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Crustacea — Insects. 



ing the flesh out of the skin ; hut all the fishermen I have spoken with on the subject 

 decidedly affirm that he flays, or, as one of them quaintly expressed it, " He peels 

 them like a potato." — Id. 



Note on the Lord Fish. — In Mr. Yarrell's work on the ' British Fishes,' under the 

 head of the common cod, there is described and figured what appears to be a deformed 

 variety of the cod, which Mr. Yarrell obtained from the mouth of the Thames, where 

 it was called by the fishermen a " Lord-fish." A few days since, a fisherman at this 

 place brought me a codling, about fifteen and a half inches in length, and of a de- 

 formed appearance, and which he called a "Lord." On comparing this specimen with 

 Mr. Yarrell's figure of the Lord-fish, I found it to agree exactly ; hut on reference 

 to the description, I found a difference in the number of the fin-rays, those in my spe- 

 cimen being D. 11, 15, 16: P. 19: V. 7: A. 17, 16: C. 34. The name of " Lord " 

 applied to these fish is probably derived from the notion (which I have no doubt is a 

 correct one) of their beifig deformed examples of the common cod, the same terra be- 

 ing often vulgarly applied to a hump-backed person, and the appearance of the fish 

 suggesting the idea of an individual so afflicted. — J. H. Gurney ; Lowestoft, May 23, 

 1851. 



List of Crustacea taken at Weymouth, on the Dorset Coast, from March, 1850, to 



March, 1851. 



Stenorhynchus Phalangium 

 „ tenuirostris 



Inachus Dorsettensis 

 „ Dorynchus 

 Pisa tetraodon 

 Hyas araneus 



„ coarctatus 

 Maia squinado 

 Eurynome aspera 

 Cancer pagurus 

 Pilumnus hirtellus 

 Carcinus mamas 

 Portumnus variegatus 

 Portunus puber 



Portunus arcuatus 

 „ depurator 



„ pusillus 



Pinnotheres pisum 

 Gonoplax angulata 

 Ebalia Pennantii 



„ Bryerii 

 Atelecychus heterodon 

 Corystes Cassivelaunus 

 Pagurus Bernhardus 

 „ Prideauxii 

 „ cuanensis 

 „ laevis 

 Porcellana plutycheles 



Porcellana longicornis 

 Galathea squamifera 



„ strigosa 

 Palinurus vulgaris 

 Gebia deltura 

 Axius Stirynchus 

 Homarus vulgaris 

 Crangon vulgaris 

 „ fasciatus 

 „ trispinosus 

 Athanas rubescens 

 Hippolvte varians 

 Cianehii 



William Thompson, Weymouth. 



Occurrence of Notodonta trepida in Radnorshire. — I had the other day the pleasure 

 of breeding a beautiful female specimen of Notodonta trepida, from a chrysalis found 

 under oak by my brother in Radnorshire. A male specimen of N. Dodouea, from the 

 same locality, emerged about the same time, but unfortunately injured itself so much 

 before it was found, as to be utterly useless. — II. Harper Crewe ; Breadsall Rectory, 

 Derbysh ire, May 3, 1 85 1 . 



Descriptions of Larva of Sjiliingida, tvith Occasional Notes on some of the Rarer 

 European Species. — Deilephila Alcctoand crcticaarc becoming very scarce on the con- 



