Queries and Answers. 395 



Mr. Hailstone, in a communication dated May 21., has 

 given these names : — " Pontophilus trispinosus Hailstone (p. 

 261.); P- bispinosus Hailstone (p. 271. 273. 274.); for, of 

 course, no other name can be given it ; Hippolyte macrocheles 

 Hailstone (p. 272. 274.) ; Porcellana Linne«72« Leach (p. 265. 

 268 — 270.)." Mr. Hailstone has noted in the same commu- 

 nication that " The Porcellana I find in Leach's collection in 

 the British Museum with the name 'Linneana' attached to 

 it : this must be noticed, and both Mr. Westwood's and my 

 own name superseded." 



[We claim all the blame of not giving Mr. Hailstone an 

 opportunity of applying these names, or what names he would, 

 before our publishing his communications on these Crustacea, 

 by our sending him a proof of them. Had Mr. Hailstone 

 hinted a wish, or had Mr. Westwood, when he kindly under- 

 took the farther identification of the forms of Crustacea which 

 Mr. Hailstone had described, received from us an intimation 

 that Mr. Hailstone was wishing to have the denominating of 

 them, Mr. Westwood would, we are certain, have left the 

 opportunity open.] 



A Rejoinder, by Mr. Dale, to Mr. Stephens. — Mr. Stephens 

 says, in a late number [of his own work] that " the remarks 

 of Mr. Dale, in Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist., vii. 177.) upon 

 the latter part of this note, I shall merely observe, are totally 

 at variance with truth, and the offspring of malicious opposi- 

 tion." I have merely to request a reference to Mr. Stephens's 

 catalogue of his own sale of British insects, by Mr. Thomas, 

 on Friday, May 20. 1825, p. 6., and lot 73. : one copy of 

 which I have, as proof of my assertion, in my possession (if 

 not to be seen elsewhere) ; and it will appear very obvious 

 whether my statement or that of Mr. Stephens is the more cor- 

 rect. — J. C. Dale. Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, April 23. 

 1835. [We have omitted the retort on "malicious oppo- 

 sition."] 



Art. VIII. Queries and Answers;, 



Is not the Jumaire the Gnu ? Information on the Gnu. — ■ In 

 some of the late Numbers of the M. N. H, there have been 

 remarks on hybrid animals [VII. 598., VIII. 198 — 201.] : I 

 should be glad to be informed, by any correspondent, whe- 

 ther a remarkable hybrid, mentioned by some travellers as 

 existing in Italy (the offspring of the bull and the mare), be 

 entirely a fabulous creation. If I mistake not, it is mentioned 

 by Arthur Young, and called the jumaire. I had no oppor- 



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