ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 239 



Uncommon Fishes in the Solway Firth. Besides the Belted 

 Bonito (Pelamys sarda) said to have been recently taken in the 

 Sohvay, other scarce species have been found. I say " scarce " 

 because, although both the fish to be mentioned are very scarce in 

 our waters, they are not by any means rare elsewhere on the British 

 coasts. The first one to note is the "John Dory" (Zeus faber}, a 

 specimen of which was sent me from Annan lately. That it is an 

 infrequent thing there is proven by the fact that none of the fisher- 

 men to whom it was shown had ever seen it before. The other 

 species is a fine little specimen of the Garpike (Belone vulgaris) sent 

 me from Carsethorn, where it was found stranded at low tide. The 

 Garpike has been occurring in the Solway more frequently of late 

 years than formerly. R. SERVICE, Maxwelltown. 



Blue Shark in the Firth of Forth. An example of the Blue 

 Shark ( Carcharias glaucus\ about five feet in length, was caught in a 

 salmon-net at Gullane Point, East Lothian, on ;th July 1898. 

 When I had my attention directed to it, a couple of days later, it lay 

 stranded among the rocks some 300 or 400 yards from the net. I 

 cannot call to mind any previous record of the actual occurrence of 

 the species within the waters of the Forth ; but there can be little 

 doubt it occasionally enters the maritime portion of the Firth 

 during the summer months, seeing it is a not uncommon visitor to 

 St. Andrews Bay, and has been captured in the salmon-nets there, 

 as mentioned by Professor M'Intosh in his "Marine Invertebrates 

 and Fishes of St. Andrews," p. 184. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Spread of the Roaeh in the Solway District. Hitherto in our 

 district the Roach (Leutiscus rut Hits) has been known only from the 

 Lochmaben lochs, the Lochar, the Black Loch of Colvend, and the 

 White Loch of Inch, near Stranraer. For the last year or two 

 numerous specimens have been got from time to time in the little 

 sluggish water of Cargen. It seems to be quite established there. 

 That it is quite a recent immigrant there is positively certain. It was 

 a puzzle where it had come from, until I found recently that Roach 

 had been placed in Terregles ponds by the late Captain Maxwell. 

 There seems no reason to doubt that the Roach of the Cargen are 

 the produce of fish that have escaped from the ponds in Terregles 

 Park. R. SERVICE, Maxwelltown. 



Meta menardi (Latr.) on Ailsa Craig 1 . Mr. W. Eagle Clarke 

 has forwarded to me for identification a couple of specimens (both 

 females) and an egg-cocoon of this large cave-loving spider which 

 were sent to him from Ailsa Craig in July last by Mr. Tulloch, 

 lighthouse-keeper there. I have already recorded the species in the 

 pages of this magazine from the Forth and Solway areas. It has 

 also been recorded from Tweed and Dee ; but not till now, so far 

 as I know, from Clyde. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



