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fish referred to by Pennant, in his British Zoology^ vol. iii. 

 p. 423., in a note from Lacep^de's Sup, to Histoire des 

 Poisso?is, V. 696., and called Le salmone Cumberland. 

 " Head small ; eyes large ; mouth large, with two rows of 

 teeth on the tongue ; scales small ; general colour white ; 

 back gray ; flesh pale and tasteless." In Ray's Letters there 

 is a letter to him from Captain Hatton, in which this fish is 

 obviously alluded to : the following is the passage : — " Whilst 

 I am now writing, a Westmoreland acquaintance of mine, 

 coming to see me, in discourse did accidentally mind me of 

 the surprise I was in some years ago, at Lowther Hall, Cum- 

 berland, Sir J. Lowther's. Seeing at Sir John's table a fresh- 

 water trout, which was 38 in. in length, and 27 in. in girth ; 

 taken in Hulswater, a large lake in Westmoreland, in which 

 I was assured by Sir John and others, trouts of that size (nay 

 larger) are frequently taken." Some of your correspondents 

 may be able to give a fuller account of this fish. 



I am. Sir, yours, &c. 

 Clapton, March, 1832. O. 



The strictures of A. R. Y., at p. 58., on the char, are a 

 farther contribution to its history. — J. D, 



Art. V. On some remarl-able Forms in 'Entomology^ including a 

 Notice of Mr. Stephens's Description of Chiasognathus Grantu. 

 By J. O. West WOOD, Esq. F.L.S. &c. 



Amongst the almost (may I not rather say, absolutely?) 

 endless variety of forms impressed by an all-wise Creator 

 upon the animated works of the creation, it is a remarkable 

 fact, that very few so entirely recede from the general struc- 

 ture of the great groups evidently existing in nature, as to 

 require the establishment of fresh orders, or other primary 

 sections for their reception in a systematic distribution. It 

 more frequently happens that the attention of the naturalist is 

 directed to objects which, although possessing the essential 

 characters of the group to which they belong, exhibit the 

 most remarkable appearances from the extraordinary develope- 

 ment of some one or more of their organs, and lead him, at 

 first sight, to doubt the propriety of the location assigned to 

 them. These objects are consequently regarded in the most 

 interesting light, not only by the professed naturalist, on 

 account of the peculiarity of their structure, but also by the 

 amateur, from the grotesqueness or singularity of their appear- 



