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ranging between that of the haddock and tl\e ordinary size of long roqgh 
dab, but probably this is due to mode of preparation. 
Station V. — Bottom, 19th March 1891, Post-larval Agonus, 5 mm. : 
larval Montagu's suckers, 3 mm. 
Station VI. — Bottom, 21st March 1891. Jlels, 65 mm.; larval sane]- 
eels, 5 to 7 mm. ; larval herrings, 10 mm. 
Station VI. — Surface, 23rd March 1891. A few eggs of plaice, 
swarms of eggs of rockling, eggs of dab, sprat, and long rough dab. 
Near Station II. —Surface, 30th March 1891. Eggs of plaice, had- 
dock, cod, bib, whiting, dab, flounder, long rough dab, and rockling. 
Off Musselburgh. — Bottom, 3rd April 1891. Post-larval Agoni and 
post-larval Montagu's suckers. 
Station IV. — Bottom, 4th April 1891. Post-larval Agoni and post- 
larval Montagu's suckers. 
South Bay. — Surface, 8th April 1891. Eggs of cod, haddock, bib, 
dab, long rough dab, and many of rockling. 
East of Portobello. — Surface, 10th April 1891. Numerous eggs 
resembling those of Motella, but about ='0285 in. or '7239 mm. These 
seemed to be a feature in this collection, and probably corresponded with 
those described on p. 2 {Motella tricirrata ?). A few eggs of cod, haddock 
sprat, and a single egg of long rough dab. 
Liston's Bank (East of Island of May). — Surface, 13th April 1891. 
A vast multitude of ova, including a few plaice, a considerable number of 
eggs with a large perivitelline space, and ranging from 1*2192 to P5240 
mm. in picric and spirit, which may have caused considerable variation in 
contraction ; many eggs of haddock, cod, poor cod 0), whiting, sprat (i), 
dab, and numerous rocklings as before. 
Liston's Bank. — Surface-net, 13tli April 1891. Large number of 
ova of cod, whiting, haddock, ling, rocklings as before, bib and gurnard. 
Also of flounder, dab, brill, long rough dab, and plaice. 
Liston's Bank. — Tow-net (I bottom), 13th April 1891. Yoang sand- 
eel, 15 mm. ; post-larval sand-eel, 9 mm. ; post-larval Cottus, 6 mm. 
Station VIL— Tow-net, 8 fathoms, 14th April 1891. Gunnels, 10 
mm. ; sand-eel, 6 mm. ; Montagu's sucker, 3 mm. 
Station VIII. — Surface, 14th April 1891. Vast numbers of the ova 
of cod, a few of haddock, a few of dab, long rough dab, and many of 
rockling. 
Station IX. — Tow-net, 10 fathoms, 14th April 1891. Young gunnels, 
8 and 10 mm. ; young sand-eels, 5 and 10 mm. ; post-larval Cottus, 
4 mm. 
Four Miles east of Island of May. — Surface-net, 11th May 1891. 
Ova of bib and sprat, rockling as before in great numbers, flounder, dab, 
plaice, and long rough dab. 
Four Miles east of Island of May. — 10 Fathom Tow-net, 11th May 
1891. Larval long rough dab (1), eyes lateral, 9 mm. Young sand-eels 
7 to 12 mm. Montagu's sucker, 3 mm.; larval rockling, 3 mm. ; larval like 
gunnel, 8 mm. ; larval pleuronectids, 4 to 8 mm. 
Four Miles east of Island of May. — Bottom-net, 11th May 1891. 
Young flounder, eyes lateral, 10 mm. ; young Montagu's sucker, 9 mm. ; 
young sand-eels 6 to 14 mm. 
Twelve to seventeen Miles south-east of Island of May. — Surface- 
net, 12th May 1891. A considerable number of ova, but their condition is 
unsatisfactory, apparently since they have been injured by the preserva- 
tive fluid. Cod, whiting, rockling os before, ling, sprat, gurnard, brill, 
dab, and one of plaice. 
Six to twelve Miles south-east of Island of May. — Surface-net, 
