422 Dr. Bancroft on Jamaican Fishes, &c. 
existing in the two individuals J forward; the better of which in some 
respects had its upper mandible injured by the shot which killed it. 
3dly. An Hematopus, which does not quite agree with the characters 
of the only three species I find described, viz. Hem. ostralequs, palliatus, 
and niger. 4thly. A Sitta, perhaps new, killed with the Hematopus at 
Cape Gracias a Dios. The PAazton and the Sterna were shot at sea on 
the voyage thence. There is alsoa green Humming-bird, ill preserved, 
with its nest and eggs. 
In a chip box within the above are a variety of Insects, mostly taken 
in my house or garden; among them are a male and a female Curculio 
finely marked with alternate stripes of black and metallic green, and a 
very handsome species of Stygia, (Lamarck, Anim. sans vert.) probably a 
nondescript. Its larvee (of which two are sent ina phial) were marked with 
alternate bands of a brick-red colour and of black; they lived on the 
quinate leaves of a noble Ipomza with large corollas of the brightest 
crimson, and descended from these, when disturbed, by a fine thread; 
their bite caused an acute burning pain. In the same phial with 
these will be found several Spiders, two of which are black and were 
marked with red spots, though the red colour has since wholly disap- 
peared by the action of the spirit. The upper of these two, with three 
spots (formerly red) along the middle of the dorsal surface, and also a 
vase-shaped spot on the abdomen (the colour I ought to have said was of 
a bright crimson in all those spots) is what Brown has coarsely called 
the Red-arsed Spider, and is believed by all people here to be highly 
venomous, its bite affecting the system with severe general pains for 
months. It is chiefly found among timber and planks that have been 
undisturbed for a time, and hence carpenters are stated to be often bitten 
by them. Ihave sought for exact information on this head, but have 
not yet been able to procure any evidence of the fact that is positive. 
Sloane alludes to this Spider at p. 198 of vol. 2, No. 29, but as he had 
only seen one in spirits, he was not aware of its having been spotted with 
red. The lower of the black Spiders, to which the four ovaria in the 
same phial belong, is perhaps of the same species with the former, but T 
have not had the time to examine it minutely, and as yet only know that 
