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contain unsuspected dells and nooks decorated with ferns/ and 

 hidden lanes, wandering in concealed quehradas, gay with Salvias, 

 Fuchsias, and Verbenas/ giving shelter to a countless population, 

 varied in habits, different in natures, whose range was determined 

 by light and shade, heat and cold, moisture and vegetation — 

 many timid and shrinking from observation, seldom straying 

 far from the spots that were home or habitation, where they 

 must be sought to be found. 



Pumas and deer ranged over the high, rugged ground ; 

 foxes, weasels, and opossums dwelt on the lower slopes ; and 

 down in the basin there was a Zoologist's paradise. Butterflies 

 above, below, and around ; ^ now here, now there, by many 

 turns and twists displaying the brilliant tesselation of their 

 under-sides. Some congregated in clusters on the banks of 

 streams or in muddy places, while others sailed in companies 

 over the open plain. Mayflies and Dragonflies danced in the 

 sunlight ; lizards * darted across the paths ; and legions of spiders 



1 Aspleniicm Trichomanes, L. ; Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. ; Polypodium athyri- 

 oides, Hook, (abundant) ; F. angustifolium, Sw. ; P. lucidum, Bory ; P. rnurorum, 

 Hook. ; and P. plebejum, Schlecht. 



2 The following were some of the more common plants in the hedges and 

 ditches: — Lepidium Humholdtii, DC; Cassia tomentosa, L. ; Rubus sp. ; Fuchsia 

 petiolaris, Kth. ; Chvquiragua lancifolia, H.B.K. ; Palea Mutisii, H.B.K. ; Solanum 

 ochrop/iyllum, Van Heurck ? ; Alonsoa caulialaia, R. & P. ; Salvia vermicifolia, 

 H.B.K. ; Stachys elliptical H.B.K, ; Verbena prostrata, Br. ; Bmiarea Caldasiana, 

 Herb. ; and Cyperus melanostachyns, H. & K. A very queer flowering-plant, resem- 

 bling a mushroom, was also abundant at Machachi. It has been described in the 

 Journal of Botany, June 1890, by Mr. E. G. Baker, who says, " in its floral characters 

 it resembles Helosis, and in its rhizome Corynma; it is therefore interesting as form- 

 ing a connecting link between these two genera. This will make the third species 

 of Helosis, the others being i/. Gityanensis, Rich., and B. Mexicana, Lieb." 



3 We obtained a Steroma ; three species of Pedaliodes ; Lymanopoda I'oena, Hew. ; 

 L. tener. Hew. ; Agraidis glycera, Feld. ; Pyrameis huntera (Fabr.) ; P. carye 

 (Hiibn.); Junonia vellida (Fabr.); Lyccena A:od, Druce ; L. Andicola, n.sp. ; *Peris 

 xanthodice, Lucas ; P. suadella, Feld. ; Colia<i lesbia (Fabr.) ; * C. dirnera, Doubl. & 

 Hew, ; Papilio Americus, Kollar; Pamphila phylceus (Drury) ; and an Ancyloxypha. 

 Those marked with an asterisk were very numerous. 



4 Liocephaliis trachycephahcs (A. Dum.). 



