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same torm have been obtained. They are usually found in bottom tow- 
net gatherings from the deeper parts of the Clyde. It now appears that 
these Clyde specimens do not belong to Sars’ Hpimeria tuberculata, but 
are a deep-sea variety of Hpimeria cornigera. ‘They seem to form a con- 
necting link between the two species named, and to belong nearly as 
much to the one as to the other. It is a form which is in some respects as 
handsome as typical specimens of either species, both in size and 
coloration. 
EUSIRiD#. 
Specimens of Hustrus longipes, Boeck, have been occasionally observed 
during the year in bottom tow-net gatherings both from the Clyde and 
Loch Fyne, but few of the specimens appeared to be mature. 
GAMMARIDA, 
Mera othonis (M.-Edw), Chetrocrates intermedius, G. O. Sars, and 
Lilljeborgia kinahani (Spence Bate) have all been obtained in material 
dredged at Tarbert Bank, Loch Fyne, at a depth of 15 to 17 fathoms. 
Megaluropus agilis was captured in a tow-net gathering from the vicinity 
of Sanda Island, Clyde, collected September 5th, 1899. 
PHOTID-. 
Leptochirus pilosus.—A few specimens of this species were recently 
obtained in material from Tarbert Bank. In mostof the Clyde specimens 
I have seen, some of which were females with ova, the secondary branches 
of the antennules are only two-jointed, the end joint being quite small. 
Another species, Microprotopus maculatus, Norman, was obtained in a 
bottom tow-net gathering, recently examined, collected in Aberdeen Bay 
in May 1898. 
PODOCERIDA. 
Of species belonging to this group the following may be mentioned :— 
L[schyrocerus minutus, which was obtained in the same gathering as that 
in which the Microprotopus referred to above, was observed. Hrichthonius 
abditus occurred in a bottom tow-net gathering from 28 fathoms collected 
in the vicinity of Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde, October 10th, 1899. 
CAPRELLIDA, 
Protella phasma (Mont.) is not very rare at Tarbert Bank; Loch Fyne. 
There are few hauls with the dredge taken here in which it does not occur. 
Caprelia linearis (Linn.) was obtained at Inverneil Bay, Loch Fyne, by 
Mr, F. G. Pearcey in November 1899. Males and females of the same 
ee have also been captured by the fishery steamer in the Morays 
irth. 
Caprella septentrionalis, Kréyer.—One specimen of this somewhat rare 
species was captured in the Cromarty Firth on June 6th, and another on 
November 23rd, 1898. I am not aware of any previous record of this 
species for the Hast Coast of Scotland. 
IgoPoDA. 
There are few isopods to record. A considerable number of the 
chelifera have been observed during the year, but most of the species to 
which they belong have already been recorded. A few, however, require 
further study. 
