368 Miscellanea Zoologica. 



hind into a short line ; eyes with an indistinct arched band near the 

 inner side ; abdomen marked with four series of dark brown spots ; 

 thighs entirely grey. 5§-7 lines. 



One of the most common species inhabiting this country ; it is 

 scarce, however, in Scotland. " Common in Cambridgeshire," 

 Rev. Leonard Jenyns. 



Tabanus fulvus. 

 Meig. Zwei. ii. 61 — Tab. alpinus, Shrank, Fauna Boica ; Curtis Brit. Ent. ii. 

 7-8, $ — Tab. sanguisorba, Harris' Expos, pi. vii. fig. 3. 

 About the size of the preceding or a little larger, brown, the 

 whole body densely clothed with golden-yellow hairs ; palpi and 

 hypostome ochreous, inclining to pale grey ; forehead of the fe- 

 male yellow, with a minute black spot near the middle ; antennae 

 entirely ferruginous ; eyes greenish, darker on the under side ; tho- 

 rax and abdomen dusky brown covered with thick-set shining gold- 

 en -yellow hairs, the abdomen with a fulvous spot on each side, ex- 

 tending from the first segment to the posterior margin of the third ; 

 under side of the abdomen greyish-yellow ; legs fulvous ; anterior 

 tarsi and apex of the tibia? black, posterior tarsi dusky towards the 

 extremity ; halteres ochreous : wings yellow at the base and anteri- 

 or margin, the sub-marginal cell with a rudimentary nerve. 6|-7- 

 (Woodcut, Fig. 3.) 



Has not been frequently noticed in this country, but as it is rather 

 common in the northern parts of France, it may yet be found in 

 some plenty. " Two females were taken last autumn (1825) by 

 Captain Blomer near Bideford, North Devon." — Curtis, I. c. " Nor- 

 wich," J. L. Brown, Esq. 



( To be continued.} 



VII. — Miscellanea Zoologica. By George Johnston, M. D. 



Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 



" Si Commentariolos spectes, pro viribus egisse me Lectori facile persuade- 

 bo. Nee laborem huncce meum defectibus laborare negabo. Modo ad augmen- 

 tum Sciential naturalis quaedam notatu non indigna neque lectu injucunda con- 



tulisse dicar. Et hac ni fallor gloriola me exuet nemo Descripsi quaedam, 



et in posterum describam, apud auctores jam obvia, vel quia leviter adtigerunt 

 illi, vel quod nova addenda babeo. Incognitarum tamen rerum pars major 

 erit. Et in istis etiam qua?, nota prius, retracto, fere sine eorum quee apud 

 alios occurrunt repetitione, nisi ea ad rem necessaria sit, ago." — Pallas, Misc. 

 Zool. prof. vs.. 



L — An attempt to ascertain the British Pycnogonidce. 



The resemblance which the individuals of this family have to the 

 long-legged or " shepherd" spiders (PhalangiumJ led the earlier na- 



