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No. 5 is very near the genus Thomisus (Dumeril) but 1 

 don't recollect meeting with it at Mauritius. 



No. 6, Two small scorpions found on the vacoa (Pandanus 

 Vandermeerschi) and very plentiful on the broken leaves. 

 They seem entirely different from the Mauritius scorpions, 

 or from specimens I have seen from the adjacent Islands or 

 the E. Indies. 



No. 7 is a very singular specimen I captured on my first 

 visit to Round Island. It was of a bright green just the 

 colour of the Palm (on which^ I found it. The creature 

 was very active and defiant, and it was with difficulty I 

 caught him. Tou will observe the great length of the 

 tail compared with the others ; its sting was unfortunately 

 broken off by accident. I think it is rare as I failed to find 

 it on my second visit, and it was whilst diligently searching 

 for one I found the large. 



No. 8. This formidable and ugly looking^animal is not un- 

 common in the crevices of rocks and under the stones round 

 the summit of the mountain. It is most pugnacious and whtn 

 headed off from its retreat will show fight by raising the 

 palpi, and clapping them together making a clicking noise 

 like a crab. 



This Scorpion measures 4 | inches from head to tail. and. 

 the palpi 3 f inches making a total length uf 8 -| inches, the 

 latter are 1 f in circumference. The body and legs are 

 brown and the palpi black. I tried but unsuccessfully to 

 capture another that was running off very fast over the stcnes 

 with what I took to be Scincus Boutonii in its claws. 



I examined some specimens of scorpions in the Museum, 

 and found them all differ from the Round Island one. 



No. 9. Scolojyendra. This is I believe the Scolopendre mor- 

 dante of Dumeril. It differs somewhat from the centipedes 

 of Mauritius but I have seen some fiom the East Indies and 

 Rodrigues precisely the same. 



No. 10, Hymonoj^tera. This singular bee I captured whilst 

 feeding on the flowers of the Ipomcea Maritima, during my 

 visit in 1868. Its general colour was deep crimson, striated 

 on the body with deep jellow. I stated then in my notes, 



