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few occurrences of rarities have been noted 
Marine Fishes. 
py Ma. W. J2-Glarke. 
On the 4th January a Cod-fish, caught by rod and line off 
the North Sands at Scarborough, contained in its stomach a 
freshly-killed Atherine ( Atherina presbyter), which was perfect 
in every way, and had ev idently only just been swallowed. This 
specimen is now preserved in the Scarborough Museum, together 
with another taken on Filey Brig, on 6th October, 1907, these 
being the only two specimens obtained in the district. 
On the 3rd November one full-grown and another about 
hal{-grown specimen of Montagu’s Suc ker (Liparis montagui) were 
found by Mr. Clarke in front of Holbeck Gardens, Scarborough, at 
about half tide. Mr. Clarke got the spawn of this species last spring, 
trawled in deep water off Scarborough. On the 17th November 
another specimen of this fish, a quite perfect full-grown example, 
freshly swallowed, was found in the stomach of a Cod weighing 
51 lbs., which was caught off the Marine Drive at Scarborough. 
This last specimen is being placed in the Scarborough Museum, 
and the species is quite new to the Yorkshire list. 
A Porbeagle (Lamna cornubica) about 5 feet in length, was 
taken in the herring- nets off Scarborough, on the 15th September ; 
and the following day a very large Shark was entangled in the 
nets, but being too big to get on board the boat, was cut adrift. 
A Tope (Galeus canis) measuring 4 feet 7 inches long, and 
weighing 22 lbs., was taken on rod and line in the South Bay at 
Scarborough on the 3rd of August. In Clarke and Roebuck’s 
Handbook of Yorkshire V ertebrata (1881), the species is stated 
to be common at Scarborough and in Bridlington Bay, but this 
is the first specimen that Mr. W. J. Clarke has been able to examine. 
Mr. Oxley Grabham records that he caught a Tope, 56 inches 
long, on a long line off Flamborough Head in September, also 
a Garfish, w hilst railing for Meveeaet which were very numerous 
off the Head. 
The Committee has been re-elected as follows :— 
Chairman, Representative on Executive, and on Committee 
of Suggestions—Arthur Whitaker, Barnsley. 
Convener—W. Denison Roebuck, Leeds. 
Other Members—H. B. Booth, Ben Rhydding; W. J. Clarke, 
Scarborough ; Riley Fortune, Harrogate; Oxley 
Grabham, M.A.,York; F. Lawson, Skelmanthorpe. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
LEPIDOPTERA.—Mr. A. Whitaker writes:—Once again it 
falls to our lot to have to attribute a poor year’s work by Yorkshire 
lepidopterists to unfavourable climatic conditions. Although 
over sixty lepidopterists throughout the county have been asked to 
contribute notes on the season’s collecting, only nine have thought 
it worth their while to do so, and this fact speaks volumes. 
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