234 Miscellaneous, 



Var. i. With a chestnut brown ground, a red apex, and an orange- 

 coloured edge to the outside of the pink- edged peristome, and with- 

 out any white band but a slender white sutural line. 



Var. k. With a yellowish brown ground colour, the apex and the 

 back of the peristome bright orange-red ; peristome and columella 

 rose-coloured ; without a band, but with a slender white suture line. 



Var. I. Of an uniform yellowish brown, with white peristome. 



Var. m. Of an uniform pale brownish yellow, with white peristome. 



The most beautiful varieties are most abundant on the leaves of 

 bushes and young trees at St. Jaun, where also all the other varieties 

 are found. Some of the lesser painted varieties are also found at 

 Abulug in the same province. The species has not been found in 

 any other part of the Philippine Islands. 



Since this paper was read two other varieties have been found by 

 Mr. Cuming in his packages ; they are 



Var. n. Of a very rich dark chestnut brown, with a scarlet apex, 

 four very narrow interrupted white bands of epidermis, a white suture, 

 and orange-coloured outer edge to the white peristome. 



Var. 0. Of a rich light brown colour, with a yellowish band form- 

 ing the circumference of the shell, and another band of the same 

 yellowish colour in front, near the columella ; peristome white, its 

 edge pink, and back of the lip orange-yellow. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



ZOOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF TENBY. 

 BY J. F. DAVIS, M.D. WITH A PLATE. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Bath, Oct. 23rd, 1 840. 



Gentlemen, — During a temporary sojourn at Tenby in August 

 last, I was induced to see a large fish in the possession of a publican 

 and fisherman named Cadwallader, which he had taken in Tenby Bay 

 the preceding autumn, while employed in the capture of herrings. It 

 had been tolerably well-preserved and was kept for exhibition, being 

 by no means destitute of attraction. It measures ten feet in length 

 and six feet in girth, between the eyes two feet and a half, and has 

 the appearance of belonging to the Sharks ; but its most remarkable 

 feature is the head, which, as Cuvier remarks of the Hammer-headed 

 Shark, is unlike to anything in the whole animal kingdom besides. 

 It is a female, and when opened was found to contain a considerable 

 number of young ones about eighteen inches long, one of which is 

 stuffed and exhibited with the mother. Upon my return to Bath in 

 September I had an opportunity of referring to Mr. Yarrell's late 

 work on British Fishes, where there is the following notice of this 

 animal as an occasional visitant of our coasts. " The genus of Sharks 

 next in order, according to Cuvier's arrangement in the ' Regne 

 Animale,' is that of Zygcena or Hammer-headed Sharks, of which a 

 single specimen is recorded by Messrs. C. and J. Paget, in their 

 * Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth,' p. 17, to have been 

 taken there in October 1829, the head of which is now preserved in 



