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340 notorious in the case of the White Goby, Latrunculus alba, which appeared some few years ago. I obtained a specimen and put a premium on others, but the smacks-boys then obtained such a quantity that I was compelled for financial reasons to withdraw my offer.

—An extraordinarily large specimen of this fish was brought into Yarmouth on June 3rd. Its weight I estimated at 1 cwt.

—On June 15th I secured the first—out of the thousands I have seen—concolorous variety of the Mackerel, Scomber scomber; length 15 inches, The back was of a deep blue-black colour without a single dot or stripe. I sent it to the Norwich Museum.

—Some of these fish, Clupea pilchardus, was taken here on June 23rd.— (Ibis House, Great Yarmouth).

Meristic Variation in the Edible Crab.—On May 29th I received from one of the stall-keepers—who recognise me as a general repository for all kinds of monstrosities—a strangely malformed claw of the Edible Crab, Cancer pagurus.

It had three points, but I am sorry to say the under half of the pincer had not been preserved.— (Ibis House, Great Yarmouth).

[Bateson has already given illustrations of variations in the chelæ of this species, but with none of these does the above agree.—]

The Scutellated Star-fish.—At p. 170 Mr. James Sutton recorded the occurrence at Lindisfarne of a species of Starfish he identified as Asterias tessellata, considered as a synonym of Pentagonaster granularis, Retzius.Mr. Watson has since obligingly submitted this specimen to the examination of Prof. Jeffrey Bell, who reports it as Hippasterias phrygiana, not uncommon on the eastern coasts. Mr. Watson, however, states that such is not his experience on his part of the coast—