392 THE NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW. 



wine is of good quality, some of the better sort being really excellent. 

 Tbere is a considerable export of it, and a large quantity is distilled to 

 yield brandy. The olive is not indigenous, but is cultivated every- 

 where up to 4000 feet. It grows even on poor and barren soil, but 

 succeeds much better near springs. It is the most useful tree to 

 the inhabitants, yielding the only article of food which the poorer 

 classes add to their bread, especially at the often recurring fast- 

 times. It supplies also the only oil used for burning. 



On the subject of the Zoology of the island we find a few obser- 

 vations scattered through the body of the work, and there is at the 

 end a list of all the animals collected. The number of mammals 

 contained in the list is very small. Besides the common domesticated 

 animals, namely, the buffalo and common cattle, the sheep, goat, 

 horse, mule and ass, dog and cat, the last of which is perhaps a 

 native, the only species we find are the fox, a wild sheep called Ovis 

 Cyprius, the hare, rat {Mus decumanus), and common mouse, the 

 hedgehog, and two species of bats. Of birds 89 species are enu- 

 merated. The reptiles are 28 in number, and there are 29 fishes. 

 Only 4 Crustacea are enumerated, but the list of Coleoptera ex- 

 tends to 1384 species. This is the only order of insects which Dr. 

 Kotschy seems to have collected, or at least of which the species 

 have been determined, but he refers to a list of Lepidoptera, pub- 

 lished in a Vienna journal, and there is a separate list of Orthop- 

 tera given at page 478. The number of land and fresh water mol- 

 lusks is 25, and with them the list closes. 



The graphic picture, drawn by Dr. linger, of the locust plague of 

 Cyprus, will enable us to make a single extract. 



" In the year 1862, spring set in early. On our first journey from Lamaka to 

 Famagosta, we found the young brood ah-eady hatched. Though scarcely larger 

 than gnats, we were horrified at their prodigious numbers, which too manifestly in- 

 dicated the destructive nature of the foe which the warm spring sun was about to 

 develop, even more rapidly than the young crops. In the neighbourhood of the vil- 

 lage of Angoru, our ride lay across a ban-en table land, on which were a few small 

 fields only. Bushes of Juniper us phanicea, Pistacia Lentiscus, Poterimn spmostwi, 

 Satureia spinosa, &c., covered the poor soil. On this waste heath great colonies of 

 locusts had established themselves, resting in thousands on each bush, and feeding 

 on them. As we approached, the little creatures sprang lightly away, but soon re- 

 turned to their social meal. We could not observe that they had as yet done much 

 injury to the shrubs on Avhich they fed, but the complaints which we everywhere heard 

 of their annual devastations, were enough to prove that even in their young state 

 they are a scourge to the cultivated lands." 



