328 Hoi/r & Beaumont — Survey of Fishing-grounds, W. Coast of Ireland, 1890-91. 



Siriella armata (Milne- Edwards). 



SirieUit intermedia, Gouiret, Aim. iliis. Hist. Nat. Mavs., iii., 1889, llera. v., p. 183, Pis. xvii. xvin. 



Survey. — Blacksod Bay, August 6tli, 1890. 



Station 1-15, Killeany Bay, Aran, April 8th, 1891. 



Killeany Bay, July 26th, 1890. 



3Iarine Laboratory. — Mouth of Killeany Bay, 25th March, 1899 ; Blacksod 

 Bay, 29th March, 1899; Ballynakill Harbour, 15th May, 1899; Bofin Harbour, 

 August, 1899 (common among weeds, but only one young example in tow-net 

 with S. Clausii\ 



Museum, Dublin. — No. 195, 1895. Roundstone. 



Previous Irish Record. — Valentia Hai'bour (A. O. W.*). 



Distribution. — E. and W. Scotland ; Isle of Man ; S. and S.W. England 

 (A. M. N.*): Irish Sea (A. O. W.). 



Trieste, Guletta (A. M. N.*) : Marseilles (Gourret): Brittany; Gulf of Lyons 

 (Pruvot): off Vlieland, North Sea (Ehrenbaum). Jersey (A. M. N.*). 



We have recently shown [Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., s. 7, March, 1899, p. 151) that 

 British records of *S'. frontalis refer in realit^^ to *S'. armata, there being no evidence 

 of the occurrence of the former within the British area. The variability of 

 certain characters, noted in Plymouth examples of S. armata, is equally present 

 in Irish specimens. 



We believe that S. intermedia, Gourret, from Marseilles, is separated by its 

 discoverer from S. armata on quite insufficient grounds. The least unimportant 

 distinction that we can discover in the text is the relative shortness of the rostrum ; 

 but this disappears in the light of Gourret's own remark (ojo. ciY., p. 182) that 

 Marseilles examples of ^S*. armata have a shorter rostrum than is figured by Sars. 



Pruvot, who enumerates in liis list both S. armata and 3Iysis Griffithsice, Bell, 

 may intend thereby to convey the intimation that he rejects Norman's view of the 

 identity of these species with eacli otlier. On the other hand the entrj' may be 

 no more than evidence of carelessness of compilation. 



Sub-family. — GASTROsACCiNiE. 



Genus Gastrosaccus, Norman. 



Gastrosaccus spinifer (Goes). 



Survey. — Station 223, Loughrosmore Bay, 9 to 4 fathoms, sand. IMny 21.st, 

 1891. 



Marine Laboratory. — Blacksod Bay, 29th March, 1899. 



