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mola. It measured twenty-three inches in length, sixteen inches across the 
body, and thirty-two inches from the tip of the dorsal-fin to that of the anal, 
and was brought to me the next day for this Museum. Its colour was a 
beautiful silvery gray on the belly and sides, and rather darker on the back. 
On examining it, I found adhering to the skin, so closely as to be hardly 
perceptible, one specimen of a round and flat trematode worm, Capsala 
Rudolphiana (Johnston), and many specimens of a fish-louse, Lepeoptheirus 
Nordmanni, as kindly determined for me by Prof. Rolleston, of Oxford. 
On removing the gills I found six specimens of Cecrops Latreillii clinging 
by their sharp claws to the horny lamine, and several masses of what 
I suppose to be their eggs. One fémale specimen was over an inch in 
length, and had a large male specimen attached on the under side. There 
was also another male, but it got separated from its partner. All these 
parasites were still alive, although the fish had been out of the water for 
many hours.—W. S. M. D’Ursan (Curator, Albert Memorial Museum, 
Exeter). 
SHORT-FINNED TuNnNY at PrNnzaNce.— By the kindness of Sir J. 
St. Aubyn, I am able to mention that a Short-finned Tunny, Thynnus 
brachypterus (Cuvier), has been taken off St. Michael’s Mount, in this 
Bay. Its length is nineteen inches and a half. I am inclined to think 
that these fish occasionally find their way to market as large mackerel, 
from which species it is, however, quite distinct.— Tuomas CornisH 
(Penzance). . 
OccuRRENCE OF THE PELAMID ON THE Cornis8H Coast.—During the 
first week in August a specimen of that rare British fish, the Pelamid, 
Pelamys sarda, was taken by Mr. John Furse, of Mevagissey, in a ground- 
seine in Hannah Bay. It was seventeen inches long, and weighed two 
pounds.—Jonn GarcomBE (Durnford Street, Stonehouse). 
{This fish, in shape not unlike a Mackerel, is so rare, that Couch says 
(vol. ii., p. 103), “in two instances only has it been known to have been 
taken in Britain.”"—Ep. | : 
Boar-FISH IN THE IsteE or WicHt.— The fish, of which I send an 
outline of the natural size, was picked up dead, but fresh, by my brother 
at Sandown, Isle of Wight, on July 4th. Its colours were a pinky ver- 
milion, deepest along the back, and underneath reflections of purple and 
blue. The fishermen to whom I showed it considered it to be a very 
curiously coloured specimen of the Dory.—A. W. Rosine (20, Bootham, 
York). [It is the Boar-fish, Capros aper.—Ep.| 
