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ralists, who have spent years in the country, and 

 have travelled through it in every direction ; we are 

 therefore bound to suppress the few detached obser- 

 vations we were able to make during the short 

 space of four weeks. 



Captain Von Kotzebue having frequently sent 

 his people to fish in the Bay of Boto Fogo, we en- 

 riched our collection by thirty-two kinds of fish, 

 the greater part of which were very similar to, those 

 already described as tenants of the Atlantic, but 

 still differing from them in some respects. 



How abundant the insects of Brazil are is gene- 

 nerally known, particularly in the warm and moist 

 lands along the coast, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. 

 Few of them crawl on the ground ; the greater part 

 of them live on the leaves and fruits, or under the 

 bark of trees, in flowers, and in the spongy excres- 

 cences of the trees. Among the coleoptera, the 

 Stachylinm is a rarity : the white-winged Cicindela 

 nixea of Kirby is to be found in great abundance on 

 the sand of the beach, which is of the same colour 

 as itself; the Ck. nodkornis and angustkollis DeJ. 

 on the other hand, frequent the paths in the fo- 

 rests. Cosnania, which supplies the place of our 

 Elapkrus, is found among the grass by the side of 

 brooks. The little animals of the Flochiunus and 

 Coptodera species climb, by means of their indented 

 claws, along the moss on the trunks of the trees : 

 their numbers, in these extensive forests, must b^ 



