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SABITO BOTTOM. 
a time with my worthy friends at Content. Probably 
two thirds at least of my collection of insects were 
the result of my labours here. Yet I never found 
insects abundant except at the season named above. 
The elevation of the region may be assumed (I speak 
only from my own estimate) as ranging from 1500 to 
2000 feet above the sea. 
I may add, that during the period of insect-abun- 
dance on the Hampstead road, a large number of 
species were taken by flying in at the open windows 
of Content cottage by night. Many valuable speci- 
mens occurred in this way, not only of the crepuscu- 
lar and nocturnal Lepidoptera, but of other Orders, 
in considerable variety. Curculionidce, LongicorneSt 
and Lampyrid(E were very numerous. I am inclined 
to think that a far greater number of insects are 
active by night than by day. 
The other exceptions to the general paucity of 
insects were principally in Westmoreland. In going 
from Blueflelds 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, extending to about a mile from Blue- 
flelds, is called Sabito Bottom ; the soil here is a 
heavy sand, mixed with shingle, doubtless washed up 
by the surf in strong gales ; large masses of the Ma- 
ritime Lily {Pancratium) spring up on each side of 
the path ; a narrow belt of single trees, chiefly of the 
Sea-side Grape {Coccolohd)^ on the left hand, over- 
hang both the road and the sea-beach, and on the 
right a dark and fetid morass is hidden by great 
