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like Burrawang, which are distant from towns, and where so little 

 is done in the way of aesthetic gardening that few opportunities 

 have presented themselves to this species of spreading to them. It 

 is common on the Blue Mts. at Springwood and the Valley. 

 It has crossed the Dividing Range and flourishes in the Mudgee 

 District. It is very abundant in the Hunter Biver District on 

 the north, as in the southern districts it is also at Braidwood and 

 Wagga Wagga. It has long since escaped from gardens and has 

 taken to bush land which has never been cultivated. And where 

 it has become established my experience is that the worms of this 

 species are more abundant than indigenous ones. It has also 

 established itself in the other colonies, as recently Mr. Froggatt 

 brought me specimens of it from Sandhurst, Victoria, and Professor 

 Rennie has also sent me a number of examples of it from his garden 

 at Adelaide, Tide states that he has also received specimens of 

 it from'^Milwaukee U.S.A. and Mexico. It is possibly the worm 

 referred to by an American writer in "Nature" (1884, p. 503), 

 extracts from whose letter are quoted in a footnote on p. 528 of 

 my first paper. On the occasion of my last visit to Mount Wilson^ 

 though I have never met with anteclitellian worms there before, 

 on turning over a patch of cowdung by the road side on the 

 sandstone country and at some distance from cultivated land, 

 Mr. Cox noticed thirty or forty small worms which may also 

 belong to this species. I took ten specimens at random, and 

 though the largest of them (in spirit) is only 36 mm. long, they 

 all have girdles commencing with xxv or xxvi and including xxxr 

 or XXXII (in one case xxiv-xxviii). 



The other two species of Allolohojohora which occur here do not 

 seem to have spread beyond the gardens of the Australian capitals. 

 Ude received examples of A . fcetida Sav. from New Zealand and 

 Sydney. All the examples I have seen yet are from Sydney 

 or Melbourne gardens, from the latter locality brought me by 

 Mr. Froggatt. 



Of the third species I have seen examples only from the Hon. 

 William Macleay's garden at Elizabeth Bay where it is abundant, 



