y8 SABITO BOTTOM. 



a time with my worthy friends at Content. Probably 

 two thirds at least of my collection of insects were 

 the result of my labours here. Yet I never found 

 insects abundant except at the season named above. 

 The elevation of the region may be assumed (I speak 

 only from my own estimate) as ranging from 1500 to 

 2000 feet above the sea. 



I may add, that during the period of insect-abun- 

 dance on the Hampstead road, a large number of 

 species were taken by flying in at the open windows 

 of Content cottage by night. Many valuable speci- 

 mens occurred in this way, not only of the crepuscu- 

 lar and nocturnal Lepidoptera, but of other Orders, 

 in considerable variety. CurculionidcB, Longicomes, 

 and LavipyridcB were very numerous. I am inclined 

 to think that a far greater number of insects are 

 active by night than by day. 



The other exceptions to the general paucity of 

 insects were principally in Westmoreland. 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 shelving, rubbly sort of 

 cliff, at the top of which the highway passes. The 

 first portion, extending to about a mile from Blue- 

 fields, is called Sabito Bottom ; the soil here is a 

 heavy sand, mixed with shingle, doubtless washed up 

 by the surf in strong gales ; large masses of the Ma- 

 ritime 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, over- 

 hang both the road and the sea-beach, and on the 

 right a dark and fetid morass is hidden by great 



