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river, there may be no eggs laid, although the fact is as I have stated in the winter, 

 and in a tank which was lately frozen over. — K.; Sudbury, Fehruary 11, 1861. 



Note on Lampania zonalis. — This genus belongs to the estuary group of Cerithiidae, 

 with orbicular multispirdl opercula. It inhabits sand and mud flats between tide- 

 marks. The animal, in nearly all particulars, resembles Cerilhium : there is no 

 visible siphon, only a pallial fold ; the whitish tentacles are ringed with dark brown ; 

 the muzzle is broad, anuulated with dark browu, and fringed at the under edge with 

 short whitish beards; the back of the neck is marked with square brown spots like the 

 dark spots on the shell ; the foot is short, truncate in front and lineated with dark 

 brown. Lampania is inactive and crawls slowly ; it is very tenacious of life, sur- 

 viving removal from the water several days. It is a very ubiquitous moUusk: I have 

 met with it at Macao and Hong-Kong in the South and at Ta-lien-Hivan and 

 Shantung in the North of China. In the Sea of Japan I have followed it from the 

 Korean Peninsula in the South to the island of Saghaleen in the North. — Arthur 

 Adams. 



Capture of Lepidurus glacialis in Lian-tung. — On the 12th of September we land 

 on a projecting point, marked on the charts as an island, on the eastern side of the 

 gulf of Lian-tung, about forty miles north of Hulu-Shau Bay. On leaving the boat 

 near the rocky cape named Cape Vansittart, which is separated from the mainland by 

 a flat sandy neck, we approach a rounded knoll, on the summit of which is a square 

 watch-tower with Tartar horsemen grouped picturesquely around, a scene my artist 

 friend, Bedwell, is desirous of sketching. In the distance are the angular cold gray 

 peaks and ridges of a barren mountain-range, with here and there a gleaming streak, 

 as of quicksilver, running down their sides as the sun shines on the water-courses and 

 little winding streams. At the base of these lifeless granite masses stretches a level 

 plain, green and fertile, where little straggling hamlets of low flat-topped mud-houses 

 are snugly sheltered in long groves of trees. To this succeeds a sterile sandy belt 

 with a chain of freshwater ponds, shallow and full of weeds, and with muddy open 

 spaces between them, — the natural resort of the curlew, the whimbrel, the plover and 

 the snipe. Here also we see the spotted crake (^Gallinula porzana, Linn.), a very sly 

 little fellow, keeping close in the cover of the reeds and grass. The pretty but scent- 

 less Chinese pink, a little blue-flowered Iris, and a yellow, red and white mixture of 

 the blossoms of the tormentil, the heads of Sanguisorba and the loose corymbs of the 

 flower-of-yarrow, complete nearly all the plants that redeem the sandy soil from same- 

 ness and utter sterility. Nearer the sea long salt-water lagoons and shallow swamps 

 extend, covered in some parts with a white-flowered sea-lavender and the blue stars 

 of Aster tripolium, and from which the great white heron {Ardea alba) slowly rises, 

 with bright yellow bill stretched out in front and long black legs stretched out behind, 

 and after a few lazy flaps with his huge curved wings, alights again to resume his 

 interrupted fishing. Equally familiar is his yet larger cousin in gray, the common 

 heron (Ardea cinerea), and, standing on one leg, her loose snowy plumes waving in the 

 breeze, the elegant white egret dreams of frogs and fishes. Sandpipers and green- 

 shanks run piping and probing about the margin, and gulls and little terns (Sterna 

 minuta) scream, quarrel and hover over the heads both of bipeds and birds. Now as 

 I stoop to collect some specimens of Limnsea, in one of the clear freshwater ponds with 

 a bottom of sandy mud, my attention is arrested by an object which, at first sight, I 



