410 Prof. E. Forbes on some Additions to the British Fauna. tex broad ; front slightly impressed : eyes of moderate size, not pro-minent : ocelli disposed in a triangle on the vertex : antennae slender, subclavate, inserted near the mouth, shorter than the thorax ; first joint long, slender, slightly curved ; second joint cyathiform ; third, fourth and fifth joints equal in size ; club 2-jointed, conical, acumi-nate, longer than the fifth joint : thorax elliptical : prothorax trans-verse, very short : scutum of the mesothorax broad ; sutures of the parapsides distinct ; axillae not complete ; scutellum obconic : meta-thorax transverse, very short : propodeon large, obconic, declining, excavated lengthwise : podeon very short : abdomen oval, smooth, depressed above, keeled beneath, much shorter and rather broader than the thorax ; the disc purple ; metapodeon occupying about one-third of the dorsum ; octoon and following segments to the telum transverse, short, nearly equal in size : legs green, slender ; tro-chanters and protibise piceous ; knees fulvous ; mesotarsi and meta-tarsi yellow, their tips piceous : wings limpid ; nervures pale yellow ; humerus rather short ; ulna longer than the humerus ; radius very short ; cubitus rather longer than the radius ; stigma very small. Alten, Finmark. LII. — Notice of some additions to the British Fauna discovered by Robert MacAndrew, Esq., during the year 1844. By Professor Edward Forbes of King's College, London. [With a Plate.] Among the many additions to the British Fauna laid before the Natural History Section of the British Association at York, some of the most interesting were exhibited by Mr. MacAndrew of Liverpool, who, though he has comparatively lately joined the ranks of Natural History, promises to do good service to British Marine Zoology. His researches have hitherto been conducted chiefly on the western coasts, especially among the Hebrides, where there is doubtless a fine field for discovery as yet but par-tially explored. He has entrusted to me the description of the following animals, which appear to be new to the natural history of our country. Mollusca. 1. Emarginula crassa, Sowerby, Min. Con. t. 33. This is the largest European species of its genus and the most beautiful. Hitherto it has been noticed only as fossil. The shell is ovate, about twice as long as high ; the apex is subcentral and acute ; the upper surface is sculptured by about forty radiating fasciculated ribs, each composed of four or five smaller ones, reticulated by close furrows of growth. The notch is broad and occupies about one-fourth of the fissural ridge, which is arched, slightly elevated, longitudinally striated and regularly and closely squamated ; the internal cavity is smooth, and presents an elevated ridge with a central groove running from the sides
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