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Star-fish was numerous. There was also a very handsome 

 species of Echinus. There was not a single phsenogamous 

 plant,— but one moss, one striped coralloid lichen, and a few- 

 uninteresting sea-weeds. The climate is excessively cold, and 

 the ground covered with ice and snow even in summer. 



From Deception Island, Captain Foster returned northward 

 to Cape Horn and Hermite Island. Here no mammalious 

 animals were noticed ; there were no penguins, and but few 

 other birds, and very few fish. 



The little Chanticleer now shaped her course across the 

 Atlantic, and reached the Cape of Good Hope on the 27th of 

 June, having performed the passage in twenty-seven days ; a 

 great number of birds, particularly the graceful and elegant 

 pintadoes, accompanied her throughout the passage. In 

 Mossel Bay, our author was struck with the variety of shells, 

 and the beauty of some of them, particularly that of the paper 

 Nautilus. He also mentions the following genera : Haliotis, 

 Trochus, Buccinum, and Pliolas. 



Art. LI. — Proceedings of the Entomological Societg of 

 London. 



Sitting of the 2cl of January, 1837. 

 Rev. F. W. Hope in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Raddon exhibited a drawing of the turnip leaf, with 

 two Lepidopterous ova deposited thereon, which had been 

 reared, and turned out to be, the one Leucophasia sinapis, and 

 the other Plusia gamma. He stated, that a friend of his had 

 discovered the undoubted larva of the turnip fly, feeding be- 

 tween the Epidermis and Parenchyma of the leaf, which 

 obscure habit rendered it so difficult of detection. He hoped 

 to be able to forward to the Society more complete information, 

 in detail, from his friend, than he was then in possession of. 

 He exhibited a series of phials containing various foreign 

 larvae, &c., found in turpentine, and extracted therefrom by 



