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lizards which inhabit the walls and rocks of Italy, it is astonishing that here, where there 

 are plenty of insects, only one little Scincoid, a species of Mabouya, ia now and then to be 

 met with under a stone. In some brackish water there was a little Mugiloid. The Muo-ilida: 

 are known to live in all kinds of water, from fresh to salt ; they are found in the Lagoon 

 of Venice, in brackish, salt, and fresh water. Cyprinoids, true freshwater forms, have 



Km. 60.— Papaw-trees (Carka papaya), in the Governor's garden at Clarence Hill. (From a Photograph.) 



not been introduced here, with the exception of the gold-fish ; and the Anguilla, 

 which in other islands, as the Azores, Faeroes, and Tahiti, ascends into the lakes, does not 

 seem to inhabit the coasts of these islands, the whole fish fauna of which, as well 

 as the invertebrate fauna generally, has a decidedly West Indian character. 



" Since our last stay here many insects have come out which we did not see before, 



