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" Nepticula atricollis : Mode of Life. — The egg is deposited on the 

 under surface of a leaf of hawthorn or wild apple. The young larva 

 mines an extremely slender mine close to the edge of the leaf, going 

 in and out of each serrature ; this slender mine is about an inch in • 

 length, and is almost filled up with the brown excrement; the larva 

 then commences mining on a different plan, making a broader mine, 

 and eventually a large blotch, of which the brown excrement occupies 

 only a very small space ; this blotch assumes rather a peculiar brownish 

 green tinge, especially on the leaves of the hawthorn : when the larva 

 is full fed it comes out on the leaf, and seeking some convenient corner 

 constructs its blackish green cocoon. There are two broods of this 

 insect in the year, the larva occurring in October and more sparingly 

 in July. The perfect insects appear in May and at the beginning of 

 August. 



^^Description of the Larva. — Length 2 lines. Pale greenish, with 

 dark green dorsal vessel ; the eleventh and twelfth segments with a 

 reddish tinge ; the head and second segment blackish brown; beneath 

 is a central row of dark spots." — (Pp. 228 and 230). 



In conclusion I can only add that this work has ray most cordial 

 recommendation. It is quite immaterial whether I think with the 

 author on all points; no one can possibly deny him the credit of 

 having produced a work of great beauty and accuracy, and one the ' 

 utility of which is even now only beginning to be appreciated. 



Edward Newman. 



Among the Ainos. By Arthur Adams, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



We have been driven by the fury of a gale through La Perouse 

 Strait into the Sea of Okhotsk, and are now quietly at anchor in Aniwa 

 Bay. 



This grand Bay, forty miles deep, is on the south end of Saghaleen, 

 as the Ainos call their island. These aborigines also term it " Isoka ;" 

 in fact, I find that Geographers as well as Naturalists may sometimes 

 be embai-rassed by a multiplicity of synonyms. The Japanese call the 

 island " Oku-Yesso," the Russians " Sachalien ;" it is named by old 

 writers " Karafto," and in ancient maps it is " Sahalien," " Ula-hata," 

 "Auga-hata," " Island of the Black River" and "Amur." By Siebold, 

 followed by Keith Johnson, it is called " Tarakai," but the name by 



