Index 
Petasophora delphine, 88 
Petrels, 157 
Phethornis longirostris, 101 
Phalangide, 19 
Phaseolus multiflorus, 56 
Phasma, 293 
Phetdole sp., 142, 174, 176 
Phenax, 178; tail of, 178 
Pheenicothraupis fusicauda, 99 
Physa, 254 
Pigeons, wild, 39, 123 
Pigs, wild, or wari, 27 
Pine apples, 55; trees, 183, 188, 
LOT, 192, 220, 227 | 
Pinuela, the, 196, 228 
Pinus tenutfolia, 184 
Pionia lycoides, 243 
Pisoti, 94, 258 
Pita’ 47 
Pital, 44, 46, 50, 89, 118 
Planorbis, 253, 254 
Plantains, 34, 55, 97, 263 
Plantain trees, 32 
Plant lice, 57 
Platyrhynchus, 96 
Pliocene period, 204 
Plough, Nicaraguan, 185 
Polistes carnifex, 104 
Polybta occidentalis, 171 
Polyrhaphis Fabric, Thom., 290, 
291 
Port Just, veins of granite and 
quartz at, 77 
Pot-holes, 132 
Pottery, 29, 121, 131; ancient 
Indian, 121; gourd shaped, 40 
Priocnemts, 244 
Prionyrhynchus carinatus, 96 
Pseudomyrma bicolor (Guer.), 169 
Ptero-chroza, 292 
Puerta, La, 141, 158 
Pulque, 179 
Pumpkins, 56 
Quartz, 195; conglomerate, 191, 
£O5, 252, 217; rock, 198, x99, 
201; veins, 195, 200, 212 
Quequisque, 56 
Quesal, 191 
Quiches, 122 
Quiscalus, 165, 251 
Rafael, San, 187, 202 
Ramphastus tocard, 154 
Rats, 22 
Reeve, Mr. Lovell, on Mollusks, 
254, 255 %. 
Rhamphocelus passerinii, 99; san- 
guinolentus, 99 
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| Rio Frio, 32, 34; expeditions, 32; 
Indians of, 29, 32 
Rio Grande, 186; Mico, 43, 44, 
118; Plata, migration of butter- 
flies, 120; Wanks, 186, 196 
Rivers, names of, 159 
Rosa Villosa, 175 
Rosechafer, 99 
Rose, glands on, 175 
Salto, PE in32) 1135 
Salvin, Mr. Osbert, 287, 288 and . 
Sanate, the, 165, 251 
Sand-flies, 81 
San Sebastian, 42 
Santarem, wasps at, 104 
Sarracenia, 144 
Savallo, R., 30 
Savannahs, 39, 145 
Scarlet runner, 56, 57 
Schomburgk, 44 
Sclater, Dr., on the species of 
Crax, 95 
Scorpions, 21, 137 
season dry, 3; wet, 3 
Seeman, Mr., 33, 34, 94 7. 
Segovia, 150,186; townships of, 196 
Selection, artificial and natural, 
difference between, 161 
Seripiqui, R., 16 
Sharks, 4, 38 
Shells, 187, 253; of the Caribbean 
prov., 203; of the Panamic, 203 
Silkworms, 144 
Silver, 70; mine, 199 
Simpson, Dr. J. H., 61 
Sisttote, 42, 124, 251 
Skunk, 137, 192, 245 
Solenopsis sp., 142 
Sonttle, 221 
Sorby, Mr. H. C., on microscopic 
cavities in quartz, 77 
Spaniards, invasion of Nicaragua 
by, 274; cruelties practised by, 
34, 133, 276 | 
Spermophila olivacea, 223 
Spider monkeys, 91 
| Spiders, 18, 19, 21, 85, 86, 103, 
104, 137, 240 
Spiniger luteicornis (Walk.), 244 
Squiers, Mr., 276; on the Lenca 
Indians, 121 
Steamboats on San Juan, 35; on 
Lake of Nicaragua, 182 
Still, native, 181 
stone), axes, ier: hatchet, 35- 
implements, 29, 35 and u.; 
maize grinders, 131, 134 
