Sir Charles Lyell informs me that a Dyticus has been caught with an Ancylus (a fresh-water shell like a limpet) firmly adhering to it; and a water-beetle of the same family, a Colymbetes, once flew on board the "Beagle," when forty-five miles distant from the nearest land:
Sir Charles Lyellek jakinarazi dit Dytiscus bat harrapatu dutela Ancylus bat (laparen antzeko ur gezatako molusku bat) tinko datxekiola; eta, familia bereko uretako koleoptero bat, Colymbetes bat, heldu zen behin "Beagle" itsas untzira, lehorrik hurbilenetik berrogeita bost miliatara zegoenean: