INDEX 
Acacias, 39, 122, 169, 170, 183, 239 
Acarus, 164 
Acclimature, 56 
Achras sapota, 91 
Acoyapo, 41, 42, 43, 82, 123, 140 
Acrocinus longimanus, 30 
Adiantum, 32 
Aguardiente, Ads) £07,179: To 
Aguasco, R., 158 
Ahuacatl, 84 
Airey, Sir George, 233 
Alligators, 5, II, 12, 16, 38, 125 
Alloy, 70 
Alluvial deposits, 69; gold, 202 
Amalgam, 74 
Amalgamation process, 74 
America, western side of tropical, 
food of people, 45 
American race, derivation of, 276 
Amerrique range, the, 121, 128, 
139, 141 
Ampullart, 253 
Amusements, Nicaraguan, 182 
Ancvlus, 253, 254 
Andagoya, Pascual de, 214; 
on chicha-drinking, 214 and n. 
Aneimea hirsuta, 153; oblongtfalia, 
153 
Angelot, M., on fused rock, 77 
Angrecum sesquipedale, 103 
Anolis, 259 
Antigonon leptopus, 5, 185 
Antiquities, 133; Indian, 40, 121, 
123 
Antonio, San, lode, 71, 75 
Antonio, San, Valley, 98 
AMis. 17, L42, 147, 172, 174 
Ants, army, 18, 19,90, 99; Assist- | 
ing each other, 24, 25; Attend- 
ing leaf hoppers, 18, 20, 176; 
attending scale insects, 20, 142, 
172,175 and n.; 
E753. s0raging, 17, -20, 
hunting, 90; inhabiting bull’s- 
horn thorn, 21, 169; leaf cutters, 
57, 59, 60, 65 and x., 98, 146, 
170, 171, 174; reason in, 24, 61, | 
his | 
account of Nicaragua, 214, 274; | 
ant bridge, 25; | 
communicate by scent, 22; Cows, | 
T55; | 
| 66; sagacity of, 24; stinging, 
| 90, ee 241; thrushes, 99 
| Apanas, 187 
| Aphide, E7a, 177 
| Armadillos, 39, 239 
Arrastres, 74 
| Articulata, 24, 25 
| Artificial selection, 162 
| Artigua, R., 83, 86, 115 
| Arum, 7, 47 
| Asses, 40 
| Ateles, gI, 260 
| Atlantis, 207, 200,(210, 27 ba ere 
| Auriferous quartz, 69, 70, 74-76, 
| 78,202; veins of, in Queensland, 
E76 
| Australia, 
hot winds in, 
| wasps in, 
104; 
eae 
whirtlwinds in, 
232 
Avila, Gil Gonzales de, 133, 273 
| Avocado, 84; trees, 189 
| Axes, ancient Mexican, 35; stone, 
Le eet 
|, AZLCCS 126.40. 120. 5227 790.270, 
277 
| Baldwin, Mr. J. D., 276 
| Bamboo Eel as 42 
| Bananas, 14, 3 es 55, 56, 60 
Baptism, a ae auan rite; 133 
Bates, Mr. H. W., on instinct in 
wasps, 104; on life under the 
equator, 136; on the Longicorn 
Coleoptera of Chontales, 89, 291; 
on mimetic: forms, 85) You 
mimetic resemblances, 8, 294; 
on social birds, 96; on wings of 
Morphos, 178 
Bats, 81, 137 
Beak of birds, 154 ’ 
Bees, 24, 56, 102 
| Beetles, 30, 82,98, TIO; 13712465 
habits of, 89: the harlequin, 303 
killing bug, 99; on Pefia Blanca, 
T16;° tiger, 124, 199 
Begonias, 47 
| Benito, San, 98, 106; lode, 71 
Bermudez, Don Dolores, 41, 42 
Birds, accompanying an army of 
299 
