of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 251 



bottom, such as haddock and cod, appear to have no partiality for any 

 particular species, but the stomachs of herring, especially of those taken 

 on the East Coast, are found occasionally filled with species of Hyperiidse 

 to the exclusion of every tiling else, Hyperia galba and Parathemisto 

 oblivia being the two generally observed. Of course the Hyperiidae are 

 exclusively pelagic in their habits, which may partly account for this, but 

 the young and half-grown specimens of other species which are frequently 

 met with in material collected with the surface-net have very seldom been 

 noticed in herrings' stomachs, so that it is probable the species of Hyperiidae 

 are preferred by them. 



ISOPODA. 



The arrangement followed here is that adopted in Bate and West wood's 

 Monograph of British Sessile-eyed Crustacea; the nomenclature that of 

 Part iii. of Museum Normanianum. 



Tan aire. 

 Tanais vittatus (Rathke). 



Tanais vittatus, B. & W., Brit, Sess.-eyed Crust., vol. ii. p. 125 

 1863. May Island and Dunbar; about half-tide, living 

 chiefly among mussels (Henderson). 

 Pseudotanais forcipatus (Lilljeborg). 



Pseudotanais forcipatus, Norman, Mus. Nor., pt. iii. p. 11, 1886. 

 Paratanais forcipatus, B. & W., Brit. Sess.-eyed Crust., vol. ii. 

 p. 138, 1863. Gulland Bay, frequent among dredged material; 

 and from deep water west off Inchkeith (S.F.B.). 



BOPYKICE. 



Phryxus abdominalis (Kroyer). 



Phryxus abdominalis, B. & "W., Brit. Sess.-eyed Crust., vol. ii. 

 p. 234, 1863. Off St Abb's Head, 40 fathoms (Metzger; 

 L. & H.). 

 Athelges paguri (Kathke). 



Athelges paguri, Norman, Mus. Nor., pt. iii. p. 13, 1886. 

 Phryxus paguri, B. & W., Brit. Sess.-eyed Crust., 1863. Firth of 

 Forth (Dr Anderson).* On Pagurus Bernhardus, dredged 

 in Gulland Bay (S.F.B.). 

 Liriopsis balani, Bate. 



Liriope balani, Bate, Brit. Assoc. Report, 1860, p. 225. 

 Cryptothiria balani, Bate, B. & W., Brit. Sess.-eyed Crust., vol. ii. 

 p. 267, 1863. Firth of Forth (H. Goodsir, as male of 

 Balanus balanoides, in Edin. New Phil. Journ., 1843 ; 

 B. & W.). 



JEgidm. 

 Eurydice pulchra, Leach. 



Eurydlce pidchra, B. & W., Brit. Sess.-eyed Crust., vol. ii. p. 310, 

 1863. Taken in surface-net, off Preston Island, a few miles 

 west of Queensferry; one specimen (28.11.87, S.F.B.). 



AsELLIDiE. 



Jcera albifrons (Mont). 



Jwra albifrons, B. & W., Brit. Sess.-eyed Crust., vol. ii. p. 317, 

 1863. Common at the May Island and Granton Quarry 

 (Henderson). 



* Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin. , vol. vii. 



