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forests with which the converging valleys of the Tavignano and the 

 Restonica are made beautiful. Close to the station and between it 

 and the town bridge there is a curious sort of common waste ; i:)art of 

 it used is a convenient rendezvous for cattle and market ; the rest runs 

 wild with those aromatic herbs which not only make the desert smile 

 in Corsica, but convert it into a sweet-scented garden of pleasant 

 colour and refreshing odours. The railway banks looked promising, 

 but yielded next to nothing, though Mr. H. C. Lang, my companion on 

 this and many another enjoyable expedition, was good enough to 

 point me out Einnejiltele Ida, which, otherwise, I should certainly have 

 overlooked. But here, also, Pararne var. tii/elius was worn and 

 tattered, and the brambles and vineyards were mainly filled with 

 A', var. Inapidla and such smaller fry. On the aforesaid common, 

 however, there was more distinctive variety. I bagged a fine female, 

 DnjciK pawhira, almost at once oft" a thistle, missed at least a couple 

 more, and boxed also Sj/richthus mo var. therapne, reported a common 

 insect, but only found for this once by me. Next day, on the way to 

 the Tavignano Valley, I noticed many 1). pandora, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of the fort which commands the whole town on a bold 

 acropolis of rock. Along the path, too, Satyr us semele var. aristae us was 

 common enough, while Papilio iiiacJiaon, Satijrtis ctVce,and S.cordida also 

 turned up. The lovely fountain in the chestnut wood, which provided 

 us with a welcome shelter from the heat of the day, as well as a bath, 

 " splendidior vitro," also reintroduced us to the fine form of C. anjiolns, 

 but here our collecting, so far as Corsica was concerned, came to an 

 end, and next day found me at Bastia in a perfect tornado of wind, 

 which put all hopes of a last hunt on these coasts out of the 

 question, and left me looking somewhat doubtfully toward Elba with 

 mixed anticipations of the night to come in the Nice steamboat, the 

 inconvenience of which, however, was due far more to the intense 

 heat between decks than to any attentions on the part of Father 

 Ocean — notoriously a rough customer to encounter oft" Cape Corso, 

 where ihe last lights of the " Island of Unrest" at length receded 

 from my view. 



I have only been able to deal very briefly with that limited part of 

 the entomological fauna which drew me to Corsica. At this point, 

 however, I may conclude my account of this first part of my summer 

 tour with a full list of the rhopalocera observed or captured, some 48 

 species in all — a not very imposing catalogue, but containing all of 

 the Corsican- Sardinian specialities except Ktichloi' tafjis var. insularis, 

 which is, of course, an earlier insect, and K)iinipliele nuray, which I 

 have never heard of as an inhabitant of the French island. 



Papilionid.e. — I'apiUo Jwspiton, P. iiuichaou, P. podalirias. 



PiERiD.E. — Aporia crataei/i, Pieris brassicae, P. rapae, Pontia 

 daplidice (I do not remembei', nor have I noted P. napi), Leptidia 

 sinapis, (Jolias hijale, C. cdusa and ab. helice, Gonepteryx deopatra. 



Nymphalid.e. — Pyramvis atalanta, P. cardiii, Vanessa io, Aylais 

 nrticae var. ichnnsa, Polyyonia c-albinn, hsoria latonia, Argynnis elisa, 

 Dryas paphia and var. iininactilata [anaryyra), D. pandora, Satyrns 

 circe, S. alcyone, S, senwle var. aristaens, S. neoinyris, Pararye vieyaera 

 var. tiyelius, P. maera, P. eyeria, Epinephele Jurtina and var. 

 hispulla, E. tithonus, E. ida, Coenonympha anania, C. corinna, 

 C. pamphilus and gen. gestiv. lyllm. 



