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Table VI. — continued. 















Months. 











i. 



Outer Stations — 

 CO )i t vix xicd,. 



























Years. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



March. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



July. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. 



Dec. 



Total for t 

 and Sta 





1889, . 



1 

























1 





1890, . 









2 



1 







1 









2 



6 





1891, . 





2 









1 











2 





5 



VIII. 



1892, . 



2 



2 



2 





1 



1 









1 





2 



11 





1893, . 



1 



- 



~ 



1 



1 





- 



- 



- 



1 



- 



2 



6 





1894, . 



1 



1 





1 



















3 





1895, . 





1 



- 



1 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



- 



2 



4 



Totals for the Months, .... 



5 



6 



2 



5 



3 



2 





1 





2 



2 



8 



36 





1889, . 



1 





















1 





2 





1890, . 









1 









1 











2 





1891, . 





2 





1 



1 













1 





5 



IX. 



1892, . 



2 



2 



2 



1 



1 





1 







1 





2 



12 





1893, . 









1 













2 





2 



5 





1894, . 





1 























1 





1895, . 





1 





















1 



2 





3 



6 



2 



4 



2 





1 



1 





3 



2 



5 



29 



The Table shows that the total number of records for Stations I., III., 

 v., and VIII. is nearly the same ; and it is of interest to note that Stations 

 IV. and IX., which are also nearly equal but show a smaller number of 

 records than the others, might have been expected to have yielded 

 very different results, as the first is an inshore station, while the other is 

 the farthest seaward of all the Forth stations, being situated considerably 

 east of the May Island. Another point of interest is, that besides the 

 comparative absence of these Amphipods during the summer months there 

 is evidence of a somewhat remarkable increase of those Crustaceans in the 

 Forth in 1891 and 1892 compared with other years. With reference to 

 the remarkable increase in the number of Parathemisto in the Forth 

 during these two years, it is specially worthy of note that in February 

 1892 an immense shoal of Euthemisto compressa — a species closely allied 

 to Parathemisto in structure and habits — was observed off the Yorkshire 

 coast. So great in number were they that the sea was described as 

 " literally alive with them," and it is stated that " heaps " of them "were 

 afterwards washed ashore by sea-winds, and afforded a feast for starlings 

 and other frequenters of the tidal line." Some of these Euthemisto found 

 their way into the Forth estuary, and are mentioned among the tow-net 

 records for that year. They were first observed in the Forth in February, 



* T. H. Nelson in ' Naturalist ' ior May 1392. 



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