of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 267 



has been recorded for the British Islands by Spence Bate under the name 

 of Cyrtophium tuberculatum. 



Dulichia porrecta (Bate). 



This easily distinguished species was obtained in a gathering collected 

 by the "Garland " at Muckle Ferry, Dornoch Firth 3 May 19th, and also 

 in a gathering collected by the steam trawler " St. Andrew " fifty miles 

 south-south-east of Fair Island, October 16tb, 1900. 



Dulichia monacantha, Metzger. 



This Dulichia was recorded for the first time as a British species in 

 the "Annals of Scottish Natural History" for January, 1898, p. 55, and 

 afterwards in the Sixteenth Annual Beport of the Fishery Board for 

 Scotland (1898), Part III., p. 277. The specimens, which were from the 

 Clyde, comprised a male possessing the well-developed horn-like processes 

 of the first coxal plates and one or two doubtful females. During the 

 recent investigations carried out in the North Sea by the steam trawler 

 "St. Andrew " numbers of small fish were captured, some of which were 

 handed over to me for examination in order to ascertain what they had 

 been feeding on ; among these were a number of Haddocks about four to 

 five inches in length, captured about sixty-five miles south-east by east of 

 Sumburgh Head, Shetland, on September 4th, and it was interesting to find, 

 in nearly all the stomachs examined, specimens of Dulichia monacantha ; 

 in several instances the stomachs of the young Haddocks were crowded 

 with nothing else ; both males and females of the Amphipod occurred, but 

 the males appeared to be the most numerous, and unfortunately almost 

 all of them had been more or less damaged by the teeth of the fish. 

 Fragments of Dulichia porrecta w T ere also observed, and also of Aceros 

 phyllonyx, and a few other forms, but these appeared to be rare. Dulichia 

 monacantha occurred also in a bottom tow-net slathering collected about 

 fifty miles south-east of Fair Island on October 19th (1900). 



Caprellid^e. 



Phtisica marina, Slabber. 



This species was not uncommon in gatherings collected to the east of 

 Fair Island, October 19th, 1900. 



Protella phasma (Mont.). 



This was occasionally obtained in gatherings collected off Aberdeen in 

 October and November last by the Fishery steamer " Garland." 



Caprella (1) sepientrionalis, Kroyer. 



The Caprellas which I have ascribed to Kroyer's C. septentrionalis were 

 on several occasions obtained in the stomachs of Pollack, Gadus pollachius, 

 captured in the salmon-fishers' nets in the Bay of Nigg, but rarely in the 

 stomach of the Cod ; they were observed in the stomachs of these fishes 

 during April and May last year, and I have no notes of their occurrence 

 during any of the other months. An immense number of Caprellas were 

 obtained in the stomach of a half -grown Pollack captured on April 20th ; 

 males and females appeared to be equally numerous, the stomach was 

 packed with them. Among other things observed in this stomach were 

 one or two Idotea pelaglca and fragments of two Amathilla liomari. 



