Mr. F. J. S. Parry on the male of Chcirotonus MacLcaii. 315 



Cape Clear, in the month of May last, by Mr. MacAndrew, whose 

 successful dredging exploits are so well known. This gentleman, 

 writing from Liverpool in August 1846, gave me the following in- 

 teresting particulars of the Lancelet : — " The first time I obtained 

 this species was early in Sept. 1843 in Kilbrannan Sound, West 

 Clyde— forty to fifty fathoms ; muddy sand : the specimens were of 

 large size, about double that described by Yarrell, and appeared to 

 possess some peculiarities* — one was placed in the hands of Mr. 

 Goodsir, and the other deposited in the museum of the Royal Insti- 

 tution, Liverpool. At the end of April 1845 specimens were pro- 

 cured off Mount's Bay, Cornwall, in about thirty fathoms ; and west 

 of Scilly, forty-five fathoms in clean sand. It is by no means rare on 

 the Cornish coast, as on two or three occasions I found as many as 

 five in my dredge at once." 



Note, — Mackerel Midge, Motella glauca, Couch (sp.). 



A specimen of this minute fish was on the 22nd June 1844 taken 

 in company with a few others of allied species at the Kyles of Bute, 

 on the western coast of Scotland, by Mr. Hyndman : — they were at 

 the surface of the water. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIV. — Brief description of the male o/ Cheirotonus MacLeaii, 

 Hope. By E. J. S. Parry, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 



[With a Plate.] 



EUCHEIRIM. 



Cheirotonus MacLeaii (Hope) <$. Plate III. 



^ENEO-viridis, thorace lateribus externe serrulatis, varioloseque punc- 

 tatis ; sulco longitudinali in medio dorsi fortiter impresso ; elytris 

 fusco-aeneis, maculis croceis, marginibus elevatis, corpore infra cro- 

 ceis pilis tecto. 



Pedes antici, longissimi, coxis armatis, femoribus elongatis, si- 

 nuatis, in medio dente singulo armatis, quatuor postici, femoribus sub- 

 compressis, muticis, tibiis basi multispinosis. 



Long. unc. 21 ; lat. unc. 1£. 



The above is a short description of this singular and rare in- 

 sect, I believe the only one yet seen in Europe ; it was received 

 by Henry George Harrington, Esq., from the northern parts of 

 the Himalaya range, and to that gentleman I am indebted for its 

 possession, as also for the accompanying Plate, so faithfully exe- 

 cuted by Mr. Wm. Wing. There is little doubt that it is the 

 male of Cheirotonus MacLeaii described and figured by the llev. 

 T. Hope in vol. xviii. of the ' Linn. Transactions/ 



* I have since learned that these were not of specific value. — W. T. 



