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The present investigations add only seven new records of young bottom forms 

 less than 120 mm. long to the existing extremgly short list. Two small specimens, 

 64 and 67 mm. long respectively, were captured on 11th July 1906, in a small trawl 

 of fiiie mesh at 58° 41' N. ; 7° W., in a depth of 108 metres. Other two specimens, 

 72 mm. and 83 mm. long, were captured in the same apparatus on 12th July 1906, 

 at 59° N. ; 7° 4' W. in a depth of 182 metres. Again, a specimen of 69 mm. in length 

 was taken in the small trawl on 4th September 1906, at 60° 45' N. ; 2° 30' E., in 129 

 metres depth, and another of 116 mm., in Broad Bay (Mincli) in 11 metres depth 

 on 20th September 1906. The only specimen under 120 mm. in length, captured 

 in the ordinary commercial trawl, was one of 94 mm. taken off Berriedale (Moray 

 Firth) in 22 24 fathoms on 14th October 1911. 



Reference has already been made to the small Angler of 127 mm. in length 

 obtained by Fulton (1902) in November, in a trawl haul made in the Dornoch 

 Firth in a depth of 8-11 fathoms. He also gives an account of the capture of a 

 very large number of small Anglers in a single trawl haul off Lybster, on the Caith- 

 ness coast, in a depth of 23-34 fathoms in the month of November. No less than 

 twenty-seven of the thirty-six Anglers taken in this haul were under 200 mm. 

 (7| inches). The smallest individual was 128 mm. long, and the largest 198 mm. 

 Fulton, in reference to the distribution of the Angler, also states that the proportion 

 of young Anglers on the deep-water grounds of tlie North Sea appears to be higher 

 than on the inshore trawling grounds. 



M'Intosh and. Masterman (1897) record an example 5| inches long (140 mm.), 

 which was cast ashore in St. Andrews Bay in March. 



There are the two specimens 94 mm. and 78 mm. long, recorded by Dilben 

 and Koren, from the west coast of Norway. 



Saemundsson (1909) reports that a small bottom form of the young Angler, 

 now in the museum at Reykjavik, was found cast ashore at the Westmann Isles 

 (Iceland). No date is given. 



Finally, Lo Bianco (1908-9) gives the most complete information as to the 

 occurrence of young bottom forms in the Mediterranean. He says that in the 

 mouths March to May there were fished with the seine-net on shallow ground 

 young ones of lengths 6 to 15 cms. 



The tabulated hst of small bottom forms under 200 mm. in length is as follows : — 



TABLE VI. 



Records of Small Bottom Forms. 



