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Mr. P. H. Gosse on the Insects of Jamaica. 
have occasion to mention Bluelields Mountain, distinguishing 
the loftier and more wooded region as Bluefields Peak. 
Sabito. — 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, extend- 
ing to about a mile from Bluefields, is called Sabito Bottom ; the 
soil here is a heavy sand, mixed with shingle, doubtless washed 
up by the surf in heavy gales; large masses of the Jamaica 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, overhang both the road and the sea-beach, and on the 
right a dark and fetid morass is hidden by great bushes of the 
black -withe. This would seem an unpromising place for a col- 
lector, and yet it forms one of the signal exceptions I have men- 
tioned to the general paucity of insects. Many magnificent but- 
terflies frequent this bottom, as Aganisthos Orion, Charaoces 
Cadmus, Charaoces Astyanax, Papilio Pelaus, P. Cresphontes, 
P. Polydamas, P. Marcellinus and other Papilionidce, besides 
more common Lepidoptera. And when we get up the hill, 
where the trees are manchioneel, cedar [Cedrela], mahogany, 
bully-tree [Achras), log-wood, &c., with the fragrant wild coffee 
{Tetramerium odoratissimum), the papaw, the trumpet-tree [Ce- 
cropia), the beautiful Spanish jasmines [Plumeria alba et rubra), 
festooned with the noble tubular blossom of Portlandia, — we find 
insects very numerous. Many species of Piei'is, Callidryas, Terias ; 
of Nymphalidce, Heliconia Charitonia', of Lpcanadce, of Hespe- 
riadce, and not a few of other orders, are at most seasons abun- 
dant here. A large portion of my insect-spoils w'as collected in 
this locality. 
Belmont. — Pursuing the same sea-side road, but in an oppo- 
site 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 border the 
road, intermingled profusely with the formidable pinguin [Bro- 
melia Pinguin) . The fences are logwood hedges, over which trail 
many beautiful creepers, as different kinds of Ipomcea, and the 
lovely Clitoria Plumieri ; and passion-ffowers throw their feeble 
stems and entwine their tendrils among the shrubs and herbaceous 
plants that fringe the road-sides. Some small Melitcsce, Cystineura 
Mardania, and Charaxes Astyanax ; some pretty low-flying Glau- 
copidce and Pyralidce, haunt these lanes, and a few rare Coleoptera 
have been taken from the shrubs. 
Content. — About fifteen miles to the eastward of Bluefields, 
on the road which winds up from Black River towards Hamp- 
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