adapted for the chase, the bushy and broken nature of the ground rendering 

 the pursuit somewhat difficult. A mongst my more noticeable captures on 

 this hunting ground were the pigmy "Blues," Lyccena Hanno, and 

 Cassius, with a very pretty Deiopeia, considerably resembling our own 

 D. pulchella, which was readily disturbed fi'om the low herbage ; towards 

 sunset several species of Thecla, whose names I have hitherto been 

 unable to ascertain, danced over the taller bushes. 



A neighbouring abandoned coffee plantation, howevei', proved to be 

 by far the most productive ; and it was here that I met with the hand- 

 some Papilio Panthonus, and the sombre Pavonia Ilioneus; the former, 

 evidently at head-quarters, flew feebly about, displaying its black velvety 

 wings, upon which the crimson spots shone boldly forth ; the latter 

 fluttered along the pathway at dusk, rarely moving during the day 

 except when disturbed, and then quickly settling, with wings erect, 

 about a foot from the ground on the stems of coffee bushes. Here, too, 

 the yellow-banded Gynecia Dirce, with several species of HipparcTiia, 

 occurred, and from a bush I captured a brown Geometra, somewhat 

 resembling our O. samhucata in shape and markings. This wood was 

 also frequented by several species of bats, perroquets, humming birds, 

 iguanas, and snakes. 



With regard to the town I may add that it possesses scarcely any- 

 thing to interest the traveller, as there is no rising ground from which 

 views of the surrounding country may be obtained ; to the Commis- 

 sioners of Sewers or the Board of Health, however, a survey of it might 

 prove a caution. 



I now proceed to an account of one of my excursions up the 

 Demerara river. In a boat, partially thatched over with paJm leaves to 

 keep out the rain, which is here at times so heavy as to be comparable 

 only to that which usually falls on a flower-show day, I started with a 

 fair wind, a flood tide, and a bush-nigger as companion : and as the pes- 

 tilential town became lost to sight — and smell, and the bends of the river 

 were passed, the country presented a truly beautiful appearance; num- 

 berless butterflies flitted about, one, Helieopis Cupido, remarkable for 

 its sluggish flight as well as for its great beauty, haunted the tangled weeds 

 along the margin of the stream, and the gay butterfly-like Urania Leilus 

 floated swiftly along, frequently dipping down to the surface of the water, 

 and myriads of Diptera filled the air with ceaseless hum, disturbing a 

 silence seldom otherwise broken during the mid-day heat by either beast 

 or bird, while the canoe of the Indian, as it occasionally glided past upon 

 the glassy surface of the stream to disappear amongst the dense foliage, 

 helped to enliven the scene. 



