NOTES — PALEONTOLOGY, REPTILES, FISHES. 



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PALsEONTOLOG Y. 



Palseontological !N"otes from the British Museum Collec- 

 tions. — A day or two ago, when in the fossil department at the British Museum 

 in Cromwell Road, I jotted down a few notes concerning North of England 

 specimens, which it may be of interest to record. They are as follows: — 



Fishes. — Dermal tubercles of Gyracanthus, from the coal measures, New- 

 castle ; Carcharopsis prototypus Ag., Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire; Petalodus 

 hastingsice Owen, carboniferous limestone, Derbyshire ; and Janassa {Climadoxus) 

 Mnguceformis Atthey, coal measures, Newsham, near Newcastle. 



MoLLUSCA. — Astarte Levis Phil., Tellina minuscula Bean, Pholadidea con- 

 stricta Phil., Nucula cordifarmis Bean, Isoeardia angulata, Trochus antiquus, 

 Cerithium acirieatum, Trochus pulcherrimus, Panopeea speetoneusis, Nucula subro- 

 tunda, Inoceramus venusiulus, and Pinna gracilis, all from the Speeton clay, 

 Speeton, Yorkshire ; Placunopsis jurensis and Nerita costulata Desh. , from Scar- 

 borough ; ' Jurbo' mancuniensis Brown, Manchester ; Area tu?nida Sby. , 

 A. speluncaria Schl., and A. striata Schl., all three from Durham ; Axinus trun- 

 eatus King, Durham and Manchester ; Mytilus squamosus, Sby. , Durham ; Rissoa 

 gibsoni Br., Manchester ; and Rhynchonella acuminata var. plicatu la Dav. , Derby- 

 shire. 



Echinodermata. — Ophioderma milleri Phill.j lias, Robin Hood's Bay, York- 

 shire, and from Staithes, Yorkshire ; and Platyerinus mega stylus Ph., Lancashire. 

 — Theo. D. A. Cockerell, London, December 31st, 1885. 



REPTILES. 



Reptiles Of Warrington District.— We have been favoured with 

 reprints of two papers — one on British Snakes and another on British Lizards — 

 by Mr. Linnaeus Greening, which have been read by him at a meeting of the 

 Warrington Field Club. The papers are of an exhaustive character, and, among 

 other things, include some local notes, which we judge will be of sufficient interest 

 to our readers for reproduction here. 



The Viper (Pelias berus) is spoken of as being found in Delamere Forest, 

 'Cheshire, where it is apparently not uncommon. 



The Ring Snake ( Tropidonotus natrix) is found round about Warrington, Harford 

 being a place where Mr. Greening has seen it frequently. 



The Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) is common on the sandhills at Southport, and 

 report has it that it was once common on the Overton hills, though, so far as 

 Mr. Greening knows, it has not been found there within the last fifteen years. 



The Common or Viviparous Lizard {Zootoca vivipara) occurs locally in the 

 neighbourhood of Birkenhead and Liverpool, also at Weston (Cheshire), where 

 they are known as ' Swifts,' and are to be found in the cuttings running down from 

 the quarries to the river. 



The Slow-worm (Auguis fragilis) is reported to have been found locally in the 

 Frodsham district. It is not uncommon in Mid -Cheshire, and is often found by 

 the platelayers on the railway between Knutsford and Chester. 



FISHES. 



Whitby Fish-notes. — Three Grey Mullets were caught in the salmon nets 

 off Whitby, 12th August last.— Thos. Stephenson, Whitby, 25th September, 1885. 



G-OOle Fish-notes. — The Salmon-fishery here has been very good this 

 season. Several Sturgeons {Acipenscr sturio) have been taken, also an Angler- 

 fish {Lophius piscatorius), and some Shad {Chipea alosa), or as they are called here, 

 Scad. — Thomas Bunker, Goole, September 2nd, 1885. 



Vendace and Gwiniad in the English Lakes.— At the Zoo- 

 logical Society, 19th May. 1885. Mr. Francis Day exhibited a specimen of the Vendace 

 {Coregonus vandesius) which, he observed, was one of three received from Mr. W. 

 Kimsey Dover that had been taken in Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lakes, 

 where Dr. Davy had recorded their occurrence in 1858, but whose statement had 

 been generally overlooked. Mr. Day also remarked that the Gwiniad ( C. corego- 

 noides) would seem to be restricted in the Lake District to Haweswater and the 

 lake system that joins the Eden. 



March 1886. . c. 



