924 Horr & Beaumontr—Survey of Fishing-grounds, W. Coast of Ireland, 1890-91. 
Previous Trish Records.—Off S.W. of Ireland, 90 (and 1630) fathoms (A. M. N.™); 
off Co. Kerry, 40 fathoms (A. O. W.*). 
Distribution.—Kast of Shetland (A.M.N.*). 
Norway; Bay of Biscay; south of Cape of Good Hope (A. M. N.*): Medi- 
terranean (Caullery, Pruvot). 
Family.—_EUPHAUSIDZ. + 
Genus Nyctiphanes, G. O. Sars. 
Nyctiphanes norvegica (M. Sars). 
Survey.—Station 115, off the Skelligs, 62 to 52 fathoms, mud and sand. August 
20th, 1890. 
Station 165, 28 miles N.W. of Achill Head, 154 fathoms, sand, April 20th, 1891 
(a number of specimens in the stomach of a black-mouthed dog-fish, Prestiurus 
melanostoma: they were bright blue before preservation). 
Marine Laboratory.—8 miles off Achill Head, 13th April, 1899 (many specimens 
in stomach of mackerel from surface drift-net). 
Museum, Dublin.—No. 114, 1896. Whitepool Bay, Co. Antrim, per Mr. R. 
Welch. A number of specimens cast up on the beach. 
Previous Irish Records. —Off Valentia (A. M. N.*): Valentia Harbour (A. O. W.*): 
off N. of Ireland (Herdman). 
Distribution.—Hast and west coasts of Scotland (A. M. N.*): Irish Sea and 
North Channel (Herdman). 
Norway, Faroé Channel, &c.; N.EH. America (A. M. N.*): Bay of Biscay 
(Caullery): N.E. America (Herdman). 
The presence of these Schizopods in the stomach of a ground-fish like Pris- 
tiurus affords fairly conclusive proof that they are not at all times pelagic in habit. 
The specimens from off the Skelligs may haye been taken either at the bottom or 
during the ascent of the net, and the same remark would seem to apply to 
creatures taken in any ordinary net which cannot be opened and closed at given 
depths. Professor Herdman obtained his material entirely at the surface by 
means of the pumps of an Atlantic liner (Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc., xii., 1898, 
p. 83); and it is noteworthy that the species was only met with off the coasts of 
the Huropean and American continents, and not in the central part of the 
Atlantic. 
+ Euphausia pellucida, Dana; Stylocheiron sp. Sce Note added in Press, p. 250. 
