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which Helix aspersa, and several European slugs have spread over 
the country: there were evidently vacant spaces waiting for them, 
so to say. 
The beeches along the lower margin of the hush between 
“ Elysium ” and the lake afforded an ideal sugaring ground, with 
which we sometimes included the more scattered trees on the lower 
grass-land. When going to and from our sugar we were somewhat 
put out by having to cross barbed wire fences that appeared to have 
no other object than to annoy, but at last it dawned upon us that 
they were there to define a street through the township, although 
the said township comprises but three houses, none of which abut 
upon the future street. 
We got five nights sugaring on this splendid ground and have 
no reason to complain of the results. Agrotis ypsilon ; * Hyssia 
griseipennis, Eeld., in fair numbers; * Morrisonia plena , abundant; 
* M. mutans , common; * M . vitiosa, common; * M. rubescens, Butl., 
one; * M. ustistriga , one ; * M . stipata, several; * M. dotata, one ; 
* if. longstaffi , Howes, one; * if. ochthistis , two ; * if. tartaraea, two ; 
* if. lignana , one ; * if. phricias, rather common though not generally 
considered so; * Morrisonia alopa, Meyrk., this species, included by 
Mr. Hudson (following Mr. Meyrick) in Leucania , but placed by 
Sir George Hampson in Morrisonia , had hitherto been looked upon as 
a great rarity, but at Paradise during our visit it was quite common ; 
it always reminded me of our Sideridis {Leucania) lithargyrea, Esp.; 
*if. merope , Hudson, we took a splendid specimen of this grand 
insect, it is a rather large Noctuid, blue-black with metallic green 
markings; it is considered to be a great rarity, and it certainly 
looked the part under the bright light of the acetylene lamp; 
* Leucania semivittata, several; * L. sulcana, one; * Bityla defigurata, 
fairly common; Persectania ewingi, common ; *Tmetolophotapropria, 
one; * Ariathisa (Orthosia) comma, Walk., two; * Bhapsa scotosialis, 
three. 
The list of sugar-frequenting Geometers is even a longer one than 
that of the Noctuids. * Hemerophila dejectaria, one ; * Selidosema 
panagrata, several; * Pseudo-coremia lupinata, five; * P. melinata, 
several; * P. productata, three; * Declana griseata, Hudson, one, 
a species not represented in the British Museum; * P. floecosa, two; 
a very fine Declana, with well-defined black markings, visited my 
sugar once when I was some distance from Mr. Howes, though I felt 
quite certain that it had been bottled all right, somehow I never saw 
it again; * Ipana leptomera, two ; *Gonophylla fortinata, Guen., two ; 
Asthena pulchraria, several: this is of a very delicate green when quite 
