158 Miscellaneous, 



tion of this same species, from a specimen taken in the town of Shef- 

 field ; but the writer, flattering himself that it is the only individual 

 which has been of late years caught in Britain, arrives very logically 

 at the conclusion that it cannot be the migratory locust, but that it 

 is some South American species, which has been imported in a cargo 

 of wood or some other product of that country. 



I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, 



Edwin Brown. 



P.S.— I beg also to say, that of the entire number of Terns shot in 

 our neighbourhood in May last, and which amounted to many scores, 

 not one was Sterna hirundo ; they were all, without exception, S. 

 arctica. 



Burton-on-Trent, 19th Sept., 1842. 



LOCUSTA CHRISTII. 



Last week, a fine specimen of the Locusta Christii was brought to 

 Leeds in a waggon of lead, from the works at Pately Bridge, which 

 fell into my hands. Mr. Curtis, in his ' British Entomology,' plate 

 608, mentions only two examples as having occurred, one in Ireland, 

 and the other in a garden on the Clapham Road. I suspect three 

 other specimens have been taken in the neighbourhood of Scar- 

 borough last week, from a paragraph in the ' Scarborough Herald ' 

 announcing their capture, but under a supposition that they were the 

 Locusta migratoria. Henry Denny. 



Philos. Hall, Leeds, 15th Sept., 1842. 



A specimen of the locust tribe, an uncommon visitor in this coun- 

 try, was found on Monday in the Town- well-fold. The insect is 

 supposed to have been brought from Birches Barn in a load of clover. 

 It is now caged by the boy who found it, and appears in excellent 

 spirits. We have heard of other specimens of this insect having 

 appeared lately in this country.— Stafford Examiner. 



CAPTAIN BELCHER'S COLLECTIONS. 



Our conchological readers will be gratified to learn that an exten- 

 sive and valuable collection of shells has recently arrived in England, 

 having been made by Capt. Belcher, C.B., during his protracted 

 voyage of circumnavigation in H.M.S. Sulphur. A large propor- 

 tion of these have been dredged, and some are from very deep water. 

 Much attention has been paid to the localities and geographical 

 range of the different species, also to the circumstances under which 

 they were found, and to every point interesting in their ceconomy. 

 The depth of water in some cases had an apparent influence on their 

 development, but very frequently the effects of this were not dis- 

 cernible. On the contrary, locality was found to control greatly 

 the size and colouring of the shells. At the solicitation of Capt. Bel- 

 cher, the Admiralty have appointed Mr. Hinds, an officer of the ex- 

 pedition, and who during nearly the whole of the voyage gave his 

 aid towards the formation of the collection, to take charge of it and 

 make it available to science. A number of zoological objects have 



