4i4 tiiE zooLOGist. 



alive and breeding on the summits of the higher hills of Stromoe and 

 Sandoe, which we did not ascend last summer, and which are seldom 

 traversed even by the natives, except when collecting the sheep in 

 autumn ; but I am not very sanguine that such can be the case, for 

 the natives are most excellent observers, and the strange flight, to 

 them, of a covey of Ptarmigan would at once arrest attention.— H. W. 

 Feilden (Wells, Norfolk). 



moll use A. 



Spirula, Ianthina, and Velella at Lough Swilly, Co. Donegal. — 

 On October 2nd, after a spell of stormy weather from the westward, 

 I gathered a number of specimens of Velella on the shore below my 

 house. There were also four specimens of Ianthina rotundata, with 

 their floats attached, and living, and a number of the pretty little 

 horn- shaped shells of Spirula australis. The last named I have never 

 seen here before. Ianthina turns up not unfrecmently, but very 

 seldom alive. Velella (sp. ?) I have not seen here for many years. It 

 was interesting to find these three oceanic forms on a small patch of 

 sand, and I have sent specimens of each to the National Museum in 

 Dublin. The Velella appeared to be dead, though the shells were 

 perfectly fresh. I take them to be V. limbosa, though I could find no 

 trace of the characteristic fringe of tentacles. — H. C. Hart (Carrablagh, 

 Port Salon, Letterkenny). 



CRUSTACEA. 



Pycnogonida from the Sligo Coast. — Miss Warren has kindly sent 

 me the two Pycnogons recorded by Mr. Warren (p. 367) as " Nymphons." 

 One is Phoxichilus spinosus, Mont., the other Plwxichilidium femoratum, 

 Eathke. Early in the summer I received Nymphon gallicum, Hock., 

 from the same locality. — G. H. Carpenter (Science and Art Museum, 

 Dublin). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. 



October 5th, 1892. — Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. W. H. Yondale, F.R.M.S., of Cockermouth, was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Latridius nodifer feeding 

 on a fungus, Trichosporium roseum. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton sent for exhibition the male specimen of 

 Klenchus tenuicornis, Kirby, taken by him on the 22nd August last, 

 at Stoney Stoke, near Shepton Montague, Somerset, and described by 



