NOTES AND QUERIES. 439 
The young of the Garfish.—Early in September last, Mr. M. Dunn, 
of Mevagissey, was kind enough to send me several specimens of a very 
small fish from shoals abounding in Mevagissey Bay, and which he identified 
as the young Garfish, Belone vulgaris, Yarrell (‘‘ Gerrick” in West Corn- 
wall). The specimens sent varied from half an inch, to an inch and a half 
in length, over lower jaw and all. The first point which attracted my 
attention was that the mandible of the upper jaw was normal, ending just 
in front of the maxillaries, whilst the mandible of the lower jaw was pro- 
jected to about one half of the length of the fish. This peculiarity precisely 
coincides with that on which Couch persuaded Yarrell to declare a specimen 
to be the European Hemiramphus (H. longirostris), but Mr. Dunn, in 
1880 (‘ Land and Water,’ Sept.), pointed out the probable error. I am now 
able to confirm Mr. Dunn’s opinion, by saying that in all the larger 
specimens which he sent me I detected the green back-bone, which is 
characteristic of the Garfish. I think our joint observations may have 
disposed of the “ Half-beak” Fish, in which Yarrel]l apparently had no faith, 
but the plentiful occurrence during the last summer of large shoals of very 
small fish (locally known as “bait” or ‘‘ fry”) of all sorts, including shoals 
of this immature Garfish, may account for an unusual incidence of Sharks 
which feed on very small prey.—Tuomas CornisH (Penzance). 
MOLLUSCA. 
The Mollusca of Kent, Surrey, and Middlesex.i—The following 
important localities were accidentally omitted on pp. 881—383 :—Pupa 
secale, Sudbury, near Harrow (J. E. Harting), Mickleham (Cooper); Vertigo 
pusilla, Sandwich (Montagu) ; dzeca tridens, one near Fulham (A. F’. Shep- 
pard) ; Acme lineata, quarry near Wildernesse, Kent (Smith); and on p. 302 
may be added Limaa maximus var. Ferussaci, Sutton, Surrey (T.G. Fenn). 
This and New Quay (p. 389) appear to be the only ascertained South of 
England localities for this very striking variety—T. D. A. CockeRELn 
(Bedford Park). 
Notes on some Calvados Mollusca.—My friend Mr. G. F. Payn, who 
last year visited Switzerland (p. 267), has this year been collecting for 
me in the North of France, and has sent me twenty-seven species from 
the neighbourhood of Cabourg-sur-Mer, Calvados. ‘he list includes the 
following species :—Cardium norvegicum, Macra solida, Pholas candidus, 
Solen pellucidus, Cardium tuberculatum, Pecten maximus, P. varius var. 
(dark brown mottled with reddish), Cardiwm edule, Donazx vittatus, Trochus 
magus, Natica catena, Scalaria communis, and Sepia sp.? (a fragment). It 
is very interesting to compare this list with those of the opposite shores of 
England. All the above, except three, are found all along the south coast 
in suitable localities, and are included in the Kentish fauna. But Trochus 
magus does not venture through the straits of Dover; Cardiwm tuberculatum 
