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bushes of the black-withe. This would seem an un- 
promising place for a collector, and yet it forms one 
of the signal exceptions I have mentioned to the 
general paucity of insects. Many magnificent but- 
terflies frequent this bottom, as Aganistlios Orioriy 
Charaxes Cadmus, Charaxes Asiyanax, Papilio Pe- 
laus, P. Cresphontes, P. Polydamas, P. Marcellinus, 
and other PapilionidcB, besides more common Lepi- 
doptera. And when we get up the hill, — where the 
trees are Manchioneel, Cedar ( Cedrela), Mahogany, 
Bully-tree {Achras), Logwood, &c., with the fragrant 
Wild Cofiee {Tetramerium odoratissimum), the Papaw, 
the Trumpet-tree {Cecropia), the beautiful Spanish 
Jasmines (Plumeria alba et rubra), and the rocks are 
hung with festoons of Portlandia grandiflora, gay 
with their noble tubular blossoms, — we find insects 
very numerous. Many species of Pieris, Callidryas, 
Terias; of NympJialidce ; Heliconia charitonia ; of 
Lyccenadce ; of Hesperiadce ; and not a few of other 
Orders, are at most seasons, abundant here. A large 
portion of my insect spoils was collected in this lo- 
cality. 
Pursuing the same sea-side road, but in an op- 
posite 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 bor- 
der the road, intermingled profusely with the formid- 
able Pinguin (Bromelia pinguin). The fences are 
logwood hedges, over which trail many beautiful 
creepers, as different kinds of Ipomcea, and the lovely 
