Records of Spawn, 



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TABLE II. 



Kecords of Spawn. 



The records of the occurrence of isolated pelagic Lophius eggs are all from 

 Scottish waters. Other references have been made to the occasional occurrence 

 of such isolated eggs, but no precise statements are given of the numbers, date, 

 or locaUty. For example, Ehrenbaum in " Nordisches Plankton " merely mentions 

 the fact that isolated pelagic eggs of Lophius also occur. 



The single record of the capture of an isolated egg in Scottish waters was made 

 by M'Intosh in 1891. He refers to the occurrence of an excej)tionally large egg 

 caught in a tow-net in St. Andrews Bay by the Garland on 3rd July 1891. " A 

 week later, a considerable portion of the gelatinous mass containing the ova of the 

 Angler was found in the stake nets, off the East Rock, having apparently been 



