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have occasion to mention Bluefields ■Mountain, distingnishing 

 the loftier and more wooded region as Bkicficlds Peak. 



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

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

 sandy beach, but soon rises to a shelving, rubbly sort of cliiF, at 

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

 ing to about a mile from Bluelields, 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 

 (Paiio-atium) 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 

 light 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- 

 tertiies frequent this bottom, as Aganisthos Orion, Charaxes 

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

 P. Poli/damas, P. Murcellinus and other Papilionida, besides 

 more common Ix;pidoptera. And when we get up the hill, 

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

 bidly-tree [AcJij-as], log-wood, &c., with the fragrant wild coffee 

 {Tetramerium odoratissimiim) , the })apaw, 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 numerous. Many species of Pieris, Callidryas, Terias ; 

 of Nywphalida, Heliconia Charitonia; of Lyctpnadce, of Hespe- 

 riada, 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 Avith 

 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 {B)-o- 

 rnelia Pinguin). The fences are logwood hedges, over which tr.iil 

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

 lovely Clitoria P/vmieri ; and passion-flowers throw their feeble 

 stems and entwine their tendrils among the shrubs and herbaceous 

 plants that fringe th(! road-sides. Some small Melitcea, Cystineura 

 Mardania, and Charaxes Astt/anax ; some pretty low-flying Glau- 

 cnpidfP and Pyra/ido', haunt these lanes, and a few rare Coleoptera 

 have been taken from the shrubs. 



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

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



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