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the vertebrae and the skull, also in the general proportions of the head, body, and tail . 

 The males do not vary much from one another: I have examined upwards of 

 one hundred of them, but as yet only in their spring appearance. The webs of the 

 feet, the caudal filament, the crests, and the dorsal ridges are probably absorbed later 

 in the year, as I judge from the degrees of development I have already seen, and es- 

 pecially from a newt of this kind I found in the bed of a pool which had been dried 

 up some days before. It occurs in company with L. punctatus, but in one ditch I 

 found it alone and in plenty, from which I have been able satisfactorily to ascertain 

 the females. A more full account will I hope before long be furnished by Mr. Bell, 

 who had specimens of the same, or a similar newt, sent to him from Devonshire seve- 

 ral years ago. It seems to occur generally round Edinburgh, as far as my walks ex- 

 tend. Yesterday (May 1st) I saw this, and no other species, during a ramble in the 

 Pentland Hills. — J. Wolley ; 3, Roxburgh Terrace, Edinburgh, May 3, 1848. 



[I trust Mr. Bell will furnish the ' Zoologist' with a name as well as description, 

 bearing in mind the admirable dictum " Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum." — 

 Edward Neivman]. 



Remarkable Instance of Voracity in a Trout. — I send you a singular instance of 

 the voracity of the trout, which you may think worth inserting in the next number of 

 the ' Zoologist.' A friend of mine, while fishing in a brook at Yoxall, in this county, 

 on the 18th of this month, caught with a spinning minnow a trout of about one pound 

 weight, in the throat of which he found a toad, that had been swallowed head first, 

 that part being already digested, while the legs still remained within its mouth. 

 Trout, in our brooks, vary much in the time of their coming into season : those in the 

 brook above-mentioned were in season when he caught the above, but in the brook 

 which runs past this place they are seldom in season until the middle of May. Can 

 this proceed from any difference in the temperature of the water, which in the latter is 

 remarkable for its coldness ? — Oswald Mosley ; Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire, April 

 26, 1848. 



Occurrence of Amphipeplia glutinosa near Norwich. — " Locally and periodically 

 abundant.'' — (Gray's Manual). I have lately taken off the Siums and other aquatic 

 plants in the river near this city, many dozen specimens, some of them exceedingly 

 fine ones, of this beautiful and interesting mollusk. — W. K. Bridgman; 69, St. Giles 

 Street. Norwich. 



Occurrence of Vanessa Antiopa at Penge, Surrey. — On Sunday, April 2nd, I saw 

 a fine Vanessa Antiopa settle in the middle of the road at Penge, about a mile from 

 Sydenham. Unfortunately I had no net with me and could not capture it. I had 

 only the pleasure of seeing it fly away and return to the same spot within a few feet of 



