4080 The Zoologist — July, 1874. 



Fox Sbark off Scilly. — A fine specimen of the thresher or fox shark 

 [Carcharias vidjws) was recently taken in mackerel drift-nets off Scillj, and 

 has been on exhibition in the Corpus Christi Fair, held here to-day. It 

 measures over all thirteen feet, consisting of — from snout to eye, four 

 inches ; from eye to fork six feet four inches ; and from fork to extreme 

 tip of the tail six feet four inches. I could not ascertain its weight. The 

 pilot-fish has also again been taken here. — Thomas Cornish; Penzance, 

 June 5, 1874. 



Dorse near the Lizard^ Cornwall. — I have had brought to me a dorse, 

 two feet six inches in length over all : it was caught near the Lizard. 

 I mention the fact that I may, by an accumulation of instances, prove that 

 it is a fish which is not rare in British waters. It is worth catching for 

 another reason. It spawns early in the year, and, having recovered, is in 

 good edible condition. — Id.; June 10, 1874. 



Note on a Pled lobster. — On the 11th of June a lobster of about three 

 pounds weight, considered by the fishermen to be a female, but with no 

 spawn attached, was caught about a mile off Cromer, in which the normal 

 colour was curiously intermixed over the whole surface of the animal with 

 pale yellow or yellowish horn-colour. I saw this lobster alive, and observed 

 that this pied appearance was present on the body, head, tail, legs, claws, 

 and even on one o'f the antennae (the other having been lost). I may add 

 that the irregular intermingling of the two colours closely resembled the 

 ordinary markings of tortoiseshell. — J. H. Gurney. 



|rflxttt)ings of ^ncntilic Sflxiclits. 



Entomological Society of London. 

 June 1, 1874. — Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in 



the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors ; — ' Transactions of the American Entomological Society,' vol. ii. 

 nos. 2 and 3 ; vol iv. nos. 1 — 4 ; presented by the Society. ' Bulletin of 

 the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,' vol. i. no. 4 ; by the Society. 

 'Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1873, no. 3 ; 

 by the Society. ' Coleopterologische Hefte,' xii. ; by the Editor, Baron E. 

 von Harold. 'Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,' 1873, 3, 4; 1874, 

 1,2; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' 

 no. 20 ; by the Club. ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. vi. no. 4 ; by the 



