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the Chatodon, commonly called the Old IFife, and another long 

 filli in tab. i. 



I SHALL conclude this account of the fiflies with the defcrip- Amphibious 



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tion of a moll: lingular amphibious fpecies : " It was," fays the 

 hilioriah fHawk/zvortb, iii. 529) " of the moft remarkable kind, 

 " about the fize of a minnow, and had two very flrong bread 

 *' fins; we found it in places that were quite dry, where we fup- 

 " Y)o{<i(\ it might have been left by the tide, but it did not feem to 

 ** become languid by the want of water, for upon our approach 

 *' it leaped away, by the help of the bread fins, as nimbly as a 

 " frog ; neither did it feem to prefer water to land, for when we 

 " found it in the water, it frequently leaped out and purfued 

 *' its way upon dry ground ; we alfo obferved, that when it was 

 " in places where fmall ftones were ftanding above the furface 

 " of the water, at a little diftance from each other, it chofe rather 

 " to leap from done to done, than to pafs through the water, and 

 " we faw feveral of them pafs entirely over puddles in this man- 

 *' ner, till they came to dry ground, and then leap away." 



Two crabs are defcribed, of a new fpecies, and one of mod Craes. 

 exquifite beauty ; it had all its claws and joints of the mod lovely 

 ultramarine color, and the under fide of fo pure a white, and 

 of fo delicate a polilh as to refemble the white of the fined por- 

 cellane; the other was marked with blue, but more fparingly, 

 and the back with three brown fpots : perhaps thefe differed 

 only in fex. 



Whosoever reads the following meagre Florula ai New Hoi- Plants. 

 landy will be amazed at the few plants which 1 have been able to 



afcertain. 



