822 General Notes, [September, 
in Friuli, and has been found in the Istrian peninsula, in a stream 
of water running through the gallery of a lignite mine excavated 
in cretaceous strata. Nature states that a very large Ascension 
turtle which recently died at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
London, had existed without food for more than two months, and 
contained 100 eggs, the retention of which was the probable 
cause of death. Mr. W. A. Carter, of the fisheries section of 
the same Exhibition; placed some small tortoises, 114’ long, of 
what kind is not stated, along with some frogs of about the same 
dimensions. The tortoises at once attacked the frogs, and bit 
pieces from the legs, repeating the operation afterwards. 
Fishes—D. Vinciguerra (Ann. d. Mus. Civ. d. St. Nat. Gen, 
1882-83) describes the fresh-water fishes brought by the Italian 
Expedition to Equatorial Africa (Shoa), two of which, one ot 
Haplochilus and one of Discognathus, are new. The annals 
of the Genoa Civic Museum of Natural History (1882-83) contain 
an account of the ichthyological results of the cruises of the 
Violante in 1877 and 1880. The total number of species taken 
was 119, of which probably three, and certainly two, are new. 
These are Godius vittatus Vinciguerra, taken on the north-east of 
Sardinia ; Blennius nigriceps, taken near the island of Brazza, and 
a doubtful Exocetus. Sr. Vinciguerra describes in the same 
volume the ichthyological results of the cruise of the Corsair 
around Madeira, Arnecife, Teneriffe and the Canaries. Only 
six of the thirty-five species do not occur in the Mediterranean. 
Crustacea —Mr. S. I. Smith (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., March) 
gives an account of the Decapoda dredged by-the Albatross m 
1883-85 from depths above 1000 fathoms. Of the forty-four 
species twenty-one inhabit the bottom or its immediate neighbor- 
they are not truly abyssal. Parapagurus pulosimanus has bee 
edged at various depths from 250 to 222I fathoms, In the 
shallower depths it inhabits the carcincecia of Epizoanthus pa 
guriphilus, but in more abyssal localities some tenant the apne” 
made by Æ. abyssorum, others naked gastropod shells, and st 
others an actinian polyp, apparently Urticina consors Vet 
The abyssal Decapoda are among the largest of thei f 
groups. Geryon guinguidens is one of the largest brachyurans, 
Lithodes agassizii measures three feet across the outstretched legs, 
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rostrata are the largest known Galatheidæ ; Sabinea princeps A 
~ probably the largest Crangonid, and two Penæidæ are abo 
_ foot in length. e 
-Echinoderms —M,. Perrier has again attacked the so-call 
