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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 MelitcBCB, Cystineura Mardania, 

 and Charaxes Astyanax ; some pretty low-flying 

 Glaucopidcs and Pyralidce, haunt these lanes, and 

 a few rare Coleoptera have been taken from the 

 shrubs. 



A few rods' length of the high-road at the brow of 

 Bluefields Mountain, along the edge of the dark 

 wood where grow the tree-ferns already described, 

 has also produced several fine insects. Here, and in 

 the neighbouring parts that have been once under cul- 

 tivation but are now *' ruinate," bushes of numberless 

 kinds have sprung up, many of which are in blossom 

 at all seasons. Though the flowers of most of these 

 are individually small and inconspicuous, yet from 

 their profusion they present an attraction to Hy- 

 menopterous and Lepidopterous insects ; and such 

 a wilderness of vegetation is usually more or less 

 productive to the entomologist. In this particular 

 locality I have usually found butterflies pretty nu- 

 merous, principally 'N ■ym'phalidcp. and Hesperiadcs, and 

 those of sorts rarely found in the lowlands ; but 

 from the tangled character of the "bush," and from 

 the height of the blossomed summits about which 

 they hover, they are less readily obtained than ob- 

 served. 



