of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 249 



Cletodes linearis, Glaus. 



This was contained in a gathering of Clyde Crustacea dredged between 

 Sanda and Bennan Head on November 3rd, 1896, but only recently 

 examined. The species seems to be rare in the British seas. 



Cletodes monensis, I. C. Thompson. 



This somewhat curious species was first made known to science by Mr. 

 I. C. Thompson, of Liverpool, in 1 893.* Some time afterwards, but also in 

 the same year,t I recorded its occurrence in the Moray Firth, where, 

 along with some other rare Crustaceans, it had been obtained by washing- 

 lumps of Filograna implexa, which had been brought up in the net of the 

 shrimp-trawl from a depth of about 40 fathoms, about five to seven miles to 

 the northward of Rosehearty. On the present occasion I have again to record 

 Cletodes monensis from the Moray Firth, but this time at about thirteen or 

 fourteen miles north-east of Buckie ; it occurred along with some other 

 interesting Crustaceans in a gathering collected by tow-net which had 

 touched bottom at 50 to 55 fathoms, November 3rd, 1900. (This gathering 

 was from the steam trawler " St. Andrew.") I have also to record the 

 same interesting species from the head of Loch Eil (at the upper end of 

 of Loch Linnhe), where it was dredged by the "Garland" in 8 to 10 

 fathoms on April 3rd last year. This is the first time Cletodes monensis 

 has been recorded from the West of Scotland. 



Cletodes hirsatipes, T. Scott. 



This species was described in Part III. of the Fifteenth Annual 

 Report (1897), from Clyde specimens. I have now to note its occurrence 

 in the Moray Firth in some dredged material collected off Nairn in 1898, 

 but only recently examined. One peculiarity by which this species may 

 be distinguished is the character of the fifth thoracic feet, the secondary 

 joints of which are lamelliform, and of a narrow-oblong outline ; their 

 outer edges are fringed with a dense border of short hairs, but this fringe 

 is frequently so coated with mud that it becomes necessary to clean it ere 

 it can be clearly made out. 



Cletodes perplexa, T. Scott. 



This is a small species, bnt of so marked a character as to be readily 

 distinguished without dissection ; it was described in 1899 in Part III. 

 of the Seventeenth Annual Report from specimens dredged by the Fishery 

 steamer " Garland " at Smith Bank, Moray Firth. I have now to record 

 the species from the head of Loch Eil ; it occurred in the same gathering 

 in which Cletodes monensis was obtained. It was collected on April 3rd, 

 1900. 



Cletodes irrasa, T. and A. Scott. 



This appears to be a somewhat rare species in the Copepod fauna of 

 Scotland, and I have obtained it in only one or two localities ; it was 

 described from specimens obtained near the Bass Rock, Filth of Forth, in 

 1893. It has more recently been obtained in the Clyde, and I have now 



* Revised Report on the Copepodaof Liverpool Bay (Trans. IS pool. Biol. Soc, vol. vii., 

 1893), p. 26, PI. XXXIV. 



f Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (6), vol. xii., p. 243 (Oct. 1893). (Cletodes monensis was 

 here by a slip recorded as Laophonte monensis, but the error was rectified in a paper 

 published in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, in the following February.) 



