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Vil. NOTES ON RECENT GATHERINGS OF MICRO- 
CRUSTACEA FROM THE CLYDE AND THE MORAY 
FIRTH. By Tuomas Scort, F.L.S., bey Soc. Zool. de France. 
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(Plates X—XITI. ‘ 
In the following notes my remarks refer chiefly to the rarer forms that 
have been observed in gatherings of Microcrustacea submitted for 
examination during 1898. The gatherings examined have been collected 
in the Moray Firth and the Firth of Clyde, and therefore the notes refer 
chiefly to these localities. I am indebted to Mr. KF. G. Pearcey, 
naturalist on board the s.s. ‘‘Garland,” for most of the gatherings 
forwarded for examination. 
CopEPopDa. 
Paracalanus parvus (Claus). 
1863. Calanus parvus, Claus. Die frei-lebenden» Copopoden, 
p. 173, Pl. XXVL., figs. 10-14; Pl. XXVIL., figs. 1-4. 
This Copepod, which was observed in the Firth of Clyde for the first 
time in September 1897, has occurred in several of the tow-net gatherings 
collected during 1898, both at the surface and bottom. It was obtained 
at Stations IX, and XIII. in August, and at Stations VII. and VIII. in 
September. Station XIII. is one of the Upper Loch Fyne stations, and 
its occurrence there makes it an addition to the Loch Fyne fauna. It is 
a small species, and may therefore have been previously passed over as a 
young Calanus. It has also been observed in the Moray Firth and in 
the Firth of Forth. 
*Bradyidius armatus (Brady). 
1878. Pseudocalanus armatus, G. S. Brady, Mon. Brit. Copep., 
vol. i., p. 46 (non P. armatus, Boeck—see Giesbrecht, Zool. 
Anzeiger, 1897, p. 25). 
This species is referred to because its distribution appears to be 
somewhat restricted. Though not very plentiful, it is one of the more 
widely diffused of the Clyde Copepoda, and it has been known for 
many years as a Clyde species. It is usually obtained in gatherings 
collected with the bottom tow-net, and much less frequently in surface 
gatherings. Though the species has been recorded from the East Coast 
of Scotland, it seems to be of rare occurrence there. I do not find a 
single reference to it in any of the descriptions of tow-net gatherings 
collected on the Hast Coast during the past year. 
Hucheta norvegica, Boeck. 
-1864. Hucheta prestandree, Boeck, Overs. Norg. Kyster iagt. 
Copep., Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania, p. 236. 
1872, Hucheta norvegica, Boeck, Nye Slaegt. og Art. af Salt- 
vandscopep, Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania, p. 40. 
[ have no record of this species for the Moray Firth ; but it has, 
in previous years, been obtained in tow-net catherings from various 
* See ‘‘ Additional Notes’ at the end of this paper. 
