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passed lovely orchids, large scarlet and yellow lilies, coreopsis, 
blue and red salvias, Virginian creepers, and “ vines ” of all 
kinds. The roads being only tracks through the forest are often 
quite hidden under water, or have fallen pines stretched right 
across them. When this is the case we turn aside into the 
scrub, and drive straight ahead, over stumps and gopher-holes, 
till I wonder the buggy is not overturned. Even in the track 
we have to pass so close to the tree trunks that in many of 
them notches are cut to allow the hub of the wheels to pass. 
October 26th. — Carl brought me two “orange-dogs,” larvae 
of a large swallow-tail butterfly measuring about six inches 
across the wings. They are smaller than I should have thought, 
in comparison with the size of the perfect insect. They have eye- 
like spots behind the head much as the English elephant hawk- 
moth larva has, and are mottled brown, and olive green, with 
blue spots. Yesterday we found two new “ blood-suckers ” in 
the grove. They were eating butterflies, and were on a 
favourite sweet-scented plant which had quite a heap of rejected 
butterflies’ wings on the ground under it. M. P. said her 
brother told her there were no worms in British Columbia. 
There are none here (away from the margins of lakes) and con- 
sequently no surface-soil, only dry sand, which is turned up, 
and over, by ants, sand-wasps and flies of different kinds. 
October 27th. — Drove over to call at Joycelands. Mr. J. 
showed us his garden, all made — including lawn — in five years. 
Everything out here grows so fast ; he showed me two 
eucalyptus trees he had grown from seeds, and which in three 
years had reached the height of 35 and 36 feet. Amongst other 
things he had arrowroot and sago plants, gumquats, camphor, 
and citron trees. One citron, which we brought home, is nine 
inches long and twelve round ; like a large lemon but with a 
very rough skin. 
October 28th. — The “ orange-dogs ” have “ whips ” like our 
puss-moth larva has, only wdiereas the puss-moth’s wdiips are 
situated on the extreme end of the larva, and are hidden in a 
visible green sheath, the orange-dogs’ are just above the head, 
and can be drawm in quite out of sight. They are also below 
the eye-like marks, and so have the appearance of a forked, 
red tongue, shot out of a supposed mouth. When the cater- 
pillar protrudes them, it at the same time gives out a smell very 
like that of the stink-horn fungus. I have had them in a card- 
board box, but this morning had to move them into a w’ooden 
one, as during the night they eat a large hole in the side of 
the former and both crawded out into the room. 
By-the-by, Florida cats wdll generally refuse fish, quail, or 
dead hawks, that is, with the exception of the little insect hawk, 
which they do not seem to mind. They, however, eat large 
numbers of lizards and grasshoppers, and play with the big 
locusts like an English cat would with a mouse. Also the}" 
catch numbers of the tomato moths, which are large, measuring 
