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and the Cycas are spread abundantly over every part; a 

 few labiate and scrophulariaceous plants were visible, and 

 several species of Chenopodium and Asclepias were com- 

 mon everywhere. Grasses and compound flowers were 

 not very numerous, but I observed a pretty good sprink- 

 ling of Cryptogamia, especially among the ferns and 

 lichens. On the sides of some tombs on a little island 

 near Quelpart, a species of hymenopterous insect of the 

 family Eumenidce builds a neat hemispherical nest of the 

 size of a filbert, composed of clay and comminuted grass 

 made into a kind of mortar; the interior is lined with a 

 smooth polished plaster, and contains a single larva with 

 the body slightly bent upon itself. 



On one small island where we watered ship, there were 

 fields of Tiger-lilies, and in another part barley was grow- 

 ing, and clumps of dark-green pine-trees overhung the 

 precipitous side where masses of lichen-stained rocks lay 

 crowded and jumbled together. The whole surface of 

 the island was covered with huge boulders and loose 

 stones overgrown with vegetation. In one part was a 

 large square enclosure with low solid walls of piled-up 

 stones, containing the graves of two individuals, known as 

 such by the most grotesque tombstones I ever saw in my 

 life. As the sun was shining brightly and the day very 

 warm, insects were numerous, more especially the Diptera, 

 which were far more brilliant and in larger numbers than 

 I had anywhere seen, even in the tropics; 



"these little bright-eyed things, 

 That float about the air on azure wings," 



were pitching on the leaves, whirling round the flowers, 



