked ventral 

 fin, 6^ inches ; shorter fin, 5 inches. 



This species seems to have been sparingly taken 

 in Scotland, England, and Ireland. It also occurs 

 along the coasts of Scandinavia, the German Ocean, 

 and the Atlantic coasts of Europe, extending into 

 the Mediterranean where it is common. 



Zeugopterus PUNCTATUS, Bl. (Rhombus hirtus,Y arreU). 



[Read 23rd February, 1892.] 



The specimen under notice was taken by the long line 

 on the west side of Cumbrae in 20 fathoms water, 

 bottom hard ground. Although this fish is not con- 

 sidered rare, and appears to be widely distributed 

 all round the British coasts, it does not seem to be 

 anywhere abundant. Day, in his British Fishes, 

 states that among other places it occurs in Scotland 

 at the Orkneys, Aberdeen, Firth of Forth, Berwick- 

 shire, and Loch Creran, Argyllshire ; in England, 

 at Penzance, Bridlington, St. Leonards, Teignmouth, 

 and the British Channel ; and at various places round 

 the coast of Ireland. 



This species does not appear to acquire any great 

 size, and the same authority states that in British 



