3276 THE ZooLocist—OcToBER, 1872. 
two, and to justify the view that Bloch’s identification of the fish as 
S. Ophidion, Linn., is correct. The size of my fish forbids my supposing it 
to be the immature young of any species, and unless some other corre- 
spondent of the ‘ Zoologist’ can kindly set me right, I shall hold that the 
species is new as a British fish, and suggest for its name, the “ blunt-tailed 
pipe-fish” (say S. brevicaudatus). I have taken a cast of the fish (by means 
of gelatine) in plaster of Paris, and have also preserved the specimen; but 
neither of these will show the beautiful semi-translucency and rich colouring 
of the living animal.—Thomas Cornish ; Penzance, September 16, 1872. 
Occurrence of the Tunny at Plymouth.—On the 22nd of July a very 
large specimen of the tunny (Thynnus vulgaris) was captured in shallow 
water, ou the sand-banks of the Laira estuary, at the mouth of the Plym, by 
some bargemen, who attacked it with their shovels. This fish was nine feet 
long, five feet ten inches in girth, weighed about eight hundredweight, and 
took twelve men to lift it into a cart. This seems an enormous size for a 
fish of the mackerel family, but, in a measure, makes good what is written 
by the ancients concerning it. I possess a photograph taken from the 
specimen just after death.—J. Gatcombe ; September 5, 1872. 
‘Mr. J. Brooking-Rowe also kindly sends a notice of the above. He 
states that the tunny was exhibited in two or three villages, and eventually 
sold to a farmer for manure.—Edward Newman. | 
Capture of Coronella levis at Pokesdown, Hants.—In accordance with 
my promise to that effect I send you information of the capture of another 
full-grown example of Coronella levis, or Coluber Austriacus, in this neigh- 
bourhood. I received it alive, a few days since, from my friend, the Rey. 
A. C. Hervey, who captured it at Pokesdown, about two miles from hence.— 
E. B. Kemp-Welch ; Bournemouth , August 30, 1872. 
Larva of Eupithecia togata—General colour dull, pinkish brown; 
central dorsal, subdorsal‘and spiracular lines whitish, indistinct, especially 
the two latter; skin wrinkled; body sparsely studded with black tubercles 
and short hairs. Head and collar glabrous and horny, dusky brown. A 
queer internal-looking creature, sealiety like a miniature Cossus ligni- 
perda. Feetls inside the buds and young shoots of spruce fir, I am 
indebted to the kindness of Mr. Hellins, of Exeter, who reared it from the 
egg, for the opportunity of seeing and describing this, I believe, hitherto 
unknown larva. Mr. Buckler has stiooeeded 3 in taking its portrait. Hatched 
July 18; full-fed the end of August.—H. Harpur Crewe; The Rectory, 
Drayton-Beauchamp, Tring, September 2, 1872. 
