The Zoologist — January, 1871. 2445 



within two liours of its capture in perfect condition. I immediately sent it 

 oiT to Mr. F. Bucklaud, for bis ]\Iuseum at South Kensington. A day or 

 two ago, on visiting Polperro, the Lirth-plnce and long-life residence of the 

 late Mr. Jonathan Couch, where he wrote his well-known ' History of British 

 Fishes,' in which he describes and gives a figure of " the only representation 

 that has been derived from an undoubted British specimen," I was surprised 

 to find that three specimens had been taken by the fishermen there and 

 were preserved by Mr. Loughran, as well as another sent to him from 

 Plymouth. These, with the previous captures, make eight specimens taken 

 within a few days of each other, — a somewhat remarkable circumstance that 

 so many should have been taken within a few months of Mr. Couch's death, 

 whilst during his long life he met with but one specimen, and that not 

 quite perfect. Mr. Cornish has given such an excellent description of a 

 specimen (supposed to be the second British) taken in Mount's Bay in 18G7 

 (see 'Zoologist' for that year, S. S. 793, 79-4) that I need not enter into 

 details, but merely say that the specimen taken here measured thirty inches 

 in length, whilst those taken at Polperro were about the same length, with 

 one exception, which I should think about three inches shorter. I could not 

 measure the Polperro specimens. — Stephen Clorig ; Looe, Decemher 1'3, 

 1870.. 



Weight of Roach. — I can vouch for the accuracy of the weight of the 

 roach caught in our river, the Avon, which you noticed in the 'Zoologist' 

 (S. S. 2388). The person who caught it was a Mr. Louter, of Margate; 

 he was lodging with my foreman, who saw the fish weighed : it was 

 preserved by an amateur birdstuffer of this city, but completely spoiled. — 

 Henry Blackmore ; Crane Street, Salisbury, December 3, 1870. 



Proceedings of the Eutomologiral Society. 



November 7, 1870. — H. \V. B.\tes, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — Catalogues of Lepidoptera, Hemiptera Heteroptera, Dermaptera 

 Saltatoria, and Myriapoda, in the Collection of the British Museum; 

 18 parts, presented by the Trustees of the Museum. ' Proceedings of the 

 Pioj'al Societ}',' Nos. 121, 122; by the Society. 'Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society,' vol. xxvi. pt. 1, vol. xxvii. pts. 1 and 2 ; ' Journal of the 

 Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 49 ; by the Society. ' Journal of the Agri- 

 cultural Societj^' 9nd ser., vol. vi. pt. 2 ; by the Society. ' Journal of the 

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