BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY. 
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This however gave me a few days’ 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 sufiiciently 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 
juUJlora), 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 Hyperipte, 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 Saty rides. I also saw here 
Anolis maculatus, that zebra-marked Lizard, which 
is so common around Kingston. 
An arid plain, just behind Pedro Bluff, afforded 
