of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 224, 
LENGTH OF THE 
CONTENTS OF THE STOMACH. 
FIsuH. 
20:0 centi- The contents of the stomach consisted entirely of the remains 
metres. of brittle starfishes (? Amphiwra) and a small quantity of 
mucus. 
20D ., This stomach contained nothing that could be identified. 
BO 55 The only organisms observed in this stomach were a single 
Parathemtsto oblivia and anda Metopa, the species of which 
is doubtful. 
a Five Parathemisto oblivia, a Metopa (sp. ?) and some Annelid 
remains. 
A. 5, Nothing that could be identified was observed in this stomach. 
ao yy Five Parathemisto oblivia and some mucus. 
2G ss The remains of brittle starfishes (probably Amphiwra) were the 
only objects that could be determined. 
ZO 5 This stomach contained nothing that could be distinguished. 
Zc)... The objects observed in this stomach were a Philine, probably 
P. nitida, but the shell had become too much digested for 
identification, and the remains of a few Cheetopod Annelids. 
a Two Parapleustes latipes (M. Sacs) aud fragments of another 
species of Amphipod. 
25-0) 45 One Parapleustes latipes, a minute (young) Astropecten irregu- 
laris, and the remains of small Chetopod Annelids. 
| Four specimens of Parathemisto oblivia were the only organisms 
that could be determined in this stomach. 
24-0 f In this stomach there was nothing that could be identified. 
Hight smaller Argentines captured on the Great Fisher Bank in June 
1902 were also examined. They measured from 17 to 20 centimetres in 
length; the food in the stomachs of three specimens was too much 
decomposed for identification, two others contained fragments of Annelids, 
and three the remains of small Crustacea—the only form identified being 
a young Pandalus. 
Argentina stlus (Ascanius). 
Two specimens of the Greater Argentine—one from the Fisher Bank, 
the other from about 57 miles north-west of the Outer Skerries, and 
captured in April and June 1902, were examined ; they each measured 
about thirteen inches from the base of the tail to the anterior extremity. 
The only organisms in the stomach of the one from Fisher Bank, perfect 
enough to be identified, were a number of Calanus, while the food 
observed in the stomach of the other consisted chiefly of the remains of 
Nyctephanes. 
Raia circularis, Couch. 
The stomach of a Cuckoo Ray captured at Station VI., Firth of Clyde, 
on October 25th, 1901, and sent to the Laboratory from the s,s. 
“ Garland,” was examined on January 16th, 1902, and the following 
Crustaceans, etc., were observed in it:—Remains of one or two Hyas 
coarctatus, fragments of Stenorhynchus; a whole specimen of Corystes 
cassivelaunus; twenty-two specimens of Spirontocaris pusiolus; seven 
specimens of Pandalina brevirostris, one Virbius varians ; nine specimens 
of Ampelisca spinipes; fragments of Amphidotus sp., a small Solen sp., 
and a small Butterfish, Pholis Gunnellus ; there were also a few specimens 
of the Annelid species, Ammotrypane aulogoster, and fragments of one or 
two other forms that could not be identified. The size of this specimen 
of Rata circularis was not stated. Another specimen of the same kind of 
Ray captured in the North Sea and examined on March 14th had some 
remains of round-fishes in its stomach, but they were too much digested 
for identification ; this specimen measured seventeen-and-a-half inches 
across the pectoral fins. 
