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Parartotrogus richardi, T. and A. Scott. 
1893. Parartotrogus richardi, T. and A. Scott, Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xl., p. 210, Pl. VII. 
This curious little species has not before been observed in the Clyde 
area. It isa form that is readily missed, and may therefore be more 
widely distributed than at present it appears to be. In Scotland it has 
only hitherto been observed in the Firth of Forth, but it has also been 
found in the vicinity of Naples by Dr. W. Giesbrecht. 
AMPHIPODA. 
A few of the amphipods observed in the tow-net and other gatherings 
sent from the Fishery steamer ‘‘ Garland” may now be noticed. Only the 
rarer forms are recorded here. 
HYPERIID. 
Hyperia galba, Parathemisto (°) obiivia, and Hyperoche tauriformis 
have been occasionally observed in the tow-net gatherings sent from the 
Ciyde and Loch Fyne. These may still be reckoned as comparatively 
rare amphipods in the Clyde area. Their scarcity here its in somewhat 
marked contrast to the frequency of the species on the East Coast. 
PoNTOPOREIID. 
Urothoé marina has been obtained at Tarbert Bank, Loch Fyne, while 
Aryissa hamatipes (Norman) has been observed in tow-net gatherings 
collected both in Loch Fyne and in the seaward portion of the Clyde 
estuary. Argissa is sometimes frequent in under surface tow-net 
gatherings from the Clyde. The somewhat remarkable difference in the 
dorsal aspect of the urosome in the male aud female is an interesting 
feature of this species. Arvgzssa was also obtained in a tow-net gathering ~ 
collected in Aberdeen Bay in May 1898. 
AMPHILOCHIDA, 
A number of species belonging to this group have been observed in the 
gathering of tow-netted and dredged material sent from the “Garland ” 
during the past year. One of these appears to be identical with a form 
discovered a few year's ago in the Moray Firth. This form was described 
in the “ Annals and Magazine of Natural History ” * under the name of 
(?) Cyproidia brevirostris, T. and A. Scott; it is a very small amphipod, 
scarcely reaching to two millimetres in length ; the Clyde specimens, which 
are of a somewhat chocolate-vbrown colour are easily overlooked. 
Cyproidia brevirostris comes very near Cyproidia danmoniensis, Stebbing. 
Stegoplax longirostris, G. O. Sars, 1s also another closely allied form. 
A few specimens of Cyproidia brevirostris were cbtained in some dredged 
material from Tarbert Bank, Loch Fyne—a rocky bank which rises to 
within 15 or 17 fathoms of the surface, while all around the water is 
deep. This amphipod has not before been recorded from the Clyde area. 
EPIMERIDA. 
Epimeria cornigera (Fabricius), var. In Part III. of the Fifteenth 
Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland (1897), p. 169, I 
recorded from the Clyde a specimen of what appeared to be Hpimerza 
tuberculata, G. O. Sars; and since then a few more specimens of the 
* Ser. 6, vol. xii., p. 244, Pi, XIII. (1898). 
