of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



224 



Length of the 

 Fish. 



20-0 centi- 

 metres. 



20-5 „ 

 20-5 „ 



20-5 



20-5 

 21*0 

 21-0 



21-0 

 21-0 



21 

 23-0 

 24-0 

 24-0 



Contents of the Stomach. 



The contents of the stomach consisted entirely of the remains 

 of brittle starfishes ( ? Amphiura) and a small quantity of 

 mucus. 



This stomach contained nothing that could be identified. 



The only organisms observed in this stomach were a single 

 Parathemtsto oblivia and and a Metopa, the species of which 

 is doubtful. 



Five Parathemisto oblivia, a Metopa (sp. ? ) and some Annelid 

 remains. 



Nothing that could be identified was observed in this stomach. 



Five Parathemisto oblivia and some mucus. 



The remains of brittle starfishes (probably Amphiura) were the 

 only objects that could be determined. 



This stomach contained nothing that could be distinguished. 



The objects observed in this stomach were a Philine, probably 

 P. nitida, but the shell had become too much digested for 

 identification, and the remains of a few Chsetopod Annelids. 



Two Parapleustes latipes (M. Sacs) and fragments of another 

 species of Amphipod. 



One Parapleustes latipes, a minute (young) Astropecten irregu- 

 laris, and the remains of small Chsetopod Annelids. 



Four specimens of Parathemisto oblivia were the only organisms 

 that could be determined in this stomach. 



In this stomach there was nothing that could be identified. 



Eight smaller Argentines captured on the Great Fisher Bank in June 

 1902 were also examined. They measured from 17 to 20 centimetres in 

 length ; the food in the stomachs of three specimens was too much 

 decomposed for identification, two others contained fragments of Annelids, 

 and three the remains of small Crustacea — the only form identified being 

 a young Pandalus. 



Argentina silus (Ascanius). 



Two specimens of the Greater Argentine — one from the Fisher Bank, 

 the other from about 57 miles north-west of the Outer Skerries, and 

 captured in April and June 1902, were examined; they each measured 

 about thirteen inches from the base of the tail to the anterior extremity. 

 The only organisms in the stomach of the one from Fisher Bank, perfect 

 enough to be identified, were a number of Calanus, while the food 

 observed in the stomach of the other consisted chiefly of the remains of 

 Nyctiphanes. 



Raia circularise Couch. 



The stomach of a Cuckoo Ray captured at Station VI., Firth of Clyde, 

 on October 25th, 1901, and sent to the Laboratory from the s.s. 

 "Garland," was examined on January 16th, 1902, and the following 

 Crustaceans, etc., were observed in it -.—Remains of one or two Hyas 

 coarctatus, fragments of Stenorhynchus ; a whole specimen of Corystes 

 cassivelaunus ; twenty- two specimens of Spirontocaris pusiolus ; seven 

 specimens of Pandalina brevirostris, one Virbius varians; nine specimens 

 of Ampelisca spinipes; fragments of Amphidotus sp., a small Solen sp., 

 and a small Butterfish, Pholis Gunnellus ; there were also a few specimens 

 of the Annelid species, Ammotrypane aulogoster, and fragments of one or 

 two other forms that could not be identified. The size of this specimen 

 of Raia circularis was not stated. Another specimen of the same kind of 

 Ray captured in the North Sea and examined on March 14th had some 

 remains of round-fishes in its stomach, but they were too much digested 

 for identification; this specimen measured seventeen-and-a-half inches 

 across the pectoral fins. 



