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bushes of the black-withe. This would seem an un- 

 promising place for a collector, and yet it forms one 

 of the signal exceptions I have mentioned to the 

 general paucity of insects. Many magnificent but- 

 terflies frequent this bottom, as Aganisthos Orion, 

 Charaxes Cadmus, Charaxes Astyanax, Papilio Pe- 

 laus, P. Cresphontes, P. Polydamas, P. Marcellinus, 

 and other Papilionidce, besides more common Lepi- 

 doptera. And when we get up the hill, — where the 

 trees are Manchioneel, Cedar {Cedrela), Mahogany, 

 Bully-tree (Achras), Logwood, &c., with the fragrant 

 Wild Coffee ( Tetramerium odoratissimum), the Papaw, 

 the Trumpet-tree {Cecropia), the beautiful Spanish 

 Jasmines {Plumeria alba et rubra), and the rocks are 

 hung with festoons of Portlandia grandiflora, gay 

 with their noble tubular blossoms, — we find insects 

 very numerous. Many species of Pieris, Callidryas, 

 Terias; of Nymphalidce ; Heliconia charitonia; of 

 Lycanadce ; of Hesperiadce ; and not a few of other 

 Orders, are at most seasons, abundant here. A large 

 portion of my insect spoils was collected in this lo- 

 cality. 



Pursuing the same sea-side road, but in an op- 

 posite 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 bor- 

 der the road, intermingled profusely with the formid- 

 able Pinguin (^Bromelia pinguin). The fences are 

 logwood hedges, over which trail many beautiful 

 creepers, as different kinds of IpomcBa, and the lovely 



