[Reprinted from " The Annals of Scottish Natural History," October 1907.] 



CENTROLOPHUS NIGER, GMELIN, ON THE 

 SCOTTISH COAST, WITH A NOTE ON ONE 

 OR TWO POINTS IN ITS STRUCTURE. 



By John Rennie, D.Sc. 



In the month of June in the present year I received from 

 Mr. Ewen, schoolmaster, Cullen, a fish regarding which he 

 supplied me with the following note : " It was caught in a 

 net among herring. The locality was a herring area called 

 by fishermen 'Smith Bank,' a sandy tract about 18 to 25 

 miles N.E. of Cullen. The skipper thinks it had been feed- 



