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IX. — Miscellaneous Notices and Observations. 



Note on the Glow-ivorm. — Being out last night (June 10th) 

 about ten o'clock, in a wood on the banks of the Derwent, I was 

 much pleased to meet with females of the Glow-worm {Lampyris 

 fioctiluca) in some numbers. They were displaying their lights 

 most vigorously amongst the herbage by a road- side leading 

 through a wood, and were confined to a space of about twenty 

 yards in length. I put four or five into a small bottle which 

 they quite illuminated for some hours ; but on looking at them 

 this morning I found they were all dead : they were resting on 

 what appeared to be Centaxirea nigra. This insect has never 

 been noticed in abundance in our district. 



In 1846 some specimens were obtained by the late Mr. W. 

 K. Loftus, a few miles east of the same locality. 

 — Thomas Thompson, Winlaton, June 11th, 1868. 



Notes on local Fishes. — With regard to the under jaw of the 

 Lophius piscatorius, which I presented last spring to the New- 

 castle Museum, through the Eev. Mr. Wheeler, and about which 

 I had some difficulty. I think it well, to remove all doubts 

 concerning its identity, to refer you to Owen's beautiful work 

 on Odontography, where, at plate 56, Vol. II., fig. 1, it is excel- 

 lently represented ; and if I had known of it at first it would 

 have saved me much trouble. It and the teeth are well de- 

 scribed by Owen, Vol. I., p. 152. The individual to which the 

 jaw and rows of sharp canine teeth belonged must have been 

 one of very great and unusual size. 



I saw this summer, at Hartlepool, several specimens of the 

 Lophius, but none longer than eighteen or nineteen inches, and 

 the jaws not to be compared with that large one. 



Of other fishes which I noticed this summer at Seaton, were 

 only several " Kock Herrings," or Twaites, with minute teeth 

 {Cliqjea Jinta of Cuvier). I tasted one boiled, but I did not 

 much like it : it had rather a strong taste, somewhat resembHng 

 that of the common Herring, but not so good. The weight was 

 scarcely two pounds ; length to centre of the tail, 8-| inches ; 



