392 



INDEX. 



Baptism, a pre-Christian rite, 168 



Bates, H. \V. , Air. , on instinct in 

 wasps, 135 ; 011 life under the 

 Equator, 172 ; on the Longi- 

 corn Coleoptera of Chontales, 

 Nicaragua, 379; on mimetic 

 forms, 8 ; on mimetic re- 

 semblances, 384 ; on social 

 birds, 123 ; on wasps 

 Morphos, 229 



Bathing places of humming-birds, 

 137 



Bats, 104, 174 



Beak of birds, 197 



Bees, 320 



Beetles, 34, 69, 104, 143, 173, 



of 



318 



habits of, 114 ; the 

 harlequin, 34 : killing bug, 

 127 ; on Peiia Blanca, 149 



Beggars in Nicaragua, scarcity of, 

 160 



Begonia, 58 



Bell given to church at Libertad, 

 151 



Benito, San, 126 



lode, 89 



Bermudez, Don Dolores, 48 



Birds accompanying an army of 

 ants, 20 



fertilising flowers, 130 

 - -ests, 22, 289 



; eting Heliconii, 316 



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Air., on the distribution 

 u*. 'and shells in the West 

 Indies, 267 



Blewfields river, 52, 62 

 Boulder clay, 247, 260, 291 

 Boundary question between Ni- 

 caragua and Costa Rica, 14 

 Bourbourg, Brasseur de, 357 

 Brasseur de Bourbourg, Abbe, on 



the Teo Amoxtli, 271 

 Brazil, North-east, food of the 



people of, 55 

 Brazil, migratory biitterfiies of, 



153 



Bread fruit, 4 



British Guiana, food of the people 

 of, 55 



Bromclia, 184 



Bruce on whirlwinds in Africa, 



302 



Buccaneers, 241, 255 

 Bugs, 71 



injecting poisonous fluid, 



128 



Bullock, Mr. W. , on the use of 



rattle in Mexico, 154 

 Bull's-horn thorn, 23, 218, 290 

 wasps attending 



glands of, 220 

 Bnngos, 31 

 Buprestidce, 314 

 Burial customs of the ancient 



Indians, 165 

 Butterflies, 7, 299, 382 



instinct of, 109 ; mi- 

 grations of, 152 ; in Rio Plata, 

 153 ; in Patagonia, 153 ; Mr. 

 Darwin on, 153 ; Mr. It. 

 Spruce on, 153 



CABBAGE, 70 



Cacao, 4, 116, 345 



Cactuses, 45, 158 



Calif omian pitcher-plant, 184 



Callidryas, 108 



Calliste larvata, 128 



- hivince, 128 

 Calonyction speciosum, 34 

 Calopteron basalis (Klug), 317 

 - - ricinum (Deyrolles), 



317 



Canal, interoceanic, 36 

 Candolle, Alph. de, on fresh- 



water productions, 331 

 ; Candelera, El, 329 



Canis caraibicus (Lesson), 206 

 (Tschudi), 206 



Canoe, 11 

 Cape (jrracias a Dios, 3 

 Capsicums, 70 

 Captive Indians, 40 

 Carabidse, 149, 332 

 Carbolic acid, 76 

 Carca Indians, 338 



river, 147 

 Caribbean Sea, carving on rocks. 



