186 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
a thousand or more specimens, but unfortunately did not have an 
opportunity this year of getting any from a freshly-killed whale. 
As this gamphlet is not likely to have had a wide circulation in 
England, and as the tiny subject of it has not been mentioned, 
to my knowledge, in any other publication, I copy the generic 
characters as given by Herr Aurivillius :— 
“Char. gen.: Corpus fere cylindricum. Antenne antice 
octoarticulate ; postice biarticulate ramo secundario articulo 
uno parvo. Palpus mandibularum minimus, tuberculo setigero 
formatus. Palpus maxillarum simplex. Maxillipedes anteriores 
processibus cylindraceis duobus instructi; posteriores validi, 
subchelati. Pedes primi paris prehensiles; rami ambo tri- 
articulati; pedes secundi paris ramo interno bi-, externo tri- 
articulato; tertii et quarti paris ramo interno uni-, externo 
tri-articulato ; quinti paris rudimentarii. Sacculi ovigeri duo. 
Nauplius transversaliter ovalis, tribus paribus extremitatum 
non articulatis, brevibus instructus.” 
‘““Generic character:—The body nearly cylindrical. The 
foremost antenne eight-jointed; the posterior two-jointed, with 
short, single-jointed ramus. The mandibular palp consisting 
only of a bristle-covered knob. The maxillary palp single. The 
anterior maxillipedes furnished with two cylindrical processes ; 
the posterior powerful, with strong nipping-claws. The first 
pair of feet with strong claws, and three-jomted rami; the 
second pair of feet with the inner ramus two-, the outer three- 
jointed; the third and the fourth pairs with the inner ramus 
one-, the outer three-jointed; the fifth pair of feet rudimentary. 
Egg-sacks two. Nauplius broader than long, with three pairs of 
short, unjointed limbs.” [Translated from the Swedish.] 
Herr Foyn has now a factory at Bole, on Sorden, in addition 
to his original one at Vadsd, which was not given up, as was 
reported at the end of 1883. He possesses four steamers 
(whether all whalers or any of them tugs 1 am not sure), and 
they come in either here or to Vads0, according to whereabouts 
they have been cruising, and are not attached to either factory 
in particular. As the result of his ‘ prospecting” off Iceland in 
1883, Herr Foyn built a factory on that coast—in what part 
I do not know; just as it was finished (if my information is 
correct) an Act was passed by the Icelandic ‘‘ Thing” forbidding 
whaling on that coast, presumably for fear of that happening 
