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Trochammina, sp., East Loch Tarbert. 



Lagena sulcata (W. and J.), East Loch Tarhart. 



„ IcBvis (Mont.), Lochfyne. 



„ gracillima (Sagz.), Loclifyne. 



„ globosa (Mont.), Lochfyne. 



„ striata (d'Orb.), Lochfyne. 



„ marginata (W. and J.), East Loch Tarbert. 



„ melo (d'Orb.), Lochfyne. 



„ squamosa (Mont.), East Loch Tarbert. 



'„ tea^/owa (Will.), Lochfyne. 



„ Jeffreysii (Brady), Lochfyne and East Loch Tarbert. 

 Nodosaria scalaris (Batsch.) Lochfyne, frequent. 

 PolymorpMna ladea (W. and J.), East Loch Tarbert. 



„ tubulosa (d'Orb.), Lochfyne. 



Dentalina commmiis (d'Orb.), Lochfyne. 

 Orhulina universa (d'Orb.), East Loch Tarbert. 

 Textularia sagittula (Defrance), East Loch Tarbert. 

 BuUmina marginata (d'Orb.), East Loch Tarbert. 

 DiscorUna rosacea (d'Orb.), East Loch Tarbert. 

 Truncatulina lohatula (Walker), East Loch Tarbert. 

 Rotalia Beccarii, L., East Loch Tarbert, common. 



„ nitida (Will.), East Loch Tarbert, rare. 

 Patellina corrugata (Will.), Lochfyne. 

 Polystomella crispa (L.), East Loch Tarbert, common. 



„ striato-jmnctata (F. and M.), East Loch Tarbert, common. 

 Nonionina asterizans (F. and M.), East Loch Tarbert, common. 



„ depressula (W. and J.), East Loch Tarbert, common. 

 Planorhulina Mediterranensis (d'Orb.), East Loch Tarbert, common. 



APPENDIX F.— No. XVIIL 



THE SPAWNING PEEIOD of the BRITISH FOOD-FISHES. 

 By Geoege Brook, F.L.S. 



The present list has been chiefly prepared for the information 

 of the various officers of the Board. A large amount of the infor- 

 mation has been taken from Day's British Fishes. Use has 

 also been made of the publications of the American and German 

 Fish Commissions, Costa's Fishes of the Bay of Naples, and 

 Schmidtlein's lists of the spawning period of the fishes and 

 other forms in the Bay of Naples, published in the Journal of 

 the Naples Zoological Station. The more detailed accounts given 

 for many of the commoner food-fishes have been supplied by 

 the Fishery officers of the various districts. In these there are 

 evidently many errors; for instance, it is manifestly impossible 

 for turbot to spawn in May, June, and July off Aberdeen, and 

 not until September and October off Peterhead ! However, 

 each officer has supplied the information asked for from the best 

 available sources, and it would be premature to attempt to decide 

 such important points on necessarily imperfect evidence. There 



