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and Italy. The leeches are farmed by the A gas, 

 but there is a profitable contraband trade driven. 

 They are sold by the gatherers for about one 

 hundred and twenty piastres the oke; which, even 

 though a great many die, gives a large profit to 

 the merchant. Sometimes, however, all die. 

 There is a leech-bazaar held at Caisabar. 



The insects collected during our tour have 

 been deposited in the British Museum, where 

 they have been examined and named by our 

 friend Mr. Adam White, who observes, that 

 the Lycian insects belong to the same entomo- 

 logical province with Greece and the Archi- 

 pelago, — a part of the great Mediterranean pro- 

 vince. As we might expect, there are among them 

 many forms of an alpine or sub-alpine character, 

 by which the general assemblage is distinguished 

 from that met with in the islands of the iEgean. 

 Among these is a very distinct and dark-coloured 

 lady-bird, nearly allied to, and perhaps a variety of 

 Coccinella quinque-notata of Kirby, a species which 

 ranges from Greenland to Abyssinia, becoming 

 alpine as we proceed southwards. In Lycia it is 

 found only on the highest summits of the Taurus 

 and Massicytus, and was taken by Mr. Hoskyn 

 and Mr. Forbes at an elevation of nine thousand 



