of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 263 



Dexaminid^e. 

 Dexamine t'fiea, Boeck. 



This comparatively small species was captured in Bay of Nigg, near 

 Aberdeen, and also near Muckle Ferry, Dornoch Firth. The gathering 

 from Muckle Ferry was collected in May, and that from Bay of Nigg in 

 July, 1900. 



Tritoeta gibhosa (Bate). 



This curious little species was dredged by the il Garland " in Loch 

 Etive, near Abbot's Island, in 9 fathoms, on March 30th, 1900. 



Guernia coalita (Norman). 



This curious little species was obtained in a gathering collected by the 

 " St. Andrew " about fifty miles soufch-south-east of Fair Island, in about 

 85 fathoms, on October 16th, 1900. The species was described by the 

 Rev. A. M. Norman in 1868 from specimens collected in the surface-net 

 at Lerwick, Shetland, by the late Dr. Robertson of Millport.* The same 

 species has been obtained at considerable depths in the Firth of Forth,t 

 iu the Firth of Clyde,:}: and in the Irish Sea,** and it is interesting to 

 note that, though its distribution is thus apparently extensive, it is one of 

 the few British species of Amphipoda that have not yet been recorded 

 from Norway. 



MBLPHIDIPPIDiE. 



Melphidippella macera (Norman). 



Melphidippa and Melphidippella have beeu removed by Stebbing from 

 the Gammaridce into a new family, MelpMdippidai. The brick-red 

 colour of the Melphidippella makes it a fairly conspicuous object even in 

 a crowded gathering. The species was found in the gatherings collected 

 eastward of Fair Island, and also off Aberdeen in October, 1900, but 

 although of frequent occurrence in the gatherings from both places, 

 scarcely a single specimen was undamaged, owing to the appendages 

 being so brittle. 



Gammarid^. 



Amathilla homari (Fabricius). 



A moderately large female specimen was found in the stomach of a 

 Cod captured in the Bay of Nigg in June, 1900; young specimens were 

 also taken in the Bay in July by means of a tow-net worked from a 

 rowing-boat. 



Gammarus duebeui, Lilljeborg. 



This Gammarus is moderately frequent in brackish-water pools at the 

 mouth of the River Don near Aberdeen. 



* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), vol. ii„ p. 418 (1868) ; Brit. Assoc. Rept. for 1868 

 (pub. 1869), p. 280. 



f Eighth Annual Report Fishery Board for Scotland, Part III., p. 326. 



X Seventeenth Ann. Report Fishery Board for Scotland, Part III., p. 265 (1899). 



** A. O. Walker, Revision of the Amphipoda of the L.M.B.C. District {Trans. L'pool, 

 Biol. Soc, vol. ix. (1895), p. 307. 

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