Zoological Society. 507 



P. 137.— 2. A beautiful drawing of a Launce, by " W. W. Ellis, 

 ad viv. delin. et pinxt. 1779." 



P. 138. — 3. A letter from L. Morris, accompanied by a pen 

 sketch of the 'Morris' Leptocephalus, copied from a blank page in 

 Lewis Morris's Ray Synopsis, by Mr. Lloyd, at Aberystwith, 1786. 

 This note is copied into the edition of ' Pennant's Zoology' for 1812, 

 p. 215, where the editor observes : **The above memorandum is pre- 

 served in the copy of the British Zoology in the valuable library of 

 the President of the Royal Society in Soho Square." The editor 

 does not notice any of the other papers in the Banksian copy of 

 Pennant. 



P. 178. — 4. A note about the name of the Torse. 



P. 187. — 5. Sir William Musgrave's note accompanying a Spotted 

 Goby and a young Angel Fish. 



P. 213. — C. Hugh Davies' reply to Donovan respecting the tri- 

 furcated Hake, from the North Wales Gazette, March 1810. 



P. 213. — 7. Moses Griffith in reply to Donovan, from the Cam- 

 brian, Dec. 30, 1809. 



P. 372. — 8. The description of three fish, accompanied by very 

 good figures in India ink, probably by Colonel Montague (? ?). 



Viz. 1. Leptocephalus Morrissii. — I may observe, that on the con- 

 tinent they apply this name to a species which is much longer and 

 more slender than the one figured by Pennant and Yarrell, and Costa 

 has given the name of L. candidissimus to the shorter British spe- 

 cies ; we have both species from Costa in the British Museum. 



2. Ccepola rubescens. 



3. The Variegated Sole, Solea lingula. In the MSS. it is stated, 

 "This fish is sometimes taken in Torbay in the trawling-nets. It 

 differs at first sight from the common sole in the edges of the scales 

 being strongly ciliated, and in wanting the numerous small beards 

 that hang from the lower side of the head of the common sort." 

 This appears to be the Red-back described from E. Hanmer's MSS. in 

 the 1812 edition of Pennant, but there is no reference to this figure. 



9. The letter from J. F. respecting the fish from Filey Bay, 

 R. Banksii of Valenciennes. 



10. The drawing oi Regalecus Glesne from Newlyn Quay. 



I may also mention, that in this copy of Pennant the plate 93, 

 called Ophidium imberbe, Brit. Zool. App. iii., is marked in pencil, 

 apparently by Dr. Solander, as being *' Murcena Anguilla." This 

 probably explains why the figure is replaced in the edition of 1812 

 by Montague's figure from the Wernerian Transactions, as mentioned 

 by Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, 412 & 414, where these two figures are 

 copied. 



Since this paper was read, there has appeared in the ' Annals of 

 Natural History ' a full description of Mr. Whitehead's specimen, and 

 an account of some other specimens found on other parts of the En- 

 glish coast. 



