34 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
further experiments could be made, for the Torpedo ceased to evolve any 
electricity after this. On examining the mouth, the tails of two fishes 
were seen. On extricating them they proved to be a large bass two feet 
long and a conger two feet and a half in length. This last circumstance 
affords proof of the destructive powers of this most remarkable of the electric 
fishes.—Ep. Runote (Porthleven). 
Food of the Common Cod.—On 24th November last I took out of the 
stomach of a Common Cod caught in Mounts Bay, the half-shells of 
several bivalves, all of the species “ Pecten”; three or four little rounded 
pebbles of unstratified slate, one of them covered with a coralline formation ; 
the half-digested remains of some small fish, too far gone for identification ; 
and a mass of small crabs, out of which I was able to select the remains of 
forty sufficiently perfect for identification. I found Xantho florida and 
X. rivulosa (which I believe to be the same Crab) in the greatest numbers. 
More than one half were of this species. There were two specimens of the 
Wrinkled Swimming Crab (Portunus corrugatus), two of the slender Spider 
Crab (Stenorhynchus tenuirostris), a fragment of a small Common Crab 
(Cancer pagurus), two specimens of the minute Dwarf Crab (Porcellana 
longicornis), two of the Dwarf Swimming Crab (Portunus pusillus), and 
eight distinct carapaces (some with claws, some with legs, and some without 
either) of that exceedingly rare Crab the Slender-legged Spider Crab 
(Inachus leptochirus). I had never seen this species before ; but, on com- 
paring the eight specimens with Bell's description and figure, the identifi- 
cation was absolutely certain. Two of the males were sufticiently perfect to 
show plainly and unmistakably the ‘round polished tubercle on the 
thorax which somewhat resembles the half of a pearl” (Bell). It is to be 
noted that in the whole contents of the stomach of the Cod—those which I 
threw away as well as those which I was able to identify—I found no trace 
of the remains of any shrimps or of any of the little lobster-like Crus- 
taceans (Galathea, Munide@ Scyllarus, &e.), which, we know, are abundant in 
Mounts Bay. I need hardly say that none of the specimens were in a 
state fit for preservation.—'THos. Cornisu (Penzance). 
ANNELIDS. 
Collections at Jersey—We hear that Messrs. Sinel & Co., marine 
zoologists of David Place, Jersey, are now sending out to museums and 
collectors some remarkably fine and rare Annelids obtained from their 
coasts. They also have one of the finest series of Crustaceans ever 
offered to naturalists, and their microscopic preparations of the early life- 
stages of these and other marine forms attract, we understand, much atten- 
tion, being comparatively new objects to microscopists. Messrs. Sinel are 
fortunate in having selected so favourable a locality, the fauna of which 
they are so assiduously investigating, 
