498 Survey of Fishing- Grounds, West Coast of Ireland, 1890—1891. 



accompany conclusions based on the examination of a limited number of specimens. 

 The large females are especially valuable, since the specimen C was previously the 

 solitary representative of this stage of the sex. 



The Plymouth examples arrived too late to be incorporated with the rest in 

 one series without great inconvenience, and we believe that to deal with them, as 

 it were, in an appendix to our previous remarks will be as useful as to rewrite the 

 whole. 



The specimens agree with those described by Mr. Cunningham himself in 

 having lost all the scales, except some of those of the lateral line, and, in most 

 cases, a great part of the skin also, and are thus in a worse state of preservation 

 than the few large Irish specimens. They are, however, none the less valuable 

 for comparison. 



The appended Table gives the more important particulars of the dimensions of 

 the majority of these specimens, with their fin-ray formulae. The individuals are 

 denoted by Roman numbers : — 



