cpur. v]i.] 
THE NORTHERNMOST BEETLE, 
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S. cernua L., S. rimdaris L., S. stellaris L., S. cccspitosa L., S. 
flagellaris Willd., S. serpyllifolia PuRSH., Cardamine helUdifolvi 
L., Gochlearia fenestrata R. Bii., Oxyria digyna (L.) Hill., Salix 
polaris Wg., Poa jiexmsa Wg., and Liizida hypcrhorea R. Br. 
There were thus found in all only twenty-three species of 
inconsiderable flowering-plants, among them eight species 
belonging to the Saxifrage family, a sulphur-yellow poppy, 
commonly cultivated in our gardens, and the exceedingly 
beautiful, forget-me-not-like Eritrichium. 
here on the northernmost point of Asia 
has to contend with a severe climate is 
shown, among other things, as Dr. Kjell- 
man has pointed out, by most of the 
flowering-plants there having a special 
tendency to form exceedingly compact 
half-globular tufts. 
The only insects which occurred here in 
any large number were podurse, but some 
flies were also seen, and even a beetle, the 
before-mentioned Staphylinid. Of birds, 
there were seen a large number of sand¬ 
pipers, an exceedingly numerous flock 
of barnacle geese—evidently migrating to 
more southerly regions, perhaps from some 
Polar land lying to the north of Cape Chelyuskin—a loom, some 
kittiwakes and ivory gulls, and remains of owls. Mammalia 
were represented by the bear already mentioned, and by the 
reindeer and the lemming, whose traces and dung were seen on 
the plains. In the sea, a walrus, several rough seals {Plioca 
hispida), and two shoals of white whales were seen. 
All rivers were now dried up, but wide, shallow river-beds 
indicated that during the snow-melting season there was an 
abundant flow of water. The rush of snow rivulets and the cry 
of birds then certainly cause an interruption in the desolation 
That the vegetation 
'IHE BEETLE LIVING FARTHEST 
TO THE NORTH. 
Micralymina Dicksoiii 
MAkl. 
Magnified, twelve times. 
