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Show 1879.2 OF WESTON-SUPER-MARE. 755 The general average of the weight of the captures increased 2 lb. m 1877, to 3 lb. in 1878, and 3 lb. 11 oz. in 1879 ; and an examination of the figures leads to the belief that the broods were much more numerous in the first than in the second or third year; while the small size of those taken in 1877 would also seem to infer the absence of "large Turbot in Ballinskellig Bay at that time. In 1878 the figures apparently show that the increase in weight of the fish had been from | to 2| lb. each fish, the highest numbers being among examples from 2 to 4 lb., instead of from 1 to 2 lb. But in 1879 we again find a change, the highest numbers captured being among those weighing from 3 to 5 lb. each, which would seem to confirm the conclusions demonstrable from the figures in the preceding years. RHOMBUS L^EVIS, Linn. The Brill. Is occasionally taken at Weston. RHOMBUS MEGASTOMA, Donov. The Whiff, or Mary Sole. R H O M B U S PUNCTATUS, Bloch. " Muller's Topknot." These fishes are both found in Devonshire ; the latter frequently in the spring months. In Ballinskellig Bay this year Lord Ducie took Whiffs between the middle and end of July, but none in the succeeding month. ARNOGLOSSUS LATERNA, Walb. The Scald-fish. Somersetshire (Baker). PLEURONECTES PLATESSA, Linn. The Plaice. P. LIMANDA, Linn. The Dab. PLEURONECTES MICROCEPHALUS, Donovan. The Smear Dab. PLEURONECTES ELONGATUS, Yarrell. (Plate LXI.) The talented author of the 'British Fishes' received an example from Stolford in Somersetshire, where Mr. Baker obtained two specimens; and Mr. Higgins (Zoologist, 1861, p. 7317) records two more from Weston, which he gave to Mr. Couch. It is with much pleasure that I have to record my thanks to that excellent observer Mr. Matthias Dunn, of Megavissey, in Cornwall, for a fine example, about 9 inches long, taken in 30 fathoms water by a trawler, almost two miles from the Deadman, Cornwall, November 6th, 1879, and which I received on the 10th. B. v., D. 115, P. 12, V. 6, A. 97, C. 19, L.l. 115. Length of head 6^, of caudal fin 6|-, height of body 3} in total length. Eyes on the right side, and separated from each other by a very narrow scaleless ridge, which is continued almost to the origin of the lateral line; lower eye one third in advance of the upper. Lower jaw slightly the longer anteriorly, and has a tubercle below the symphysis. Maxilla two thirds as long as the orbit, and extending to beneath the front edge of the lower eye. Body very thin, its greatest thickness equalling one sixth of its greatest height, excluding the vertical fins. Teeth in a single row, compressed, with |