Notice of the Lutjanus rupestris. 167 
antennae brownish in the male, ferruginous in the female, the seta 
in both sexes pale-yellow ; eyes dark-green, the forehead of the 
males with a whitish play of colour ; the abdomen is convex above, 
but flat on the under side, the incisures very faintly marked; legs 
pale-yellow, the thighs black ; halteres with the knob dark-brown, 
the stalk yellow ; wings with the lower half brown, the upper half 
vitreous. 2 lines. {Woodcut., Jig. 3.) 
Not a very scarce insect, usually found in July and August in 
hedges and woods. It is not unfrequent in woods near London, and 
has been noticed in many other parts of England. " Cambridge ; 
Bath/' Charles C. Babingtoji, Esq. 
2. PACHYGASTER LEACHII. 
Stephens's Cat Curtis, B. E. i. pi. 42. 
Body black and shining, minutely punctured ; antennae reddish* 
(in the female,) the eyes likewise inclining to that colour during 
life ; legs pale-yellow, the hinder thighs with a small black spot 
near the apex ; halteres brownish ; wings entirely hyaline, with 
pale-brown nervures. 1| lines. 
First discovered in Devonshire by Dr Leach, and subsequently 
taken in the same county by Mr Curtis, but it appears to be rather 
a rare species. " Near Wareham Harbour, Dorset," J. C. Dale, 
Esq. " Madingley Wood, near Cambridge, in July," Charles C. 
BabingtoHj Esq. 
VI Notice of the Lutjanus rupestris of Block. By P. J[. SELBY, 
Esq. F. R. S. E., &c. PI. VI. 
AFTER the reflux of the extraordinary high tide, so severely felt 
along the whole of the eastern coast of the island, on the 20th 
of February 1836, produced by the concurrent effects of a long- 
continued southern gale and a spring tide, numbers of fish of 
different kinds, evidences of the convulsed and unusually agitat- 
ed state of the ocean, were, with other matters, thrown dead 
upon the, shore far beyond the usual line of high water-mark. 
The species which suffered most upon the northern parts of the 
Northumberland and Berwickshire coasts, so far as I have been able 
to ascertain, belonged to the Labridos (Wrasses) which may be at- 
tributed to the habits of the group, most of which affect a hard or 
rocky bottomed sea, though I am informed that in some parts where 
a sandy bay or soft bottom occurred, soles and other flat fish were 
also thrown out in considerable numbers. The species noticed, most- 
