128 DUBLIN NATTJEAL HISTOET SOCIETY. 



I feel assured that that beautiful Mediterranean species, the radiated weever 

 (Trachinus radiata) and found on the southern shores of France, will on our 

 south-west coast be recorded in the Fauna. 



FEBRUARY 18, 1853. 



OCCURRENCE OF TETRODON PENNANTU ON THE COAST OF WATERFORD. 



Mr. Kinahan wished to be permitted to put on record the following notice of 

 the occurrence of a rare fish on tiiese shores, for which he was indebted to Mr. 

 Sargint. The specimen to which he alluded he saw afterwards, and it was now, 

 he believed, in the possession of Mr. Ussher, of Camphire House, county of Wa- 

 terford. It was considerably larger than one taken off the coast of Wexford 

 during 1850, and which Mr. Kinahan also saw. It makes the third recorded off 

 these shores, another specimen having been taken off the coast of Waterford 

 some years ago : — 



** Ardmore, September 28, 1852. 



*' I am anxious to put on record the occurrence of Pennant's Globe-fish (Te- 

 trodon Pennantii), a fine specimen of which was washed ashore here on Sunday 

 last, the 26th ult., after a smart north-easterly gale. The specimen was dead 

 when captured. Its measurements were as follow : — From mouth to extremity 

 of caudal fin, 21 inches; from commencement of spines below lower jaw to vent, 

 13 inches ; circumference around the moderately dilated pouch, 33 inches. The 

 fin notation as follows: — Caudal, 7; dorsal, 12; anal, 12; pectoral, 14. Its co- 

 lours are most brilliant; ultramarine blue on the back, belly silvery. The pouch 

 was covered with white spines, each arising by four roots. The spines extended 

 from below the lower jaw down to the vent. After the fish was skinned and 

 stuffed, the colour on the back faded to the steel blue-colour of the common cod's 

 back. The fin rays of the tail were of singular structure, being each made up of 

 a pair of fin rays joined at their base. A wavy row of dark depressed spots ex- 

 tended from the snout laterally over each eye, curving downwards anterior to 

 the branchial openings. After the skin dried, these spots became elevated, and 

 rough to the touch. 



** Yours, " Edward H. Sargint." 



Two specimens of Echinorynchus (species not before recorded in Ireland), 

 taken from the pectoral muscles of this specimen, were presented to the Society 

 by Mr. Sargint at a subsequent meeting. 



FEBRUARY 9, 1854. 



OCCURRENCE OF PORBEAGLE SHARK (l. CORNUBICA), AND FOX SHARK (CARCHA- 



RIAS VULPES). 



Mr. Andrews presented to the Society a well preserved specimen of the Por- 

 beagle shark ("Lamna cornubica). This was the second specimen that Mr. 

 Andrews had obtained in Dingle Bay. Those sharks generally appear in the bay 

 in the autumn months, during the time that the hake and herrings are plentiful 

 in the bay. Thev are of less frequent occurrence than the blue shark (Carcha- 

 rias glaucus), which appears at the same season, and is sometimes troublesome 

 to the fishermen's lines. Mr. Andrews also presented the tail-fin of a shark, 

 supposed to be that of the Fox shark, or Thresher (Carcharias vulpes), taken 

 from a fish captured in Dingle Bay. Mr. Stopford informed Mr. Andrews that 

 he and the crew of his yacht had noticed the Thresher shark in Dingle Bay. 



Mr. R. Callwell mentioned that in one of the tours of inspection in the Ballast 

 Office steam vessel, he had visited Carlingford Lough in the month of August. 

 Herrings at the time were plentiful in the Lough, and he had noticed a species 



