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quite unknown to me, and of course is not included in any of the books on 

 British Fishes ; but being in Edinburgh last August, Mr. Eagle Clarke 

 gave me a copy of a paper which he had contributed to the Royal Physical 

 Society on the occurrence of Scorpana dactyloptera on the Yorkshire coast, 

 and I at once suspected that I had blundered in naming the Norfolk fish, 

 which upon re-examination I found to be the case; but to prevent any 

 possibility of further mistake, I sent the specimen to Mr. Clarke, who was 

 good enough to confirm me in this respect. Of course, the occurrence of 

 this species is of much greater interest than that of Sebastes, but neverthe- 

 less I regret the error. Fortunately it was only recorded in the ■ Trans- 

 actions ' of the Norfolk Naturalists' Society, and if those who possess 

 Dr. Lowe's list will kindly correct the name little harm will be done, pro- 

 vided that gentlemen will forgive my having misled him. — T. Southwell 

 (Norwich). 



The Bergylt off Whitehaven.— Iu August last my friend Dr. I'Anson, 

 of Whitehaven, asked me to come and identify a fish, which he thought 

 might probably prove to be a specimen of the Bergylt (Sebastes norwegicus). 

 I accordingly went over to Whitehaven to see it, and was glad to be able to 

 confirm its identification. It was caught off the Whitehaven coast at the 

 beginning of August last, and is the first specimen that I have seen in the 

 N.W. of England. — H. A. Macpherson (Carlisle). 



[The Bergylt, or " Norwegian Haddock," as it is inappropriately called 

 by the Aberdeen fishermen, for it has very little resemblance to the Cod- 

 like fishes, is common enough on the Norwegian coast, and ranges north- 

 ward to Greenland, but is not often recognised on the east of Scotland and 

 Englaud, and is still rarer on our western, or rather north-western, shores. 

 The figure given by Couch in his ' Fishes of the British Islands ' (vol. ii. 

 pi. lviii.) gives a good idea of its form, though the colour is too brown. 

 When fresh out of the water it is red, darkest on the back, paler on the 

 sides, and the belly white. — Ed.] 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. 



October 3rd, 1894. — The Right Honble. Lord Walsingham, M.A., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. Alick Marshall, of Bexley, Kent, was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited specimens of a sand-flea, chigoe or 

 nigua, received from Mr. Szigetvary, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, 

 China, who had found them in the ears of sewer-rats trapped at Ningpo. 

 Mr. Blandford stated that the species was allied to, but not perhaps identical 



