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Metridia lucens, Boeck. 
This species was taken with the surface tow-net in Lerwick Bay on 
October 15th, 1900. It was also obtained in a tow-net gathering 
collected about fifty miles south-east of the Fair Is!and on the 19th of 
the same month. MM. lucens is not only smaller than Metridia longa 
(Lubbock), but the structure of the fifth feet is different. 
Paramisophria cluthe, 'T. Scott. 
P. cluthe, which was described in Part III. of the Fifteenth Annual 
Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, has only hitherto been recorded 
for Loch Fyne, Firth of Clyde ; I have now to record the species from the 
Cromarty Firth. lt occurred in some material collected there on January 
17th, 1900, and forwarded from the Fishery steamer “Garland” to the 
Laboratory at Bay of Nigg. 
CANDACIIDZ. 
Candacia pectinata, G. 8. Brady. 
This species was observed during the past year not only in tow-net 
gatherings from the Clyde and the Moray Firth, but also in one or two 
gatherings collected in October to the eastward of the Fair Island, between 
Orkney and Shetland, and also in Lerwick Bay. The distribution of 
C. pectinata would thus seem to be co-extensive with the British Islands. 
PONTELLIDA. 
Anomalocera patersoni, Templeton. 
A number of specimens of this fine species occurred in one of the tow- 
net gatherings collected to the eastward of the Fair Island on October 
19th. These specimens appeared to be even more highly coloured than 
those observed in the Clyde and the Moray Firth. 
Acartia discaudata, Giesbrecht. 
The only Scottish locality where, till recently, I have observed 
Acartia discaudata is the Firth of Forth, but I have now to record it 
from other two stations, from both of which specimens have been sent to 
the Laboratory at Bay of Nigg from the “Garland.” At one of these 
stations—viz., Loch Hil, at the head of Loch Linnhe—specimens of 
A. discaudata were dredged in 10 to 30 fathoms on March 4th, 1900 ; 
while at the other—viz., Dornoch Firth, near Muckle Ferry—the species 
was moderately common in gatherings collected with the surface tow-net 
between the 16th and 17th of May. 
Acartia bifilosa, Giesbrecht. 
A second species of Acartia—A. bifilosa—was obtained in a tow-net 
gathering collected in Lerwick Harbour on October 15th, 1900, by 
the steam trawler ‘‘St. Andrew.” It may be mentioned that another 
species of Acartia—A. clausii, Giesbrecht—was obtained during the 
investigations in which the ‘St. Andrew” was engaged. It was collected 
about seven miles off shore between Lerwick and Sumburgh Head on 
October the 16th, by passing the water from the donkey-pump through 
a tow-net. Acartia clausit occurred also in tow-net gatherings collected 
to the eastward of the Fair Island on the 19th of the same month. 
