FLYING-FISH OFF WHITBY. 
THOS. STEPHENSON, 
Whitby. 
I Have great pleasure in recording what I take to be not only a 
rarity but an addition to the Fauna of Yorkshire. 
On the 28th July, was picked up on the Scarr near to and on 
the South side of the East Pier, by a young man named Holmes, 
Museum ; it appears to me, from the length of the ventral fins, to 
be a young specimen of the Greater Flying-fish (Exocetus exiliens). 
The following are the dimensions, etc., as nearly as I could ascertain, 
the fins being unfortunately more of less damaged. 
mag from snout to extremity of caudal fin, rather over 
o inches. 
Reape of each pectoral fin Woes is crossed bY a beautiful 
light coloured bar), 5 inc 
Length of pectoral fins from ee to tip, 102 inches. 
Length of each ventral fin, is ae 
Length of dorsal fin, 14 in 
Length of longest spine of sae fin, 1} inches. 
Anal fin damaged. 
Length of caudal fin (damaged), lower fork about 1? inches ; 
if perfect would have been about 2 inches. 
This is the first specimen of Flying-fish I have heard of either 
being found or seen at or near Whitby or even on the North-East 
Coast, and so, I think, an addition to the Yorkshire fauna, for on 
reference to Clarke an oebuck’s Handbook of Yorkshire 
Vertebrata I neither find a single record of its capture on the 
Yorkshire Coast nor is this fish entered in the Index. 
NOTE—COLEOPTERA. 
An addi to the Yorkshire Hydropori.—On the occasion as 
visit to pores last ig bee I took two or three specimens of a Hyd: ne = 
tag ee to be t eH. sage peg Sharp. I indicated the locality to 
Mr. M. L. Thompson, a that place, and he has secured a nice series of the insect. 
It ney a mmon 4, palustris, but its larger size and much more a 
appearance dily “distinguish it, even without a magnifier.—W. C. Hey 
94. 
West Ayton, Aven 5 
Sept. 1894. 
