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side, like the turbot. It may be stated that in St Andrews Bay two 

 left-handed specimens of the common, or white fluke, or fresh-water 

 flounder (Pleuronectes flesus), were observed. They were not merely 

 coloured on the ' wrong ' side, but the eyes, mouth, and fins were re- 

 versed, as in the turbot. These are the first of this abnormal form that 

 have been taken during the investigations carried on by the S.S. ' Garland.' 

 Both specimens have been preserved, and will be placed among the 

 Board's Collection of Fishes. 



Phycis blennoides (Brim.). 



Gadus blennoides, Briin., Ich. Mass., p. 24. 

 Phycis blennoides, Gmel., Linn. p. 1165. 



Greater Fork Beard, Couch., Fish. Brit. Isles, iii. pp. 125, 128, 

 pis. clxiii. clxiv. 



Phycis blennoides, Day, Brit. Fish., i. p. 303, pi. lxxxv. fig. 2 

 (1880-84). 



Habitat. — Off St Monance, one specimen taken with beam-trawl, 

 February 1889. There does not seem to be any previous record of the 

 occurrence of this species in the Firth of Forth. Mr Cornish observes 

 that the flesh of Phycis is extremely delicate, and superior to the 

 whiting. It has been recorded for St Andrews Bay, but does not appear 

 to be very common on the east coast. That so few fishes have been 

 added to those recorded by Dr Parnell proves the great care and thorough- 

 ness of his investigation, and a revision of his Fishes of the Firth of 

 Forth is only necessary because of the changes in the terminology that 

 have been made since he wrote his valuable monograph. 



Lumpenus lampetriformis, Walb. 



Lumpenus lampetriformis, Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1884, p. 445, 

 pi. xli. 



Habitat, — Eight specimens were taken with the shrimp-net when trawl- 

 jng a few miles east of Inchkeith on the 14th May 1889, and several 

 others a little outside the May a day or two afterwards. This species was 

 first found in British waters by Professor Macintosh, F.R.S., in Slay 1884, 

 since then by Mr Sirn of Aberdeen ; it has been known for a long time as 

 a Norwegian fish. Last year when examining the stomachs of cod trawled 

 in the Forth I noticed this fish on several occasions among the contents 

 of the stomachs, but the specimens being always more or less mutilated I 

 failed to recognise the species. 



Trachinus draco, Linne. 



Trachinus draco, Linne, Syts. Nat., i. p. 435. 



Greater Weever, Couch., Fish. Brit. Isles, ii. p. 43, pi. lxxiii. 

 Habitat. — One specimen taken with shrimp-net in ' Fluke Hole ' off 

 St Monance. 



CORRIGENDA. 



To Revised List of the Crustacea of the Firth of Forth in the Fishery 

 Board's Report for 1888 (p. 235) :— 



COPEPODA. 



Notodelphys agilis, Brady, should be 



Notolelphys cceridea, Thorell., Brady, Mon. Brit. Cop., vol. i. 

 p. 130, pi. xxvii., figs. 10-13 (1876). 



