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of this insect alighting below high-water mark. The tide rolled on, co¬ 
vered the sands, with all their inhabitants, and again receded. I dis¬ 
turbed the little insects in their retreat; they were as lively as if they had 
been sporting in the sunshine.” This species is abundant at Baldoyle, near 
Dublin, in the same localities as the Cillenum and Diglossa. We hope to 
see these, and it may, probably, be others with them, added to the list 
of Mr. Gosse’s Marine Insecta, in the shape of an appendix. 
In making these remarks we have considered that every animal that is 
dependent on the salt-water for its sustenance—in fact, that cannot live 
without its presence—has a right to be included in a Manual of Marine 
Zoology. We know it is difficult to draw a line of demarcation ; but we 
think it would be better, if necessary to err at all, to do so on the safe 
side. 
When part two makes its appearance we shall return once more, and 
notice the present one ; and we would now take our leave of it, assuring 
our readers, that as a Manual of British Marine Zoology, it need fear no 
rival; as a sea-side book, it will be the constant companion of the student 
of nature, who will find it a most useful work. We prophecy a long run 
of prosperity to it, and hope the author will have frequent occasion, as new 
editions make their appearance, of keeping its contents up to the standard 
of the day. 
Catalogue of the Bees of Great Britain. By Frederick Smith, M.E.S. 
Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. 8vo. London. 
1855, with ten plates. Price 6s. 
Twenty years of intimacy—for so far back, as he has told us himself, do 
his continuous observations date—have eminently qualified the author to 
commend to his readers a theme in itself attractive— 
“ The bee with honied thigh, 
That at her flowery work doth sing.” 
—(exquisite picture of cheerful industry!) does not the very name conjure 
up fragrant memories of long bright days of delicious summer, of child¬ 
hood’s pastime, and the fresh face of smiling nature. Bees—blithe, busy 
bees, thrifty withal, and valiant in. the defence of your well-earned store 
and darling brood—we, too, have heard your carol, have watched you, 
too, at rosy morn, and noon, and dewy eve, with interest and curiosity 
that have grown and ripened since that early moral lesson by thee sug- 
