524 Part III. — TiventietJi Annual Report 



The names of the various organisms are given in the tabulated 

 list annexed : — 



Species Found in Stomachs of Sail Flukes. 



Crustacea. 



Remains of Decapods. 



Eupagurus sj). 



Nika edulis, Risso. 



Crangon (?) allmanni, Kinahan. 



Remains of Euphausiidae sp. 



Erythrops serratus, G. O. Sars. 



Ampelisca hrevicornis (A. Costa). 



Other Things. 



Sepiola sp. 



Remains of Anne- 

 lids. 



ScALD-PisH, Platophrys laterna (Walb.). 



A single specimen from the Clyde was captured between Rhuad Point 

 and Ailsa Craig in 22 to 25 fathoms on October 4th, 1901, and measured 

 about 12|^ centimetres. A few fragments of Grangon allmanni was the 

 only food observed in the stomach of this specimen. 



Plaice. Pleuronectes platessa, L. 



Two hundred and twenty-six Plaice, most of them small, have 

 been examined. 



Eighteen specimens from the Moray Firth, collected ou May 18th, 

 1900, and measuring from 7i to 20 centimetres, appeared to have been 

 feeding for the most part on Lugworms, Arenicola sp., as the food 

 contained in their stomachs, as far as it could be distinguished, consisted 

 of the remains of these Annelids. 



One hundred and thirty-five specimens were from Annan (Solway Firth), 

 and were collected on April 30th, 1900 ; eighty -two of these specimens were 

 under 10 centimetres in length, while the other fifty-three I'anged from 

 10 to 19 centimetres. The stomachs of nearly all these fishes contained 

 food, but it was in many instances too imperfect for satisfactory 

 determination. The organism which composed the principal part 

 of the food of the smaller specimens was Eurntemora celox, one of the 

 Copepoda. Corop/mim grossipes, remains of Schizopods (Mysidae), larval 

 Balani, fragments of lamellibranch shells and of polychfete worms were 

 also occasionally observed. The food of the larger Plaice, on the other 

 hand, consisted for the most part of small lamellibranchs, such as 

 Tellina (chiefly T. haltica), Gardiuni sp. (probably young C. edtde and 

 C. fasclatnm). Copepods were rarely observed in the stomachs of the 

 larger Plaice. Another sample from Annan consisting of twenty-four 

 small specimens, ranging from 3f to 4| ceirtimetres in length and 

 collected on June 26th, exhibited, as regards their food, a somewhat 

 remarkable contrast to those previously examined which were collected in 

 April. The food in the stomachs of the present sample consisted entirely 

 of the Copepod Jonesiella spimdosa, one of the Harpacticidse ; this 

 species occurred in considerable numbers in almost all the stomachs in this 

 sample. In the stomachs of another sample from the same place and 

 collected at the same time, but ranging from 7 to 7^ centimetres 

 in length, Jonesiella was again of frequent occurrence, but a second 

 Harpactid — Canuella perplexa— was also moderately common; specimens 



