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in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. He has lately discovered a 
species of Metophthalmus (family Lathridide), three species of which are 
represented in the Canary Islands; he has also discovered an eyeless 
species of weevil (nov. gen.) and another (gen. ? Pentatemenus), the eyes of 
which have only six facets. These insects belonging to the subfamily 
Cossonine are very closely allied to similar ones occurring in the Canary 
Islands, and which are also found in the extreme South of Europe. 
Wollaston, as far back as 1861, described a Colydid (gen. Cossyphodes) from 
the Cape belonging to a genus known at the time as occurring only at 
Madeira. Another species was later on discovered in Abyssinia. It is a 
singular coincidence that both Cossyphodes and Metophthalmus should be 
discovered in such opposite directions. The true explanation is that the 
minute insects of Africa have not yet been properly collected, and that the 
genera mentioned above will be found to have a larger area of distribution 
than at first imagined.” 
Another very interesting record is found in Mr. Gilchrist’s report on 
Marine Invertebrates :—‘‘ The specimen identified as Astacus capensis is of 
special interest, particularly as it is the only known representative of the 
European Lobster in South Africa. It is described by Herbst as being 
found in the rivers of the Colony, and as having all five pairs of legs 
chelate. The specimen procured was, however, found in a salt-water rock 
pool (at Sea Point), and others in the museum collection are described as 
from Algoa Bay. Moreover, all the legs are not chelate in these specimens. 
These points will receive special attention, as there is evidently an error 
somewhere.” 
Tur following extracts are taken from an article “By a South Sea 
Trader ” in the ‘ Pall Mall Gazette’ of July 12th:— 
Twofold Bay, a magnificent deep-water harbour on the southern coast 
of New South Wales, is a fisherman’s paradise, though its fame is but 
local, or known only to outsiders who may have spent a day there when 
travelling from Sydney to Tasmania in the fine steamers of the Union 
Company, which occasionally put in there to ship cattle from the little 
township of Eden. But the chief point of interest about T'wofold Bay is 
that it is the rendezvous of the famous ‘“ Killers” (Orca gladiator), the 
deadly foes of the whole race of Cetaceans other than themselves, and the 
most extraordinary and sagacious creatures that inhabit the ocean’s depths. 
From July to November two “schools” of Killers may be seen every day, 
either cruising to and fro across the entrance of the bay, or engaged in a 
Titanic combat with a Whale—a “ Right” Whale, a “‘ Humpback,” or the 
long, swift “ Finback.” But they have never been known to tackle the 
great Sperm Whale, except when the great creature has been wounded by 
