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SOME NOTES ON THE PELAGIC LIFE OCCURRING IN THE 



SEA NEAR FALMOUTH, WITH FAUNA NOTES OF THE 



DISTRICT. 



From January to September, 1893. 

 Bt RUPERT VALLENTIN. 



The remarks I have to offer relating to the Pelagic Life 

 occurring in the sea near Falmouth, for the last year, are of a 

 very fragmentary nature. This is partly due to the late Fishery 

 Exhibition held at Truro last July and August, and also to my 

 leaving early in September for Germany. 



My thanks are again due to Mr. Cunningham for some 

 valuable suggestions, to be noticed later ; and also to Mr. 

 Q-arstang for naming a specimen of Anemone of exceptional 

 interest. To Mr. A. F. Bealey, I am deeply indebted for his 

 kindness, in making a series of tow-net gatherings some miles 

 away from this port during the early part of the year. 



PBiiAGic Life 



January. During the early part of this month the surface 

 temperature of the sea was very low, being only 44-9 F. on the 

 2nd. A small number of each of the following forms were 

 observed in the surface-gathering made on that morning : — 

 Cyphonautes, Eurtepe gracilis, Oorycseus anglicus : three speci- 

 mens of Centropages typicus and six Appendicularia were also 

 secured. On the 10th, after gales of wind from the east and 

 south-east, the surface temperature fell to 44° F. The only 

 forms of interest noticed in the gathering, were numbers of 

 Corycseus anglicus with the frustules of a species of diatom 

 attached to the cuticle. In some instances these frustules were 

 so very abundant that one had extreme difficulty in viewing the 

 segments of the crustacean. On the 21st, a few specimens of 

 spinid larvse appeared in the gathering, for the first time, and 



