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viscid ligatures, but in long strings instead of in bunches — in this 

 respect resembling the foregoing species. 



Portumnus latipes is by no means a common species, and, 

 owing to its habit of burrowing, its exuviated shell is mox-e 

 frequently found than the living animal. We have obtained 

 these casts from the Channel Islands, and when at Boulogne, 

 in June of this year, we found a great number of them, very 

 small in size, scattered over the broad reach of sand on the 

 coast there. In May of this j r ear we obtained about a score of 

 living specimens, taken in one haul of a seine-net, at Shoreham. 

 One female was with exuded ova, and others with ova not exuded. 

 Carapaces only have been recorded from sandy ground at St. 

 Andrews and Galway ; at Dublin it has been washed up after 

 gales ; from South Devon, rare ; and from other localities cara- 

 paces only are recorded, thus bearing out the idea that it is owing 

 to its habits of life that it is apparently rare, and not often seen 



alive. 



(To be continued.) 



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Thk Beaver in Scandinavia. — In continuation of ray notes on 

 the Beaver in Norway, which appeared in ' The Zoologist ' last year, I have 

 now to add that I cauuot hear of so much as one individual of this species 

 in Sweden, though I visited last autumn the two neighbourhoods in which 

 I had had reason to suppose it likely that some few might still remain. I 

 came down the whole length of the Tome River from Naimakka (passing on 

 the way the late Mr. J. Wolley's collecting grounds), and could not learn 

 that any Beaver had been heard of in the neighbourhood of that river for 

 about thirty years, which is the most definite information I could obtain. 

 I think this, however, leaves very little room to doubt that they are extinct 

 thereabouts, for a Beaver is not an animal that hides its light under 

 a bushel. The man (a Quau, or Finn), who gave me this information, 

 knows the animal, for he used to see them up to about the time mentioned, 

 but said that they used to be in the smali streams, and never in the big 

 river. I returned westwards, via the Stor Sjon, a locality I had had great 

 hopes of, as the majority of people whom I have questioned on the subject 

 in any part of Sweden referred me to Jemtland ; and Lilljeborg mentions 

 the Stor Sjon as being a possible locality. I was here again assured that it 

 was years since any bad been heard of thereabouts, and that they had 

 existed most recently in the Fjeld districts, and not down in the lake. 



