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ascending from the sea. But the result of my enquiries was that I could 
never hear of any being taken, either in the river Laune, or in the salt 
water. They are captured in numbers, and of various sizes according to 
the season of the year, always small, up to about Herring size; and I am 
now inclined to believe that these small Shads are resident in the Lake of 
Killarney, as in some of the Italian lakes. If this surmise is correct, we 
have here an instance of a land-locked Shad, resident and breeding in fresh 
water, perhaps an incipient species—A..G. More (92, Leinster Road, 
Dublin). 
New British Fishes.—At a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, 
Dr. Giinther exhibited and made remarks on some fishes which had been 
taken on the west coast of Scotland by Mr. John Murray, and which were 
not previously known to occur in British waters. They were Cottus 
Lilfjeborgii (Colett), Triglops Murrayi (sp. n.), Gadus E’smarckii (Nilsson), 
Onus Reinhardti (Colett), Hierasper acus (Briinnich), Stomias ferox (Rein- 
hardt), and Scopelus scoticus (sp. n.). He also exhibited a specimen of 
Lichia vadigo (Risso), known previously only from the Mediterranean and 
‘Madeira, and which was taken in September last by Capt. MacDonald, off 
Waternish Point, Isle of Skye. 
Hybrid between Roach and Bleak.—At the same meeting of the 
Zoological Society, Dr. Giinther exhibited a hybrid between the Roach, 
Luciscus rutilus, and the Bleak, Alburnus alburnus, which had been taken 
in the river Nene, Northamptonshire, and forwarded by Lord Lilford. 
PROTRACHEATA. 
Peripatus in Victoria.—In ‘The Zoologist’ for February, 1888 
(p. 69) we published a letter from Mr. A. Sidney Olliff, of the Australian 
Museum, Sydney, announcing his discovery of Peripatus (presumably 
PeP. Leuckhartii) in New South Wales, on a tributary of the Hunter River, 
about 120 miles from the coast. Mr. Arthur Dendy, formerly of the 
British Museum (Nat. Hist.), but now of the University of Melbourne, 
writes to say that in December last, while exploring a fern-tree gully 
at Warburton, on the Upper Yarra, Victoria, he found two specimens of 
Peripatus, believed to belong to a new and very beautiful species. He is 
not yet certain whether it is identical with the Peripatus recorded by Mr. 
Pletcher, from Victoria (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. ii. parti. (1887), 
see ‘ Zoologist,’ 1888, p. 69), but can only state at present, that if 
Mr. Fletcher's species be P. Leuckhartii, the newly acquired specimens do 
“not agree with the description of that species published by Prof. Sedgwick, 
in his Monograph of. Peripatus, printed in the ‘ Quarterly Journal of 
Microscopical Science.’ 
