Beetles Carried by the Wind FIZ 
of the rock, where only rushes are growing. They appeared 
to be travelling with the north-east trade wind, and were 
sifted out by the rushes as they passed over. On a finer 
night I have no doubt many species might be obtained. I 
suppose that the wind was moving at the rate of not less 
than thirty miles an hour, so that the beetles, when they 
got up to it from the forest below, where it was comparatively 
calm, might easily be carried hundreds of miles without much 
labour to themselves. I added two fine new Carabide to 
my collection; and about eleven o’clock started back again, 
having many a fall on the slippery steep before I reached the 
place where I had left my mule. It was a very dark night, 
and the oil of my small bull’s-eye lanthorn was exhausted, 
but the mule knew every step of the way, and, though 
slipping often, never fell, and carried me safely home, 
