394 Scientific Proceedings, Royal Dublin Society. 



Mr. Green observed such a sheet off Queenstown harbour, and they have been 

 observed in a few instances off the east coast of Scotland. I have heard of the occur- 

 rence of what could only be the egg-mass of this fish in the salmon stake-nets at the 

 mouth of the Forth in June. They were regarded by the fishermen as jelly-fish of a 

 probably dangerous nature, and left until the tide washed them away.^ 



FRECKLED GOBY — Gobiiis minutus. 



Some males and females from the tidal pools of Lough Atalia were nearly ripe on 

 9th May. On the same date eggs, probably belonging to this species, were found 

 attached to the " root" of a Laminaria,^ brought in by the kelp boats. This species 

 appears to spawn in May and June, and probably in July. 



Aphia pelliioida. 



A few males and females were in breeding condition, and ripe, or nearly so, in 

 Killybegs harbour in June. 



Crystallogohius nilssonii. 



Some males and females were in a condition similar to the above in August. (For 

 an account of the habits and breeding of these two species see Dap (" British Fishes," 

 vol. i.). 



DB.AGONET — OalUonymus lyra. 



Some females examined in April were spent. The pelagic eggs occurred in the 

 tow-nets from March to June, most abundantly in April. 



LESSER WEEVEE — TracUnus vipera. 



The pelagic eggs were abundant in the tow-nets in the latter part of June and the 

 beginning of July, always rather near land. A female was nearly ripe in May, off the 

 Donegal coast. According to Day, spawning takes place in Spring. Fulton obtaiaed 

 ripe females from Danbar at the end of June. 



DOUBLE-SPOTTED SUCKER — Lepadogaster Umaculatus. 



A specimen was found guarding its eggs in a whelk shell at 7 fathoms in Clifden 

 Harbour in June [vide " Scientific Transactions," vol. iv. s. 3, 1891, Pt. vii.). Other 

 eggs were found on a shell of a Gaper (Mya) in Birturbuy Bay, in the same month. 



1 The spawn has been taken several times during last year, in February, March, 

 and May, by officials of the Scotch Fishery Board, and is described by Fulton and by 

 Prince in the 9th Ann. Eep. S. F. B., 1891. 



^i. bulbosa. 



