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had all given ourselves up for the night. I had begun to look 

 out for a rock that would afford the most shelter, and for myself 

 would not have cared. But my companion was toiling a few 

 paces behind ; and she, as 1 afterwards found, had already calcu- 

 lated her strength to keep walking about till dawn, rather than 

 sit down or recline anywhere in the damp and cold, now heavily 

 falling around, and had made up her mind to it. A night 

 upon the mountains may be something to talk about ; it is 

 another thing to endure. And when we have needlessly 

 exposed ourselves to peril of any kind, thoughts of distant 

 home, and children, and friends, will rise up with painful 

 retribution. We had not spoken a word for some time, but 

 kept moving on. We turned one more enormous projecting 

 rock, and suddenly, behold, down, far down in the very depths 

 of the silent gloom, was the gleam of distant lights ! " Thank 

 God !" fervently exclaimed our guide 



Art. XVI. — Entomological Notes. By Edward Newman. 



[Continued from Vol, III. p. 501.) 



Class. — Coleoptera. 



Natural Order. — Cetoniites, Newman. 



Genus. — Cetonia, Fabricius. 



Ceto. Numisma. j^neo-nigra, subtus Icetior : prothorace, ely- 

 trisque punctis, calceo equi simillhnis, impressis : capite, jwo- 

 thoracisque marginibus maculaque singulo angulo posteriori, 

 elytrorum lineis interruptis numerosis, abdominis lateribus, 

 podiceque toto, vestimento cinereo tectis. (Corp. long. *9 unc. ; 

 lat. '5 unc.) 



Black, with a tint of metallic green ; this tint is more ohservablc on 

 the under than the upper side : the thorax and elytra are im- 

 pressed with numerous marks, bearing, especially on the elytra, 

 an exact resemblance of a horse-shoe ; this mark is not peculiar 

 to this species, various others, as C. aurata, C. affinis, C. obscura. 

 Sec. possessing it, though in a less obvious degree. There is, on 



