30 INSECTS AND PLANTS AT PORTLAND. 



make you cautious I may mention that Portland has always 

 had a bad reputation amongst entomologists (not altogether 

 unfounded) for the dangerous nature of its collecting ground, 

 as well as its fogs, and this, with a story of an entomologist 

 who fell down and "bruised his liver," did much to deter 

 collectors, especially from night work, so that little had been 

 done except in the day-time. We, however, never met with 

 an accident, though some of the places we went to certainly 

 rather invited such a result ! 



