144 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
to the end. The presence of transverse bars, having the appearance 
of being impressed or indented {vide Trans. JS’orfolk and 2^'orwicli 
Nat. Soc. vol iii. p. 584), was more apparent than in any example 
yet examined, extending over the whole of the body. It was stuffed 
by Pratt of Brighton, who reports that he found it very tough to 
skin. He says that the frontal shield was not red, but a dark 
olive colour : as far as he recollects there was no trace of a red 
garter on the tibia. Nothing was observed in this case to 
prove that these “ hairy ” varieties of the Moorhen owe their 
peculiarities to disease (/. c. p. 584). In addition to the twelve 
examples before enumerated {1. c. p. 586), three more have 
come to light besides the one just mentioned; viz., one killed 
some time ago (where, is now forgotten), in the possession of 
Dr. W. Tegetmeier, and two in the possession of Captain Bagge, 
shot at Mintlyn, near King’s Lynn, for a knowledge of which 
I am indebted to Dr. J. Lowe. Dr. Lowe informs me that they 
were shot at the same time — but when is not remembered — by a 
gamekeeper, who reported that there were others like them in the 
same brood. — J. H. Gurney, Jun. 
Norfolk Amber. Since the publication of my note on Norfolk 
Amber, Mr. A. C. Savin has placed in my hands a specimen 
containing a Spider. This was sent to the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, 
who states that it seems to be “ certainly a Latr. and 
Blackw., of the restricted genus Bathyphantes, Menge, but of no 
recognisable known species, and its specific characters are too much 
injured and concealed to permit of any satisfactory description.” — ■ 
Clement Reid. 
Cryptus pygoleucus. PezomaeJms hopei, Gr. , female, and C ryptvs 
pygoletims, Gr., male, were bred together by Mr. W. II. B. Fletcher, 
of Worthing, this spring. Finding the males of the apterous group 
of Cryptides is very difficult, and extremely interesting when they 
are detected. Consequently Pezoinaclius^wpei must be put aside, 
and in future known as the female of Crypihis pyyolemus, Gr. — 
J. B. Bridgman. 
3 0^'ri885 
