516 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 



"Dingle Bay," but does not mention liow many specimens were 

 obtained, nor date of capture ; and as Ventry harbour opens 

 into Dingle Bay, tbis is probably the old record reproduced in 

 a different form. Such carelessness is very reprehensible, and 

 materially increases the difficulty of obtaining reliable records in 

 all branches of Irish natural history. 



Zeusfaber. — Dorees are by no means common about Portrush, 

 where such as are obtained are chiefly taken by the trawlers. They 

 are of small size, about 2 lbs. being the average, and 4 lbs. the 

 largest I have ever seen there. In the ordinance survey of Temple- 

 more (v. supra, Lampris luna) this fish is mentioned as having 

 been taken on the 9th July, 1835. All the species included in this 

 report are stated to have been captured "in or above the salmon 

 nets at Oulmore," some twenty miles above the mouth of the 

 Foyle. 



Scicena aquila. — The single Irish specimen was caught opposite 

 the town of Passage, which is above Queenstown, Cork, and quite 

 six miles from the entrance to the harbour. (This mistake pro- 

 bably arose from the omission of the capital letter in Thompson's 

 Nat. Hist, of Ireland, vol. iv.j p. 90.) 



Trichiurus lepturiis. — Mr. More tells me that the first Irish 

 specimen was recorded by the late Dr. A. Leith Adams from 

 Kinsale, county of Cork, in the Field for January 28, 1871. In 

 the Dublin Nat. Hist. Proc , vol. vi,, p. 68, Andrews also gives the 

 date as January, 1871 ; and in Miss Cusack's Kerry the record 

 is given, "five specimens obtained in Brandon and Tralee Bays 

 (Dr. Bustead)." 



[05s. — Lepidopus caudatus. — Ball, in the Nat. Hist. Revieiv, 

 vol. ii., p. 45, gives it as a " probable occurrence " : only a head 

 was examined. Couch mentions, no doubt, the same example. 

 For the present it can scarcely be included in the Irish list.] 



Oobius ruthensparri. — Thompson (p. 116) records the example 

 taken from the stomach of a tern. It is remarkable that I never 

 obtained a goby of any species at Portrush. 



Qobius niger. — Mr. More is of opinion that Thompson's Tory 

 Island specimens belong to this form, not to G.paganellus,io which 

 latter all the other localities are to be assigned. 



Gallionymus lyra. — I have taken the male at Bray, county of 

 Wicklow (where they are called "sandfish"), on a line set for 



