of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 263 
DEXAMINIDA, 
Dexamine thea, Boeck, 
This comparatively small species was captured in Bay of Nigg, near 
Aberdeen, and also near Muckle Ferry, Dornoch Firth. The gathering 
from Muckle Ferr y was collected in May, and that from Bay of Nigg in 
July, 1900. 
Triteta gibbosa (Bate). 
This curious little species was dredged by the “Garland” in Loch 
Ktive, near Abbot’s Island, in 9 fathoms, on March 30th, 1900. 
Guernia coalita (Norman), 
This curious little species was obtained in a gathering collected by the 
“St. Andrew ” about fifty miles south-south-east of Fair Island, in about 
85 fathoms, on October 16th, 1900. The species was described by the 
Rev. A. M. Norman in 1868 from specimens collected in the surface-net 
at Lerwick, Shetland, by the late Dr. Robertson of Millport.* The same 
species has been obtained at considerable depths in the Firth of Forth, 
in the Firth of Clyde,t and in the Irish Sea,** and it is interesting to 
note that, though its distribution is thus apparently extensive, it is one of 
the few British species of Amphipoda that have not yet been recorded 
from Norway. 
MELPHIDIPPIDZ. 
Melphidippella macera (Norman). 
Melphidippa and Melphidippella have been removed by Stebbing from 
the Gammuride into a new family, Melphidippide. The brick-red 
colour of the Melphidippella makes it a fairly conspicuous object even in 
a crowded gathering. The species was found in the gatherings collected 
eastward of Fair Island, and also off Aberdeen in October, 1900, but 
although of frequent occurrence in the gatherings from both places, 
scarcely a single specimen was undamaged, owing to the appendages 
being so brittle. 
GAMMARIDA. 
Amathilla homari (Fabricius). 
A moderately large female specimen was found in the stomach of a 
Cod captured in the Bay of Nigg in June, 1900; young specimens were 
also taken in the Bay in July by means of a tow-net worked from a 
rowing-boat. 
Gammarus duebem, Lilljeborg. 
This Gammarus is moderately frequent in brackish-water pools at the 
mouth of the River Don near Aberdeen. 
* Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), vol. ii,, p. 418 (1868) ; Brit. Assoc. Rept. for 1868 
(pub. 1869), p. 280. 
i, Kighth Me sial Report Fishery Board for Scotland, Part III., p. 326. 
- + Seventeenth Ann. Report Fishery Board for Scotland, Part IIT. , p- 265 (1899). 
** A, O. Walker, Revision of the Amphipoda of the L.M, B C. District (Trans, L Pash, 
Biol, Soc., vol, ix. (1895), p- 307. 
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