2930 Crustacea — Insects. 



that the Spanish mackerel " is in no estimation as food." — Arthur Hussey ; Rolling- 

 dean, September 23, 1850. 



Note on British Crustacea. — As you seem interested in records of the occurrence of 

 rare Crustacea on our coast, I may mention that the late Mr. Dixon, of Worthing, 

 told me be had more than once seen the Dromia brought by fishermen to Worthing. 

 The first record of its being met with as a British species is in the ' Zoological 

 Journal,' vol. i. p. 419. " Zoological Club of the Linnean Society, Juue 22nd, 1824 ; 

 The secretary exhibited two specimens of Dromia mediterranea of Leach, which were 

 communicated to him by Mr. J. E. Gray, for the information of the Club. These 

 specimens were found in Billingsgate market by that gentleman, among some oysters, 

 which were stated to have come from Whitstable Bay, on the Essex coast." With re- 

 ference to Crustacea, as I am on the subject, it may be worth recording that we have 

 a specimen of Squilla Desmarestii, which there is every reason for believing to be 

 British. The occurrence of Professor Bell's fine genus and species Calocaris Macan- 

 dreae, off the Scottish coast, and of so large and fine a form as Geryon tridens of 

 Kroyer, on the Norway coast, shows that large and remarkable species are still to be 

 met with in the northern seas. While the dredgings of Mr. Thompson, of Belfast, 

 those of Mr. Macandrew, and the published labours of Dr. Baird, Dr. Johnston, and 

 Mr. Henry Goodsir among the more neglected orders, show that when attention has 

 been attracted to them and notices and figures published, our Crustacean Fauna may 

 be indefinitely extended. Professor Bell's work, when finished, will give quite a sti- 

 mulus to the study, just as Dr. Baird's admirable volume on the Entomastraca (Ray 

 Society) has done to these " minims for the microscope," and interesting fish-parasites. 

 If our friends in Shetland and Scotland would exert themselves and visit fishermen's 

 boats, some treasures already recorded as northern, by Kroyer, will assuredly be met 

 with. — Adam White; British Museum, September, 1850. 



Occurrence of the Larva of Acherontia Atropos at Stafford. — Last month I ob- 

 tained two full-grown caterpillars of the death's-head moth from a potato-field, near 

 the Stafford Railway Station : four others have since been taken in different places, 

 close to the town. I have not heard of its occurrence here since it was so abundant 

 over the greater part of the country in the year 1846. — Robert C. Douglas ; Fore- 

 bridge, Stafford, September 13, 1850. 



[I have records of the occurrence of this larva near Liverpool. — E. iV.]. 



Occurrence of Deilephila Porcellus at Newmarket. — On the 13th of July, while 

 staying in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, I captured a very fine male specimen of 

 this rare moth, at rest upon a grassy bank, not far from the race-course. I also took 

 sevaral specimens of Pamphila Comma; then appearing in profusion. — Robert Mar- 

 ris ; Lynn Road, Wisbeach, September 16, 1850. 



Occurrence of Deilephila Euphorbia. — In reply to your inquiry (Zool. 2898) 

 respecting the larva of Deilephila Euphorbia?, I may state that I found it in a tuft of 



