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The Queensland Naturalist. 
July, 1921 
miles of the town without fatigue and loss of time. It is, 
no use searching for micro-lepidoptera when the sun is 
high. The only favourable times are very early in the 
morning, and for about one hour before sunset. One day 
I had a stroke of luck. A storm was impending in the 
afternoon. It overtook me walking, and I was soon 
drenched in a driving squall. Warm rain hurts no one if 
he keeps moving; but I had caught nothing. Then I 
noticed near the railway-station a half-acre allotment 
surrounded by a paling-fence and containing, fortunately, 
some native trees and bushes. The sky had cleared and 
the wind veered to the west. On the eastern side of this 
short fence I found a score of exquisite tiny micros, 
including several species new to science, which I could 
not have taken in any other way. The squall had driven 
them out of the foliage of the trees, and they had taken 
shelter on the lee side of the fence, from which I picked 
them off as* easily as blackberries. I called this luck; let 
me be more accurate; it was experience taking advantage 
of opportunity! T had the curiosity to revisit this fence 
next day, but found nothing. 
Charleville is situated on an area of light, sandy 
alluvium, which at the time of my visit was a botanist’s 
paradise. Wherever fenced from stock the ground was 
covered with a luxuriant herbage, mostly in blossom,, 
forming dense sheets of blue and orange and yellow. 
Most of the species were new to me, and this was even 
more so with the trees and shrubs. There is a light forest 
of Eucalyptus of several species, the most common having 
poplar or aspen-like leaves. Masses of mulga ( Acacia 
aneura) occur with other shrubs which Mr. C. T. White 
has kindly named for me. Here also I became acquainted 
with the genus Eremophila , with its gloxinia-like flowers, 
the small flowered E. mitchelli , or Sandalwood, with 
small fugaceous white corollas, E. longifolia, with spotted 
flowers, and a small shrub, very near if not identical with 
E. gnodwiniu The last was abundnnt, and its numerous 
pale-purple blossoms are sufficiently showy to make it 
worthy of culture in gardens. 
Another possible garden plant was the handsome 
Cassia pleurocarpa. Two curious shrubs or small trees 
were the Wilga ( Geijera par vi/lor a) and the proteaceeus 
Halsea purpurea . The latter was not in flower, but notice, 
able for its curious acicular foliage. I will not attempt 
any list of the herbaceous flowers, and will only mention 
the glorious feast of colours provided by masses of 
