BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLT. 491 



This however gave me a few clays' leisure here, which 

 I should have been loath to be deprived of. At in- 

 tervals, when the breeze had been too strong to be 

 stemmed, I had landed at one or two points of the 

 coast, and obtained a few specimens, chiefly in en- 

 tomology. A little to the eastward of Black River 

 there is a dreary, rocky, and inhospitable shore, 

 marked on the charts with the sufficiently appropriate 

 name of Starvegut Bay. While windbound here, I 

 took a walk on shore, climbing over the immense 

 masses of fragmentary rock, against which the surf 

 was beating and boiling with furious violence, and 

 shooting up ever and anon white jets of vapour-like 

 spray through the sea-worn holes. In the woods, 

 which consisted largely of the Cashaw {Prosopis 

 julifiora), intermingled with some species of Inga 

 and the great Cactus Peruvianus, — a vegetation 

 totally different from that in the neighbourhood of 

 Bluefields, — I observed a Vanessa-like butterfly, 

 of brilliant blue iridescence, and some white spots 

 near the tip of the fore-wings, which was, I doubt 

 not, Cyhdelis Hy2:)eripie. I had never met with it 

 before, and as I had no net with me, I did not capture 

 any specimens now. It was however in some abund- 

 ance ; flitted along close to the ground, in the shadow 

 of the woods, allowing an approach within a distance 

 which would have rendered its capture with a ring- 

 net an easy matter. Its manners bore some resem- 

 blance to those of the Satyridce. I also saw here 

 Anolis macidatus, that zebra-marked Lizard, which 

 is so common around Kingston. 



An arid plain, just behind Pedro Bluff", afforded 



