1879.] OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE. 755 



The general average of the weight of the captures increased from 

 2 lb. in 1877, to 3 lb. in 1878, and 3 lb. 11 oz. in 1879 ; and an 

 examination of the figures leads to the belief that the broods were 

 much more numerous in the first than in the second or third year; 

 while the small size of those taken in 1877 would also seem to infer 

 the absence of large Turbot in Ballinskellig Bay at that time. In 

 1878 the figures apparently show that the increase in weight of the 

 fish had been from | to 2| lb. each fish, the highest numbers being 

 among examples from 2 to 4 lb., instead of from 1 to 2 lb. But in 1879 

 we again find a change, the highest numbers captured being among 

 those weighing from 3 to 5 lb. each, which would seem to confirm the 

 conclusions demonstrable from the figures in the preceding years. 



Rhombus ljsvis, Linn. The Brill. 

 Is occasionally taken at Weston. 



Rhombus megastoma, Donov. The Whiff, or Mary Sole. 

 Rhombus punctatus, Bloch. " Muller's Topknot." 



These fishes are both found in Devonshire ; the latter frequently in 

 the spring months. In Ballinskellig Bay this year Lord Ducie took 

 Whiffs between the middle and end of July, but none iu the 

 succeeding month. 



Arnoglossus laterna, Walb. The Scald-fish. 

 Somersetshire {Baker). 



Pleuronectes platessa, Linn. The Plaice. P. limanda, 

 Linn. The Dab. Pleuronectes microcephalus, Donovan. The 

 Smear Dab. 



Pleuronectes elongatus, Yarrell. (Plate LXI.) 



The talented author of the 'British Fishes' received an example 

 from Stolford in Somersetshire, where Mr. Baker obtained two 

 specimens; and Mr. Higgins (Zoologist, 1861, p. 7317) records 

 two more from Weston, which he gave to Mr. Couch. It is with 

 much pleasure that I have to record my thanks to that excellent 

 observer Mr. Matthias Dunn, of Megavissey, in Cornwall, for a fine 

 example, about 9 inches long, taken in 30 fathoms water by a trawler, 

 almost two miles from the Deadman, Cornwall, November 6th, 1879, 

 and which I received on the 10th. 



B. v., D. 115, P. 12, V. 6, A. 97, C. 19, L. 1. 115. 



Length of head 6^, of caudal fin 6|, height of body 3^ in the 

 total length. Eyes on the right side, and separated from each other 

 by a very narrow scaleless ridge, which is continued almost to the origin 

 of the lateral line ; lower eye one third in advance of the upper. 

 Lower jaw slightly the longer anteriorly, and has a tubercle below 

 the symphysis. Maxilla two thirds as long as the orbit, and extend- 

 ing to beneath the front edge of the lower eye. Body very thin, 

 its greatest thickness equalling one sixth of its greatest height, 

 excluding the vertical fins. Teeth in a single row, compressed, with 



