SEA FISHERIES LABORATORY. 159 



Depth 23 fathoms, bottom sand, shells, and stones. 



The specimens agree in all points with the figure and 

 description given by the late George Brook in the Scottish 

 Fishery Board's Fourth Annual Keport. The figure given 

 in Day's British Fishes does not seem to be very charac- 

 teristic. 



One of the fish was a mature female and measured Sc- 

 inches in length, the unfertilised ova measured 1*078 

 millimeters and the oil globule '1848 millimeter. 



Cumacea. 



Petalosarsia declivis (G-. 0. Sars). 



Petalomera declivis, T. Scott, Eleventh Annual Eep. 

 Fishery Board for Scot., Pt. III., p. 215, pi. v., fig. 43. 



A few specimens of this Cumacean were obtained among 

 bottom tow-net material collected 14 miles N. by W. from 

 Liverpool N.W. Light Vessel. The tow-net had touched 

 the bottom and brought up a small quantity of sandy 

 mud which was carefully washed through a muslin sieve 

 and on examining the contents of the sieve this species 

 was found, and also a copepod which is referred to later 

 on. This species had not previously been recorded for 

 the west coast of Britain. 



Copepoda. 



Longipedia minor, T. and A. Scott. 



Longipedia coronata, var. minor, T. and A. Scott. 

 Eleventh Annual Report, Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 Part III, p. 200, pi. ii., figs. 14—20. 

 In rock-pools on Hilbre Island, collected by hand net, 

 not common. This is one of the copepods we sometimes 

 find in the stomachs of young fish from the district. 

 Brady a minor, T. and A. Scott. 



Several specimens of this new Bradya were obtained 

 in the same gathering with the last. 



