FOOD OF YOUNG WINTER FLOUNDERS. 5 
3. Length, 81.—Food: Copepods, 95; débris, 5. Entozoa: 247 appendiculate dis- 
tomes in stomach. 
4. Length, 81.—Food: Copepods, 30; débris, mostly sand, 70; alimentary canal nearly 
empty. Entozoa: 145 Tupenciowate distomes in stomach, 
5. Length, 87.—Food: Amphipods, 50; copepods, 10; débris, 40. Entozoa: 3 ap- 
pendiculate distomes in stomach. 
6. Length, 3Y.—Food: Annelids, 40; copepods, 10; zoex, 10; ostracodes, 10; amphi- 
ds, 10; débris, 20; small fragment of Sagartia. Entozoa: 12 appendiculate distomes 
in stomach, 4 small nematodes, 
7. Length, 40.—Food: Amphipods, 20; cumacea, 20; copepods, 5; Crepidula, 5; 
ostracodes, 5; annelids, 30; débris, 15. A small fragment of the body wall of a synapta 
was noted. Entozoa: 200 appendiculate distomes in stomach. 
8. Length, 43.—Food: Amphipods, 10; zoex, 10; copepods, 10; annelids, 60; débris, 
10. Entozoa: 24 appendiculate distomes in stomach. 
9. Length, 44.—Food: Amphipods, 65; copepods, 10; ostracodes, 4; Sagartia, 5; 
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nemerteans, 5; Crepidula, 5; débris, 6. Entozoa: 24 appendiculate distomes in 
stomach, 3 in intestine; 4 small nematodes, length 5. 
10. Length, 44.—Food: Amphipods, 25; ostracodes, 25; copepods, 25; Crepidula, 5; 
débris (fragments of crustacea), 20; 1 zoea noted. Entozoa: 80 appendiculate dis- 
tomes in stomach, 3 small nematodes. 
11. Length, 48.—Kood: Amphipods, 90; débris, 10; one small insect larva (Chiro- 
nomus) noted. Contents of alimentary canal almost completely digested, its nature 
revealed only when the compound microscope was used. Entozoa: 4 distomes. 
12. Length, 49.—Food: Amphipods, 90; débris, 10; 1 insect larva noted. 
13. Length, 52.—Food: Amphipods, 80; Crepidula, 20. 
14, Length, 58.—Food: Amphipods, 100. 
15. Length, 115.—Food: Amphipods, 50; Crepidula, 10; débris, 40; 1 small anneliu 
noted. Entozoa: A few sporozoan cysts on wall of intestine. 
16. Length, 120.—Food: Amphipods, 95; crabs, 1; Crepidula, 2; débris, 2. Entozoa: 
Sporozoan cysts on intestine. 
17. Length, 120.—Food: Amphipods, 80; crabs, 10; Crepidula, 2; débris, 8. Entozoa: 
A few sporozoan cysts on intestine. 
18. Length, 120.—Food: Amphipods, 15; crabs, 15; Limulus, 15; Crepidula, 5; anne- 
lids, 45; débris, 5. 
19. Length, 125.—Food: Annelids, 95; débris, 5. 
20. Length, 130.—Food: Limulus, 2; clams, 50; Crepidula, 15; annelids, 3; débris, 30; 
a few strands of alge. Entozoa: 1 distome. 
21. Length, 135.—Food: Amphipods, 98; crabs, 2. Entozoa: 2 distomes. 
22. Length, 135.—Food: Amphipods, 60; crabs, 30; shrimp, 5; gastropods, 5. 
23. Length, 140.—Food: Amphipods, 5; crabs, 2; Limulus, 1; bivalve mollusks, 2; 
annelids, 90. The mollusks were a small Crepidula and fragments of a small clam. 
Entozoa: 3 distomes. 
: 24. Length, 150.—Food: Amphipods, 8; spider crabs, 3; clam, 1; annelids, 80; 
ébris, 8. 
25. Length, 170.—Food: Nothing in alimentary canal that could be identified except 
a few fragments of algze and what appeared to be remains of the mantles of clams. 
Entozoa: | distome. 
26. Length, 199.—Food: Amphipods, 5; mollusks (small clam and small gastropod), 
15; annelids, 75; débris, 5. Entozoa: 2 distomes. 
Summarizep Recor or Foop anv Parasires or 398 SMALL WinTER FLOUNDERS 
(PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS) COLLECTED AT Woops Ho.e, Mass., 
AND Vicinity, 1915 anp 1916. 
[Figures referring to food represent average per cent of volume; figures referring to parasites, where not 
otherwise indicated, represent numerical average. The lengths are given in millimeters. The stations 
have been arranged according to dates as if of one year.] 
STATION 1. GREAT HARBOR, MAY 2, 1916. 
. 
Length, 26 to 50.—Number examined, 1. Food: Amphipods, 85; Cumacea, trace; 
insect larvee, 1; débris, 14. Parasites: Distomes, 4. 
Length, 51 to 75.—Maximum length, 72; minimum, 64; average, 70.8. Number 
examined, 4. Food: Amphipods, 48.8; annelids, 17.5; copepods, trace; insect larvee, 
1.5; débris, 32.2. Parasites: Distomes in each, average 16; Sporozoa, 8 small cysts 
on intestinal walls of one. 
Length, 76 to 100.—Maximum length, 97; minimum, 76; average, 87.7. Number 
examined, 3. Food: Amphipods, 20; annelids, 48.3; shrimp, 30; débris, 1.6. Para- 
sites: Distomes, 2.3; nematodes, 1 young Ascaris in stomach of one fish. 
