REIKEVIG. 
272 
The entomological productions of Iceland are 
extremely scanty. A very small collection of 
insects, indeed, rewarded my researches in this 
department of natural history, and of these there 
were none that were in the least remarkable for 
their beauty. Some of the Lepidopterous species 
were new to me, among which I think I had five 
or six nondescript Phaler;w. No Papilio or 
Sphinx has ever been met with in the country. 
Of Coleopterous insects, there is scarcely a greater 
variety; and I saw only a single Scarab ceus, and 
a very few CureuHones and Carabi , most of 
which, however, to make me amends, were such 
as I was unacquainted with. I, by mere acci¬ 
dent, have still preserved a specimen of an un¬ 
described species of Coccinella , which I found 
killed by the steam of one of the hot springs at 
the Geysers; it was the only one of the genus 
that I saw. 
The fish of these coasts scarcely at all fell 
under my observation, so that I have little more 
to remark upon this subject, than that thirty- 
three species are enumerated by Mohr, nearly all 
of which, I believe, are natives of our own seas; 
but of these almost the only ones that came to 
our table, were cod, salmon, and the Thingevalle 
trout. Herrings I never saw, nor are the natives 
provided with nets for catching them. 
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