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Pagurus Itevis, Thompson. 



This small Hermit Crab may be distinguished by its shining 

 carapace, the anterior margin of which is waved ; the peduncles 

 are stout; and tbe superior legs are as usual unequal, slightly 

 granulated, and armed with small serrations on the inner margin 

 of the forceps. 



The colour of the animal is dull yellow, with markings of a 

 bright brick-red on the forceps. 



Pagurus Itevis has been recorded from Shetland, Galway, 

 Moray Firth, Northumberland, Portaferry, and Falmouth. We 

 have obtained it from Guernsey, where it was found to inhabit 

 the shells of Natica, Murex, Dentalium, &c, and also from Torbay. 



"Its ova is black" (no doubt when mature, as is generally 

 the case in Crustacea). 



(To be continued.) 



OCCASIONAL NOTES. 



Otters taken in a Bow-net. — It occasionally happens that Otters 

 enter the bow-nets set for Tench, in pursuit of the captive fish, and being 

 unable to extricate themselves are drowned. Two full-grown Otters, male 

 and female, were thus found dead in a bow-net on one of the Norfolk 

 Broads, on the 29th August last. — T. Southwell (Norwich). 



Nesting of the Woodcock.— Two nests of this bird have come under 

 my observation — one at Glengarriff, Co. Cork, in 1878 ; the other found by 

 me in the Curraghmore Woods in May last, as mentioned by Mr. Ussher 

 (anted, p. 307). In the former nest there were, I believe, four eggs; two of 

 these hatched, and the other two were given to me for my collection ; both 

 were addled. The second nest contained three eggs, all of which, as pre- 

 viously recorded, were found to be addled when blown. Is it not stranoe 

 that two out of four in one case, and the entire batch of eggs in the other, 

 should have proved addled ? Although collecting birds' eggs for some years, 

 I may say that I have very seldom come across addled eggs. The only 

 instance I can remember at present was in a nest of the Hooded Crow, in 

 which — out of a clutch of five eggs — one was addled. Perhaps other 

 observers would give their experience on this point. — William W. 

 Flkmyno (Portlaw, Co. Waterford). 



