THE SOUTH-WEST OF SCOTLAND. 587 



specimen of this cuttle-fish favoured me by Capt. Fayrer, was 

 found on the shore (I believe) at Portpatrick, in April 1835. 

 The length of body is 3 inches, the breadth 2j, head 1 J, arms 

 7 inches. This individual differs only from that described 

 by Dr. Grant, ' Flem. Brit. Anim.' p. 254, in size, and in the 

 trivial difference of the arms being webbed beyond the twelfth 

 sucker. The specimens which I have seen cast ashore on 

 the opposite coast of Ireland were generally about the size of 

 the present one. 



Horrid Crab. (Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 6, pi. 8, fig. 

 14.) Lithodes Maja, Leach. By Dr. Wylie, of Ballantrae, 

 I have been favoured with a very fine specimen of this crab, 

 which was taken in a herring net there in the summer of 1838, 

 and in water from twenty to thirty fathoms in depth. It was 

 brought to Dr. W. by the fishermen, as a species they had 

 never before met with. 



Hyas coarctatus, Leach. In April 1835, specimens of this 

 crab were sent me from Portpatrick by Capt. Fayrer. 



Long-horned Crab. (Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 3, pi. 

 1, fig. 3.) Porcellana longicornis, Edw. Crust, t. 2, p. 257. 

 Received with the last. 



Plaited Lobster. (Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 15, pi. 14). 

 Galathea strigosa, Fabr. Received with the last. 



Long-clawed Lobster. (Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 14, 

 pi. 13). Galathea rugosa, Edw. Crust, t. ii. p. 274. Re- 

 ceived with the last. 



All the species here enumerated, except the three first 

 mentioned, have been obtained on the opposite coast of Ire- 

 land. 



Belfast, Nov, 12th, 1839. 



Art. IV. — On the Monkeys known to the Chinese, from the native 

 authorities. By Samuel Birch, Esq. Assist, in the Dept. of Ant. 

 of the Eng. Sec. Brit. Mus.; Assist. Sec. to the Archaeological 

 Institute of Rome. 



At a period not very remote the writer of the present article, 

 to aid the researches of a naturalist relative to the monkeys 

 known to the Chinese, undertook a series of translations from 

 the ' San tsae too hwuy,' or ' Pictorial Encyclopedia of the 

 Three Sciences/ of the descriptions annexed to the plates of 

 the various monkeys that are found in the division of Zoolo- 

 gy in that exceedingly interesting work. The great Ency- 

 clopedia of Ma twan lin did not at that time, to the writer's 

 knowledge, exist in London ; and the distractions incident to 



