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difficult to catch organisms in the act of securing or 

 swallowing food. Consequently the record we give in 

 fig. 5 may be of interest. This is no accidental case of 

 entanglement, but shows a Ctenophore drawing the 

 Mysid into its widely-open alimentary canal. 



Pig. 5. — Ctenophore caught swallowing a Mysid. 



[Photo, by A. Scott. 



Probably both Ctenophores and Medusae are 

 responsible for a considerable amount of destruction of 

 young fish and Crustaceans during the year. 



Fish Eggs. 



On account of the special importance of the fish eggs 

 and larvae of the plankton, from a Fisheries point of 

 view, we have removed this section from the present more 

 general paper, and the matter will be treated by 

 Mr. Scott in a separate paper to follow. 



We shall simply state here for the sake of continuity 

 with former reports that : — 



Rockling eggs were present from the end of January 

 to the end of September, and the maximum was again 

 in March, with an average of 85 per haul. 



