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Fishes — Insects, 



greeinsh black. I had iiotliing with me to measure the length of the birds, but their 

 bodies appeared no larger than a pigeon's. — Murray A. Mathews ; Raleigh^ near 

 Barnstable, September 6, 1858. 



Shark on the Coast of Sussex. — The * Sussex Express,' of August 14, states that a 

 specimen of the porbeagle shark, 6 feet 8J- inches long and 3 feet 8f inches in circum- 

 ference, was captured in Seaford Bay by the crevv of an Eastbourne mackarel boat 

 during the night of August 8. — Arthur Hussey ; Rottingdean, August, 1858. 



Occurrence of the Sunfish at Berry Head. — A specimen of the sunfish {Orthoga- 

 riscus mala) was shot this day, August 14th, by a yachtsman, about a mile oflf Berry 

 Head, the southern extremity of Torbay, and brought into Torquay, where it was 

 exhibited by two fishermen. It measured 2 feet 4J- inches in length, 3 feet 2 inches 

 between the extremities of the fins, and 14 J inches in greatest breadth, exclusive of 

 the fins. This is the second specimen of this remarkable fish captured here this sum- 

 mer. — William Pengelly, 



Additions to the Butterfly Fauna of South Wales. — I have certainly three, and I 

 believe four, more species of butterflies to add to the Fauna of South Wales, as " Area 

 6 : " — Colias Edusa, Leucophasia Sinapis, Polyommatus Agestis, and I believe P. Acis 

 too; of this latter t will not say for certain, because it is so rare and local a species, 

 but I herewith send you a very careful description, which I write with the insect before 

 nie, and from which perhaps you will be able to decide. The three first species I have 

 seen on the wing and taken this month, while on a short tour in search of health, in 

 company with a young brother of the pin and net, and it was he who took P. Acis 

 about three weeks back, and shewed it me to have my opinion upon it : I have no 

 doubt he would allow me to send it you for inspection, if you are not satisfied of its 

 identity, — I am myself, but dare not record it on my own conviction only, when the 

 female Cardamines has been mistaken for Daplidice. You will now think with me 

 that the area lately given without a representative is one of the richest, for we may 

 hardly expect P. Artaxerxes, C. Davus, P. Actaeon or E. Blandina ; and C. Hyale, P. 

 Arion, C. dispar, P. Daplidice, A. Lathonia and V. Antiopa are almost as unlikely to 

 visit us, so that we have but little that is probable to hunt for now. — Robert Drane ; 

 Cardif, August 21, 1858. 



[The description certainly applies to P. Acis. — E, 



Polyommatus Artaxerxes and Agestis. — Mr. Newman, in his observations in last 

 month's 'Zoologist' (Zool. 6211), makes it appear that I do not know the larva of 

 P. Agestis, Now, I admit that I made a mistake by sending in a hurry the wrong 

 larvte to Mr. Logan : in my haste in collecting the larva3, finding some small green 

 larvae with a purple marking, and without any examination, I sent them to Mr. Logan 

 for the young of Agestis ; but is this to go against eight years' practice and ten cor- 

 respondents who have bred the insect this season from larvse I have sent them ? I 

 will most fully atone for this error when I am on the ground again next J une. I have 

 never seen Mr. Newman's observations on this subject in the * Entomological 

 Magazine': if that gentleman wishes to break a lance with me he must take care it 



