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nearly related to it, but which, perhaps, is only the other sex; 

 more rarely there were Bryaxis dentiventris and B. hemiiitera, 

 Saulcy, ScydmcBnus maroccanus and Helferi var., Amblystomus 

 mauritanicus, Platytarus mauritanicus, the important -4si^a sidcata, 

 Timarcha rugosa, and An'isorhynchus barharus, a number of Achenii 

 and Lathrobii, Tachys algiricns, Tychius elephas, Kr., Ptinus obesus, 

 and some other species ; very scattered Platyderus gregarius and 

 P. alacer, Carabus barbarus, Cephenium bicolor, Saulcy, n. sp., 

 Tychus jacquelini, and Euplexus afer, Saulcy ; and among ants, 

 tolerably plentiful, Paussus favieri, MeropJiysia carinulata, Ros., 

 and Cholovocera formiceticola, Ros. Another quarter of an hour's 

 journey brought me to a small mosque, in which the country 

 people said their prayers, and were accustomed to deposit their 

 offerings, consisting for the most part of incense and tapers. Near 

 by the remains of old walls testified that here stood formerly a 

 gate of old Tingis, which in the time of Hannibal might 

 have been a town of 200,000 inhabitants, and, as the numerous 

 ruins showed, had extended for three leagues along the sea-shore. 

 From here the road leads on through a broad river valley called 

 Bubana, and formed by the Guadlighouth, the Rio de los Judios 

 of the Spanish colonists. 



On the banks of this stream we found numbers of Chlcenii, 

 principally C. velutinus, C. spoliatus, and a species of the genus 

 unknown to me, and probably not occurring in Europe. In the 

 Genista brought down by floods the usual shore beetles, 

 Hcteroderes algirinus and Amblyderus scabricollis were naturally 

 not wanting, but the greater number of the insects occurring 

 here consisted of StajjhylinidcB, Aphodii, and Cryptophagi. One 

 Lithonoma was also found, which, however, I w^as not able to dis- 

 tinguish from S. andalusica, likewise a single Colaphus ru/ifrons. 

 On the other side of the river were very damp clay unploughed 

 fields, which were noticeable for their profusion of large stones, 

 which apparently would conceal highly interesting creatures. 

 The first stone which I raised I let almost fall again from joyous 

 surprise, for under it the whole creeping animal world of the 

 neighbourhood appeared to have made their rendezvous. There 

 were Siagona jenissoni, in a swarming crowd, mixed up with 

 S. dejeani, Chloeiiius azureiis, Pcecilus cupripennis, P. numidicus, 

 Ccdcar elongatum, a host of Brachinus angustatus, and B. testaceus, 

 Ramb., Cossyphus dejeanii, C. incostatus, C. pygmceus ; running 



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