INDEX 



Massagonistas, 162 

 Melipona bees, 47, 264 

 Mesosemia, 289 

 Midas argentatus, 108 



— bicolor, 231 



— leoninus, 65 



— rufiventer, 449 



— rufoniger, 449 



— ursulus, 64 

 Mimetic analogies, 199 

 Miseltoe plants, 106 

 Missionaries, 54, 305 

 Mixed breeds, names of, 28 

 Moira-pinima, 287 

 Monasa nigrifrons, 185 

 Money, Brazilian, 285 

 Monkeys of cacao plantations, 216 



— of Obydos, 164 



— summary of, 451 



Montaria canoe, description of, 50 



Morpho butterflies, 69, 166, 200 



Moths, 69 



Motuca flies, 205 



Mundurucu Indians, 318 



Mura Indians, 204, 211, 217 



Murderer liana, 35 



Murur^, or vegetable mercury, 288 



Myrmica saevissima, 292, 295, 299 



Negroes, free, 8, 214, 500 

 Night apes, 445 



Obydos, straits of, 159 

 CEcodoma cephalotes, 16 

 CEstrus, parasitic on man, 507 

 Opisthocomus cristatus, 79 

 Opossums, 309 



Paca, 133, 136 

 Palm-fruits, 82 



Papilio ^neides and Echelus, 80 



— Lysander and Parsodes, 203 



— Sesostris and kindred, 34 

 Pararauate Indians, 319 

 Parauacii monkey, 444 

 Parentins hill, 186 

 Pashiuba palm, 125 



Pass6 Indians, 395 

 Paullinia pinnata, 290 

 Pelopaeus wasp, 263 

 Peuririma palm, 196 

 Pine-apples wild, 196 

 Piranha fish, 295 

 Pirarucii fish, 346 

 Pium flies, 223 



Plants cultivated by Indians, 130 

 Plumieria, 252 



Puma, 118 

 Pumice-stones, 348 

 Pupunha palm, 380 



Ramphoccelus Jacapa, 10 

 Ramphastos Cuvieri, 460 



— Toco, 460 

 Rattlesnakes, 197, 302 

 Rice, wild, 130, 435 



Sand-wasps, 258 

 Sapucaya nut-tree, 45 

 Sapu-pira wood, 288 

 Saiiba ant, 16, 67, 85 

 Shells, 92, 252, 256 

 Shumana Indians, 417 

 Sloths, 273 

 Snakes, 123 



Snuff-taking amongst Indians, 221 



Species, origin of, 171 



Spider monkeys, 164 



Spiders, 71, 107, 274 



Spix and Martins, 145 



Steam Navigation Company, 227 



Striped wood, 287 



Sucu-uba, 251 



Surubim fish, 406 



Tabatinga - clay formation, 



158, 188, 206, 498 

 Tanagers, 10, 458 

 Tattooing, 319 



Tauan cigarette wrappers, 215 

 Teius teguexim, 270 

 Termites, 138, 275 

 Tetrachae, 139 

 Ticks, 195 



Tides felt on the Cupari, 317 

 Tiger-beetles, 139, 217 

 Tiger, black, 406 

 Timber trees, 287 

 Timbo, poisonous liana, 290 

 Toads, 275 



Tobacco cultivation, 215 

 Tonka-bean tree, 268 

 Tortoise-shell wood, 287 

 Toucans, 41, 460 



— use of beak of, 461 



— curl-crested, 464 

 Trabalhadores, captains of, 297 

 Tracaja turtle, 404 

 Trade-wind of Amazons, 143 

 Trees of forest, 45, 46 

 Trogons, 92, 171, 232, 462 

 Trypoxylon, 264 



Tucuna Indians, 503 



