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looking fish which were exposed for sale in the fish-market at Chris- 

 tiania, such as 1 had never seen before, — to speak of these and other 

 rare curiosities of those inland seas, whose salt waters are frozen dur- 

 ing so many months, would require the knowledge and the pen of a 

 Yarrell ; and so I close my account of the fish and fishing of Norway. 



Alfred Charles Smith. 

 Old Park, Devizes, July 24, 1851. 



(To be continued). 



Extracts from the Correspondence of Mr. H. W. Bates, now forming 

 Entomological Collections in South America. 



(Continued from page 3144). 



Para, April 30, 3 851. 

 I arrived in this city on the 19th instant, having left Ega on the 

 1st of March, a rapid passage down the current of the Amazons, being 

 now the season of full waters. Your letter of October 3, 1850, where- 

 in you acknowledge the receipt of my first Ega collection of two 

 boxes, I received at the ' Barra,' coming down ; and another of Janu- 

 ary 8, 1851, I received here. 1 am very glad to see that my collec- 

 tions have sold remarkably well, and feel very much the compliment 

 Mr, Hewitson has paid me, in naming the new Callithea after me. I 

 am convinced that I could not have done a great deal more in Ento- 

 mology at Ega, if I had staid there longer, although a few more new 

 Nymphalidae might have turned up when the river falls again ; but a 

 good picking might be had in St. Paul's, further up the river ; and 

 there must be quite different ground higher up, within the Peruvian 

 frontier. None of the branch rivers are very practicable from the So- 

 limoens, none of them having white settlements, and all the Indian 

 savages being more or less enemies to white men. 1 hope you re- 

 ceived the fine collection I sent from Ega January 2nd, which went 

 from here in March. I have now about 1600, chiefly Coleoptera, ta- 

 ken since January at Ega, which I could not possibly get ready to go 

 by the present vessel, although I worked hard the last two days, hav- 

 ing been all the other days since I landed very much delayed in get- 

 ting a house. However, there sails a vessel for London in about ten 

 days, the ' Princess Royal,' by which I will send them. You will see 

 how few I took of Callithea Batesii ; I have one more with me : it is 



