Notice of the Lutjanus rupestris. 167 



antennae brownish in the male, ferruginous in the female, the seta 

 in both sexes pale-yellow ; eyes dark-green, the forehead of the 

 males with a whitish play of colour ; the abdomen is convex above, 

 but flat on the under side, the incisures very faintly marked ; legs 

 pale-yellow, the thighs black ; halteres with the knob dark-brown, 

 the stalk yellow ; wings with the lower half brown, the upper half 

 vitreous. 2 lines. {Woodcut, Jig. 3.) 



Not a very scarce insect, usually found in July and August in 

 hedges and woods. It is not unfrequent in woods near London, and 

 has been noticed in many other parts of England. " Cambridge ; 

 Bath," Charles C. Babington, Esq. 



2. Pachygaster Leachii. 



Stephens's Cat Curtis, B. E. i. pi. 42. 



Body black and shining, minutely punctured ; antennae reddish, 

 (in the female,) the eyes likewise inclining to that colour during 

 life ; legs pale-yellow, the hinder thighs with a small black spot 

 near the apex ; halteres brownish ; wings entirely hyaline, with 

 pale-brown nervures. 1| lines. 



First discovered in Devonshire by Dr Leach, and subsequently 

 taken in the same county by Mr Curtis, but it appears to be rather 

 a rare species. " Near Wareham Harbour, Dorset," J. C. Dale, 

 Esq. " Madingley Wood, near Cambridge, in July," Charles C. 

 Babington, Esq. 



VI Notice of the Lutjanus rupestris of Bloch. By P. J. Seley, 



Esq. F. R. S. E., &c. PI. VI. 



After the reflux of the extraordinary high tide, so severely felt 

 along the whole of the eastern coast of the island, on the 20th 

 of February 1836, produced by the concurrent effects of a long- 

 continued southern gale and a spring tide, numbers of fish of 

 different kinds, evidences of the convulsed and unusually agitat- 

 ed state of the ocean, were, with other matters, thrown dead 

 upon the. shore far beyond the usual line of high water-mark. 

 The species which suffered most upon the northern parts of the 

 Northumberland and Berwickshire coasts, so far as I have been able 

 to ascertain, belonged to the Labridoe (Wrasses) which may be at- 

 tributed to the habits of the group, most of which affect a hard or 

 rocky bottomed sea, though I am informed that in some parts where 

 a sandy bay or soft bottom occurred, soles and other flat fish were 

 also thrown out in cousiderable numbers. The species noticed, most- 



