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bipeds (energetic witbal, and determined) might be seen in this great wild hill-side, 

 one al each end of an immense blackened log. By well-directed efforts, assisted by 

 sundry encouraging exclamations, as " There ! she moves," "Now then, Doctor," or 

 " Again, again, again ! " the log is turned over, and my amiable and worthy colleague, 

 Sutherland, or my impetuous messmate, Buckley, will share with me possibly one or 

 two fine Carabi ; perhaps a neat black species with grooved elytra, perhaps the gorgeous 

 Carabus intricatus in all his emerald glory, perhaps one equally as large, green and 

 beautiful, with rows of beads on his wing-covers, or a small brown flattish species. 

 Besides these you may bag a few specimens of Helops and Helops' cousin-germans, 

 and sometimes a Dorcus orLucanus will reward our persevering, praiseworthy exertions. 

 But oh ! what sweeps we look on our triumphant return ! Our nether habiliments, now 

 no longer white, are somewhat torn, our hands are decidedly " dirty paws,"-and our 

 faces as smutty as the bottom of the family tea-kettle. — Id. 



Opalrums and Sand. — We are at Hakodadi, in the island of Yesso. The day is fine 

 and tempting, and the ship-worn naturalist is longing for a walk; for, believe me, the 

 charms of Nature are very much enhanced after weary days of monotonous routine on 

 board a ship. I trace the long, sweeping curve round Hakodadi Bay; long strings of 

 horses carrying all kinds of merchandize pass me repeatedly: I buy a wicker-basket 

 for an " ilzdiu," and fill it with skulls and shells before I get afloat again ; and now 

 the great object of my desire, Umbonium giganteum, a molluscous Trochidian, has 

 been secured "in the flesh," and the remainder of the walk is devoted to beetles. 

 I intend to cross the narrow, sandy isthmus connecting the two bays and follow the 

 outline of the outer one. Far along the sandy beach I go, my soothing pipe inviting 

 meditation, and eyes, that "to their earthy mother tend," intent on chalcedony, 

 carnelians and nodules of marble, of which there are galore on the "-beached 

 margent of the sea." The sunken camp is passed, where astute Nipong men daily 

 practise rifle-shooting, and near which tempting deposits invite inspection and reward 

 the Coleopterist with a huge black Copris, an amethystine Geotrupes, and a singular 

 Onthophagus with long recurved frontal horn, and where Euchlorae abound on the 

 leaves of the young oaks. Vast mounts of white sand, covered with undulations like 

 the ripples of the sea, drift-hillocks, soft and dazzling like heaps of snow, long wavy 

 ridges, half burying the fishermen's huts and banking up the boat-houses ; roses, 

 large, blushing and fragrant, and Seduras with whorled succulent green leaves, and 

 everywhere Opatrums. Rolling down the gentle sand declivities, or crawling painfully 

 up the banks, under the dry, scattered shards of oxen and horses, under heaps of dead 

 leaves, and by the snaky roots of brine-washed plants, there nestle scores and scores of 

 gray-brown, rusty brown-black, rough-coated indolent Opatrums. Without much 

 labour you may gather them by bushels, and leave as many for your friends. With 

 the exception of their colour, which varies according to the amount of sand and dirt 

 on their bodies, they are all alike as two peas, and tired, dusty and ungrateful, you 

 come to the conclusion that all is— Opatrums and sand. — Id. 



On the Capture of Dicranocephalus Wallackii in tlie Korea. — Forming one side of 

 Chosan Harbour, in the Korea, is a green hilly island, covered with low trees, chiefly 

 oak scrub, and full of loose moss-grown, lichen-covered, loose stones. In some parts 

 the sides of the hills are furrowed by water-courses, where the wild pig feeds on the 

 fallen acorns, and where the little hog-deer comes to drink. In other parts the broad 

 base of the hill expands into grassy plains, where troops of horses graze, and where we 

 find shallow scattered ponds, the favourite resort of sundry ducks and wigeons. It was 



