224 Holt & Bhaumont — Survejj of FisMnri-gronnds, W. Coast of Ireland, 1890-91. 



Previous Irish Records.— OS S.W. of Ireland, 90 (and 1630) fathoms (A. M. N.*); 

 off Co. Kerry, 40 fathoms (A. 0. W.*). 



Distribution.— East of Shetland (A.M.N.*). 



Norway; Bay of Biscay; south of Cape of Good Hope (A. M. N.*) ; Medi- 

 terranean (Caullery, Pruvot). 



Family.— EUPHAUSIDiE.t 

 Genus Nyctiphanes, G. 0. Sars. 

 Nyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars). 



Surveij. — Station 115, off the Skelligs, 62 to 52 fathoms, mud and sand. August 

 20th, 1890. 



Station 165, 28 miles N.W. of Achill Head, 154 fathoms, sand, April 20th, 1891 

 (a number of specimens in the stomach of a black-mouthed dog-fish, Pristiurus 

 melanostoma : they were bright blue before preservation). 



Marine Lahorator>j. — 8 miles off Achill Head, 13th April, 1899 (many specimens 

 in stomach of mackerel from surface drift-net). 



Ilusetwi, Dublin. — No. 114, 1896. Whitepool Bay, Co. Antrim, per Mr. R. 

 Welch. A number of specimens cast ujd on the beach. 



Previous Irish Records.— 0& Valentia (A. M. N.*) : Valenlia Harbour (A. 0. W.*) : 

 off N. of Ireland (Herdman). 



Distribution. — East and west coasts of Scotland (A. M. N.*): Irish Sea and 

 North Channel (Herdman). 



Norway, Faroe Channel, &c. ; N.E. America (A. M.N.*): Bay of Biscay 

 (Caullery) : N.E. America (Herdman). 



The presence of these Schizopods in the stomach of a ground-fish like Pris- 

 tiurus affords fairly conclusive proof that they are not at all times pelagic in habit. 

 The specimens from off the Skelligs may have been taken either at the bottom or 

 during the ascent of the net, and the same remark would seem to apply to 

 creatures taken in any ordinary net which cannot be opened and closed at given 

 depths. Professor Herdman obtained his material entirely at the siu-face by 

 means of the pumps of an Atlantic liner (Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc, sii., 1898, 

 p. 33); and it is noteworthy that the species was only met with off the coasts of 

 the European and American continents, and not in the central part of the 

 Atlantic. 



t Euphautia pellucida, Daua ; Stylocheiron sp. See Note jidded in Press, p. 250. 



