2812 The Zoologist — October, 1871. 



Big Fish. — Duiing the last few days fishes of an enormous size have been 

 observed iu the lake of Walleustadt, one of which is described by those who 

 have seen it as being six feet long and proportionately broad. A number 

 of persons have disappeared iu the course of the season whilst bathing, and 

 Dr, Simon and others think that they were seized by these enormous fishes 

 by the leg, and dragged under water. No oue can at present give any 

 accurate description of these monsters of the deep, but the subject is 

 attracting much attention among scientific men in this country, and we 

 hope soon to place before our readers a detailed account of the result of the 

 investigations which are now being made into this, at present, mysterious 

 subject. — Swiss Times. [Communicated by Mr. Alwin S. Bell.] 



Large SurniDllet. — About three weeks ago I weighed five surmullet 

 taken in my nets, and another on the same day, and found them to turn 

 the scale at ten pounds. They were the five largest surmullet I ever saw 

 together. — Thomas Cornisli ; Penzance. 



Galattiea Audrcwsii o(F Lauorua. — I have taken six specimens of 

 Galathea Audrewsii off Lamorna, in this Bay, in about fifteen fathoms 

 water. I procured them from the hollows of a clinker which I fished up on 

 a hand-line. — Id. ; Seidcmber 14, 1871. 



Polybius llcuslowii o(f Lamorna. — I yesterday took Polybius Henslowii 

 in a net iu al)out four fathoms water, iu this Bay. The specimen was a 

 large one, and when caught was of a dull leaden blue over the back. — Id. 



Description of tbc Larva of Enpitliecia irrignata. — Long, slender, and 

 tapering slightly towards the head ; ground colour dull yellowish green ; 

 skin rather rough and wrinkled ; central doi-sal line dull rusty red, very 

 indistinct, except on the capital and caudal segments, enlarged on the centre 

 of the median dorsal segments into a somewhat conspicuous elliptic blotch ; 

 subdorsal and spiracular lines yellowish, the latter very faint ; head rusty 

 red ; belly greenish, without markings. Feeds on oak ; full fed middle of 

 June. Much resembles the larva of E. exiguata and consignata, being 

 exactly intermediate between the two. I am indebted to the kindness of 

 Mrs. Hutchinson, of Grantsfield, and Mr. Buckler, of Emswortl), for the 

 opportunity of describing this almost unkno\ni larva. It was bred from the 

 egg by this most indefatigable of fair entomologists ; and Mr. Buckler has, 

 with his usual skill, secured a life-like figure. A few years since my friend 

 ]\Ir. Wi-atislaw, of Bury St. Edmunds, bred several perfect specimens of 

 this beautiful pug from larvse beaten from oak, at Hunstanton, in Norfolk. 

 — H. Harpur Crewe; The Rectory, Drayton-Beauchamp, Tring, June 19, 

 1871. 



