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Lave occasion to mention Bluefields Mountain, distinguishing 

 the loftier and more wooded region as Bluefields Peak. 



Sabito. — In going from Bluefields to Savanna le mar, the 

 road for some miles borders the sea-shore, which at first is a 

 sandy beach, but soon rises to a shelviug, rubbly sort of cliff, at 

 the top of which the highway passes. The first portion, extend- 

 ing to about a mile from Bluefields, is called Sabito Bottom ; the 

 soil here is a heavy sand, mixed with shingle, doubtless washed 

 up by the surf in heavy gales ; large masses of the Jamaica lily 

 {Pancratium) spring up on each side of the path; a narrow belt 

 of single trees, chiefly of the sea-side grape (Coccoloba) on the 

 left hand, overhang both the road and the sea-beach, and on the 

 right a dark and fetid morass is hidden by great bushes of the 

 black-withe. This would seem an unpromising place for a col- 

 lector, and yet it forms one of the signal exceptions I have men- 

 tioned to the general paucity of insects. Many magnificent but- 

 terflies frequent this bottom, as Aganisthos Orion, Charaxes 

 Cadmus, Charaxes Astyanax, Papilio Pelaus, P. Cresphontes, 

 P. Pobjclamas, P. Marcellmus and other Papilionida, besides 

 more common Lepidoptera. And when we get up the hill, 

 where the trees are manchioneel, cedar (Cedrela), mahogany, 

 bully-tree (Achras), log-wood, &c, with the fragrant wild coffee 

 {Tetramerium odoratissimum) , the papaw, the trumpet-tree (Ce- 

 cropia), the beautiful Spanish jasmines (Plumeria alba et rubra), 

 festooned with the noble tubular blossom of Portlandia, — we find 

 insects very numex'ous. Many species of Pieris, Callidryas, Terias ; 

 of Nymphalid<e, Heliconia Charitonia; of Lycanadce, of Hesp)e- 

 riadce, and not a few of other orders, are at most seasons abun- 

 dant here. A large portion of my insect-spoils was collected in 

 this locality. 



Belmont. — Pursuing the same sea-side road, but in an oppo- 

 site direction from Bluefields, we come to the estate of Belmont. 

 It is very sandy, close to the sea, and on the same level with 

 Sabito Bottom ; yet it possesses some peculiarities both in botany 

 and entomology. Prickly Acacias of several species border the 

 road, intermingled profusely with the formidable pinguin (Bro- 

 melia Pinguin) . The fences are logwood hedges, over which trail 

 many beautiful creepers, as different kinds of Ipomcea, and the 

 lovely Clitoria Plumieri ; and passion-flowers throw their feeble 

 stems and entwine their tendrils among the shrubs and herbaceous 

 plants that fringe the road-sides. Some small Melitace, Cystineura 

 Mardania, and Charaxes Astyanax ; some pretty low-flying Glau- 

 copida and Pyralidce, haunt these lanes, and a few rare Coleoptera 

 have been taken from the shrubs. 



Content. — About fifteen miles to the eastward of Bluefields, 

 on the road which winds up from Black River towards Hamp- 



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