Clare Island Survey — Amphipoda. 42 21 



Caprella aeanthifera Leach. 



Blacksod Bay, six. 5 miles N.W. by W. of Glare Island light, 29 faths., 

 one. J mile E.S.B. of Clare Island, 7 faths., one. Ballinakill and Bonn 

 Harbours, young specimens frequent in surface tow-nettings at night. 



Previous Irish Records : — Valentia and Dalkey (Walker) ; Springvale, Co. 

 Down (Bate and Westwood) ; Ardbear Bay (Brady and Bobertson). 



Distribution : — North Atlantic from Norway to the Azores, Mediterranean. 



AMPHIPODA HYPERIIDEA. 



Family HYPERIIDAE. 



Hyperia galba (Montagu). 



Clare Island Harbour, one. Fahy Bay, Ballinakill Harbour, from Pelagia 

 perla, abundant in the year 1901. 



Hyperoche tauriformis (Bate and Westwood). 



Open sea between Bonn and the mainland, on six occasions, all in the 

 autumn of three different years. On one occasion associated with Bolina. 

 An oceanic species with an autumnal inshore migration. 



Parathemisto oblivia (Kroyer). 



Common in open sea tow-nettings throughout the area, especially in the 

 autumn. 



Euthemisto compressa (Goes). 



The most abundant Hyperid in the area. Met with at all times of the 

 year, sometimes in great numbers. 



Family LYCAEIDAE. 



Tryphaena malmi Boeck. 



Six specimens taken from the stomach of a spur dog-fish, Acanthias mdgaris 

 captured in mackerel nets drifting 7 miles W. by S. of Beetle Head, Clare 

 Island. The dog-fish had, in all probability, previously swallowed a mackerel 

 which had been feeding, as is their custom, on planktonic organisms of which 

 the Hyperid formed a part. 



