40 BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
Libellulide and small Papilionide. I have procured one 
specimen of Buprestis, a most splendid thing, the only 
one found, about 1$ inches long, its general colours black, with 
corrugations filled with brilliant green, and two large gold 
spots, one on each elytron. I have also taken some in- 
teresting Carabide. Although the dry bed of the river 
is fine sand, I have not seen a single Cicindela, and, in 
Shore insects at this arid season are very rare. 
* Plants in flower are also scarce for the same reason, 
but, when rain falls, we shall be in a rich field for these 
interesting objects. Our latitude is now 28° 1’ 30" south, 
and our future route is quite undecided." 
Mr. Purptis’s appointment to the Botanic Garden of 
Trinidad. 
Our readers who have taken an interest in the botanical 
excursions of Mr. Purdie in Tropical America, of which 
those in Jamaica have been in part published in the 3rd 
and 4th volume of this Journal, will be glad to hear that 
he has terminated his mission on behalf of the Royal Gardens 
of Kew, after having visited a considerable portion, and 
especially the high mountains, of New Granada; and his _ 
merits are rewarded in his appointment, by the Colonial 
Office, to the charge of the Botanic Garden of Trinidad, 
vacant by the death of Mr. Lockhart.* His travels in 
New Granada have proved eminently successful; they 
extended from Santa Martha to Bogota, besides various dé- 
tours in his journeys from, and return to, the coast: and the 
further account of his Mission will be given in this Journal - 
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