7.  Squalus.  Captain King in his manuscripts observes, that a species of shark was observed commonly near the shores, having a short nose, with a very capacious mouth; the body was of an ash grey colour, marked with darker spots, of a round shape, and about two inches in diameter.  This shark was usually ten or eleven feet long.

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ANNELIDES.

1.  Leodice gigantea.  Savigny Syst. des Annel. page 49.  Lam. 5 322. 
Eunice gigantea, Cuv.  Reg.  Anim. 2 524. 
Nereis aphroditois, Pall.  Nov.  Act.  Petrop. 2 229. table 5. figure 1.7. 
Terebella aphroditois, Gmelin, Syst.  Nat. 3114.

The specimen brought by Captain King is nearly five feet long, and was procured at the Isle of France.

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ANNULOSA.

CATALOGUE OF INSECTS, COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN KING, R.N.

BY WILLIAM SHARP MACLEAY, ESQUIRE, A.M., F.L.S.

The collection consists of one hundred and ninety-two species, of which one hundred and thirty belong to the class Mandibulata, fifty-eight to Haustellata, and four to the Arachnida.  Eighty-one of the species are new, and the extent to which each order of winged insects has been collected, will be best understood from the following summary.

COLUMN 1:  MANDIBULATA. 
COLUMN 2:  HAUSTELLATA.

108 Coleoptera :  40 Lepidoptera. 8 Orthoptera :  2 Homoptera. 5 Neuroptera :  8 Hemiptera. 9 Hymenoptera :  8 Diptera.

Total 188 Species.

This number is, of course, not sufficient to allow any general remarks to be founded on the collection, and the following Catalogue is, therefore, merely descriptive.

CLASS MANDIBULATA.

Order COLEOPTERA.

1.  Panagaeus quadrimaculatus.  Oliv.  Enc.  Meth.  Hist.  Nat.

Obs.  There is a wretched figure of this insect given in the fourth volume of Cuvier’s Regne Animal.

2.  Paecilus kingii (n.s.) P. atronitidus, antennis tomentosis obscuris, basi et apice piceis, labri margine antico palpisque rufo-piceis, thorace linea media longitudinali vix marginem posticum attingente fossulaque utrinque postica, elytris striatis vix atro-aeneis tibiis ad apicem tarsisque atro-piceis.

3.  Gyrinus rufipes.  Fab.  Syst.  Eleuth. page 276. 13.

Obs.  The description of this species, as given by Fabricius is very vague; but as it applies tolerably well to the insect collected by Captain King, I have not thought proper to give it a new name.

4.  Silpha lacrymosa.  Schreiber, in Linnean Transactions 6 194. t. 20, f. 5.

5.  Creophilus erythrocephalus.  Staphylinus erythrocephalus.  Fab.  Syst.  Eleuth. 2 593. 19.

6.  Hister cyaneus.  Fab.  Syst.  Eleuth. 1 page 88. 13.

7.  Hister. speciosus.  Dej.  Cat. page 48.

8.  Passalus polyphyllus (n.s.) P. ater depressiusculus, antennis sex-lamellatis, vertice tuberculis tribus, intermedio majore compressa linearum superiorem duarum elevatarum transversarum dissecante, thoracis lateribus rufo-ciliatis, elytrorum striis lateralibus punctatis.